What Are You Doing Right Now
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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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We are going to get a generator just for the pellet stove
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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.
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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@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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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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I know that @Grey installed radiant heat in his bathroom.
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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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I often wish that we had radiant cooling.
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@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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Here we huddle around the pool trying not to sweat.
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Actually it is nice today, with the fans on it isn't bad at all.
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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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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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@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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I just shrank it a bit.
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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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@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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Looking at that new ad on ML.... yuck. I already know Xbyte exists.
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Trying a real add now, not just a logo. Looks a little bit more normal
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@scottalanmiller said:
Trying a real add now, not just a logo. Looks a little bit more normal
Eh, just have to get used to it. I don't mind the ads just wish the thread was in the middle of the screen and the ads were offset to one side.
