What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Minion-Queen said:
I need an office that looks/sounds like that... and is warm enough to use.
VERY easy to get large office space in this style down here with the pool, fountain and everything.
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Yeah not moving out of the country. Just need to move south.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Here is the fountain that I am sitting beside:
That looks and sounds very relaxing.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Don't know the details but between the 1500s and the 1700s. From the construction I am pretty sure it is on the latter side. Probably early 1700s. It is right downtown in the oldest European colonial city in the New World, so everything down here is ancient.
I'm amazed at how well taken care of it is. It doesn't look like there is a lot of wear on the building from the pictures you've taken.
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A farmer friend of mine built a large wood burning stove outside his barn and uses ducking to pipe the heat into the building. It's amazing, he can keep that building at 70 degrees all winter long, and the wood use is surprising small for the amount of space he's heating.
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I love wood heat we have many people that heat their houses and barns at the same time doing the outside woodstove.
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That's a right good idea! I have an indoor woodburner... It's got an electric blower on it, so that it will heat that room and the back of the house once the fire gets hot enough. If the power goes out, we can still cook and huddle together in the red room (that's what we call it... all the carpet is a deep red color).
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@dafyre said:
That's a right good idea! I have an indoor woodburner... It's got an electric blower on it, so that it will heat that room and the back of the house once the fire gets hot enough. If the power goes out, we can still cook and huddle together in the red room (that's what we call it... all the carpet is a deep red color).
That's one thing I don't have with the coal furnace. It doesn't work very well if there is no power. We have two old fireplaces upstairs that we can use if it comes down to it.
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I miss having a really wood stove. simple and reliable. We had one in the house I grew up in,.. cooked on it, lots of family time around it. It was in the basement so if the power went out, we would retreat there. it was a 4 bedroom house, my room was on the 3rd floor.
Now, we have a ventless Propane fireplace upstairs, and some day I'll add one in the basement. if I could, I'd use an external wood burner and radiant floor heat...
Next house... maybe.
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@gjacobse said:
I miss having a really wood stove. simple and reliable. We had one in the house I grew up in,.. cooked on it, lots of family time around it. It was in the basement so if the power went out, we would retreat there. it was a 4 bedroom house, my room was on the 3rd floor.
Now, we have a ventless Propane fireplace upstairs, and some day I'll add one in the basement. if I could, I'd use an external wood burner and radiant floor heat...
Next house... maybe.
I'll be installing coal and radiant floor heating in my next house if it doesn't have it already. Radiant floor heating is the best, as in comfortable not sure about efficiency.
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I've got a crawl space under parts of the house... I wonder how much work it would be to get some radiant heating put in under there... and tie it in to my furnace and/or stove...
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@dafyre said:
I've got a crawl space under parts of the house... I wonder how much work it would be to get some radiant heating put in under there... and tie it in to my furnace and/or stove...
It isn't that difficult we did my parents house. The basement is unfinished so we installed it in the ceiling of the basement. The big thing is you need to keep your loops under a certain length or else the far side won't get heat.
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@coliver Cool. Our house only has about 1/3 of it that would actually benefit from the radiant heat, I think, so we probably would only do a small section of the house. Keep that area a little warm and the area with the wood burner a nice and balmy 86 degrees, lol.
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@dafyre said:
@coliver Cool. Our house only has about 1/3 of it that would actually benefit from the radiant heat, I think, so we probably would only do a small section of the house. Keep that area a little warm and the area with the wood burner a nice and balmy 86 degrees, lol.
A bit less work but they sell pre-insulated piping that is already configured to be setup in a circuit. This sits in one bay and you can connect as many as you want (up to the length limit of radiant floors).
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@coliver said:
@gjacobse said:
I miss having a really wood stove. simple and reliable. We had one in the house I grew up in,.. cooked on it, lots of family time around it. It was in the basement so if the power went out, we would retreat there. it was a 4 bedroom house, my room was on the 3rd floor.
Now, we have a ventless Propane fireplace upstairs, and some day I'll add one in the basement. if I could, I'd use an external wood burner and radiant floor heat...
Next house... maybe.
I'll be installing coal and radiant floor heating in my next house if it doesn't have it already. Radiant floor heating is the best, as in comfortable not sure about efficiency.
Why coal over pellet or other type? I'm rather surprised by the number of people that still have coal.. neat,..(interesting) but surprised.
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At least around here Coal is significantly cheaper than Pellets. It was barley above the cost of buying wood (which is still the cheapest).
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@gjacobse said:
@coliver said:
@gjacobse said:
I miss having a really wood stove. simple and reliable. We had one in the house I grew up in,.. cooked on it, lots of family time around it. It was in the basement so if the power went out, we would retreat there. it was a 4 bedroom house, my room was on the 3rd floor.
Now, we have a ventless Propane fireplace upstairs, and some day I'll add one in the basement. if I could, I'd use an external wood burner and radiant floor heat...
Next house... maybe.
I'll be installing coal and radiant floor heating in my next house if it doesn't have it already. Radiant floor heating is the best, as in comfortable not sure about efficiency.
Why coal over pellet or other type? I'm rather surprised by the number of people that still have coal.. neat,..(interesting) but surprised.
Expense, at least mostly for us. Coal is significantly cheaper around here and from everything I've read produces more heat per unit then pellets. Wood is less expensive then coal but the amount of labor that goes into cutting wood is staggering. We also pre-buy our coal with two other families so we get an even cheaper rate/ton.
I hate burning it... I really do it isn't a great industry, it pollutes like crazy, there is dust and coal ash everywhere... but for the price of the furnace and coal it makes little sense, for us, to do anything else.
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@Minion-Queen said:
At least around here Coal is significantly cheaper than Pellets. It was barley above the cost of buying wood (which is still the cheapest).
Have you noticed using more pellets then you did coal? Everyone I talked to says you need ~10-15% more pellets then you did coal.
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Yes we do need more when it's really cold but less when it's a cool night that we just need to take the chill off. And it only takes about 5 minutes to get the stove to heat up and have it kick on the blower to heat things up.
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@Minion-Queen said:
At least around here Coal is significantly cheaper than Pellets. It was barley above the cost of buying wood (which is still the cheapest).
The funny thing is my brother is in Maine. He can get pellets for dirt cheap but coal is exorbitant.
