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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @coliver
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      @coliver said:

      @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.

      We had a woodburning furnace when I was young that could do coal. I don't think that we ever tried it, but it was pretty hard core.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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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 grew up with wood heat. But if the power went out it did a really poor job of heating the house as there was no blower.

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        • Minion QueenM
          Minion Queen Banned
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          We are going to get a generator just for the pellet stove

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller @coliver
            last edited by

            @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.

            Purely a guess on my part, but it seems like it would be very efficient because it is direct water to solid heat rather than heating the air. You spend energy heating what matters rather than focusing on heating the air at the ceiling.

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller @coliver
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              @coliver said:

              @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.

              It should, coal is far denser of an energy source.

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              • dafyreD
                dafyre
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                My family would all huddle around the wood burner at my grandparent's house (a few miles down the road) and ride out the bad weather there. I only remember once or twice having to spend more than a day or two there because of weather.

                Plus my grampa was an electronics genius. He kept his house running with car batteries in super bad weather (He had an array of car batteries that would charge while utilities were on. I remember him switching to battery power during bad thunderstorms and stuff (he ran his ham radio and the house lights off of them).

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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                  I know that @Grey installed radiant heat in his bathroom.

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                  • coliverC
                    coliver @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller 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.

                    Purely a guess on my part, but it seems like it would be very efficient because it is direct water to solid heat rather than heating the air. You spend energy heating what matters rather than focusing on heating the air at the ceiling.

                    That would make sense... all I know is sleeping on my parent's living room and kitchen floors during the winter is the best.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      I often wish that we had radiant cooling.

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                      • gjacobseG
                        gjacobse @dafyre
                        last edited by gjacobse

                        @dafyre said:

                        My family would all huddle around the wood burner at my grandparent's house (a few miles down the road) and ride out the bad weather there. I only remember once or twice having to spend more than a day or two there because of weather.

                        Plus my grampa was an electronics genius. He kept his house running with car batteries in super bad weather (He had an array of car batteries that would charge while utilities were on. I remember him switching to battery power during bad thunderstorms and stuff (he ran his ham radio and the house lights off of them).

                        Funny - That is about what I do. can go quite a while on batteries,.. just don't have enough. I'm fine without all the lights and such... nice to have that down time.

                        ETA: Being a HAM has it's perks.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          Here we huddle around the pool trying not to sweat.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            Actually it is nice today, with the fans on it isn't bad at all.

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Doing some testing here, guys, so don't be surprised if the site changes a bit. Just testing something out to see how things look, so don't freak out 🙂

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
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                                Okay, that image is way too big. But we can put up ads on the sidebar, which is what we are testing. xByte just provided us some sample images to put up for a few minutes to see how things would look.

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                                • coliverC
                                  coliver @scottalanmiller
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                                  @scottalanmiller said:

                                  Okay, that image is way too big. But we can put up ads on the sidebar, which is what we are testing. xByte just provided us some sample images to put up for a few minutes to see how things would look.

                                  Wow, that image is huge. Pushed the entire column over a bit.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
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                                    I just shrank it a bit.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      Found out that Greyhound lost @thanksajdotcom luggage. They think that it went on to San Francisco when he got off of the bus early. So hopefully they will find it soon.

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                                      • coliverC
                                        coliver @scottalanmiller
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                                        @scottalanmiller said:

                                        I just shrank it a bit.

                                        Still a bit big but I think I would just have to get used to it. I liked the text being on the center of the screen before.

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                                        • RojoLocoR
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                                          Looking at that new ad on ML.... yuck. I already know Xbyte exists.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Trying a real add now, not just a logo. Looks a little bit more normal 🙂

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