Search results for query: *

Might we infer, from the pic above, that Stephen lives…in a kiln?

Ah…so not drawn to scale!

You’ll get a remarkable amount of heat off the pipe itself with that much vertical pipe surface.

Did you have livestock of some sort at one time, Burnham? Or just fencing to keep unwanted critters out? I'm regularly cutting the lower, dead stubs off of pines, both alive and dead, and when seeing one is full of fat wood, I'll chunk it to the side to be saved. I have quite a few saved up...

Perhaps you have a hotter fire on the colder days? It’s my opinion that a taller chimney will draw better than a shorter one, but that’s opinion only. No data to back it up. Drier wood will give the illusion of better draft, simply because there’s less smoke to pull. If you have an outside...

If I had it to do over again, I’d go a tile farther out. The stove loads from the left end or the front. We only open that front door a couple of times a year when there’s no fire to clean the glass. I also have the option of sliding it back (letting the pipe go further into the thimble), but...

I used ceramic tile over cement board for my hearth.

Have had two caps over the 18 years we’ve been in the house. They rust away and blow off after three or four years. Have been without for several years now.

I've never cleaned my chimney, but I went overkill when I built. I had my mason build the chimney with 13" flue liners, and with a 6" stove pipe feeding it, it just crusts, breaks free, repeat. I haven't looked down it in several years, but it's never come close to building up much at all. Every...

I wish I'd had my mason set my flue thimble at 6' instead of 30". Vertical venting with high thimble really puts off the heat. Mine's vented straight back into the wall, so little heat is gained from the pipe.

The way I look at it is that I get "paid" to haul my own firewood. I have this disorder that renders me unable to sit idle anyway, so cutting/splitting/stacking wood is no biggie.

And running ceiling fans in reverse (pulling air upward) is far better for dispersing heat.

I see that now! I was looking at it on my phone while at the hospital earlier, and couldn't make it out.

Justin, does the flue exit top or rear?

We wanted a soapstone heater, but after some research, as well as talking to a salesman, decided it wouldn't meet our needs as we like to cook on ours and the soapstone doesn't get hot enough in general for cooking.

I have a Dutchwest cast iron model, the medium, I think it is.......http://www.adamsstove.com/dutchwest_nc.htm. My glass stays carboned up regularly because I tend to burn green wood. Oh well, it burns longer.....