I was hoping to move and split the wood this morning, but other issues took precedence. All I was able to do this morning was to move the good wood off the pond. I wanted to get it all (the dead stuff at the top of the tree), but that had to wait for this […]
Blog Posts About Heating
Blog posts about home heating. Read all that I have written about methods for heating a home, best practices and failures.
Collecting Firewood
Up until this morning, I’ve been on a firewood collecting spree (it snowed last night and is very wet out there right now). I’m attempting to pull at least a cord out of the woods this Winter. I think I can get it too because the more I search through the woods, the more I […]
First Winter Fire In the Fireplace
It’s been getting kind of chilly around these parts lately. The days are very nice, but the nights have been getting cold. I think we may have broken the freezing mark last night. I did see a bit of frost on the lawn this morning. What does this mean? It means that I get to […]
White Mountain Hearth Gas Log Set
I got this idea a few months ago and finally got around to getting things taken care of. In my mind, this was to be an easy project, but in reality things got a little complicated. I decided long ago that the time for burning wood in the fireplace was over. Being limited to cool […]
Cleaning the Chimney and Pellet Stove
Ah, it’s October 3 and the chill is in the air. The temperature was in the 40s last night and I couldn’t get enough of the covers. What a change from the humid 90s we were feeling just a month ago. There are a few things that need to get done in the Autumn. They […]
Fire Burning in the Fireplace
It’s getting a bit warmer out there. I think it’s supposed to be around 60 on Friday. Maybe I can get my left over wood chips from last year spread around the bases of some young trees I planted in the Autumn. Anyway, I got a fire going tonight. If you think I’m not a […]
Wood Burning Stove Update
I have some disappointing news for you. There will be no wood burning stove. Not now and probably not ever. Oh well. I called the fireplace guy yesterday and told him that I wanted to go ahead with the install. We were at the point of having my debit card in hand for the deposit, […]
DutchWest Cast Iron Non-Catalytic Wood Stove
As promised (almost), I drove down to the wood stove store today to check out the scene. I was having a little trouble with the price of the wood stove insert that I wanted and needed to see if there was anything less expensive. I also wanted to see what the free standing wood stoves […]
Hampton HI300 Wood Insert
This is terrible, just terrible. I think I have found myself walking down a very bad path. Okay, so I already told you that I am taking some trees down in the woods next to the house. This is a good thing and it’s really starting to look nice over there. I actually took two […]
Is Installing A Pellet Stove Worth It?
I received a message this morning from the heating fuel oil company we use. The person who left the message was inquiring about the low quantity of oil that we used throughout the year and wanted to update their system with whether or not we were burning wood or some other source of alternative energy. […]