Woodstove working!
It's 18 degrees today, just shy of the forecasted high of 21. Pretty chilly down here in the shop but nice and warm upstairs.
One of the projects over the past week was to clean out a garage bay (to make room for more "stuff") and hook up an antique Ashley-style boxwood stove out there. There was already a chimney installed, complete with thimble for the previous owner's wood furnace contraption that was gone when we bought the house.
The stove was one of two Ashleys that we got from freecycle earlier this year. The bigger one went into Jeff's blacksmith shop to replace the one that was there and I knew I would find a place for the other one. Originally, it was slated to go into the first cabin we want to build out by the range, but since it hasn't been started yet, I decided to put it into the garage and hook it up, if only to burn old paper stuff in.
Caleigh and I were going down to Walpole on Saturday to pick up more chickens (also from freecycle) and stopped on the way to pick up the needed stovepipe. Total cost of this installation was $44. Chester and I installed the pipe on Sunday and immediately started burning stuff.
It's amazing how much heat a fistfull of my Mom's old daycare records (circa 1994)will throw in a two-bay garage. The little old stove is certainly earning it's keep. Just warming up the garage makes our bedroom that much warmer, since we are right above it. Every little thing we can do like this will help to lower the oil bill.
The little Ashley will also save us the cost of a paper shredder since we can now simply burn old records. We have been storing old credit card slips because we don't want to just throw them away at the dump, and we considering getting a paper shredder to safely dispose of them, but this is even better since it provides a little extra heat.
The pile of leftover wood scraps from numerous building projects will help too. There's lots of deadwood (we called it "Squaw wood" back in the Boy Scouts) all over the place here too.
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle not only helps the environment, it saves money too!
One of the projects over the past week was to clean out a garage bay (to make room for more "stuff") and hook up an antique Ashley-style boxwood stove out there. There was already a chimney installed, complete with thimble for the previous owner's wood furnace contraption that was gone when we bought the house.
The stove was one of two Ashleys that we got from freecycle earlier this year. The bigger one went into Jeff's blacksmith shop to replace the one that was there and I knew I would find a place for the other one. Originally, it was slated to go into the first cabin we want to build out by the range, but since it hasn't been started yet, I decided to put it into the garage and hook it up, if only to burn old paper stuff in.
Caleigh and I were going down to Walpole on Saturday to pick up more chickens (also from freecycle) and stopped on the way to pick up the needed stovepipe. Total cost of this installation was $44. Chester and I installed the pipe on Sunday and immediately started burning stuff.
It's amazing how much heat a fistfull of my Mom's old daycare records (circa 1994)will throw in a two-bay garage. The little old stove is certainly earning it's keep. Just warming up the garage makes our bedroom that much warmer, since we are right above it. Every little thing we can do like this will help to lower the oil bill.
The little Ashley will also save us the cost of a paper shredder since we can now simply burn old records. We have been storing old credit card slips because we don't want to just throw them away at the dump, and we considering getting a paper shredder to safely dispose of them, but this is even better since it provides a little extra heat.
The pile of leftover wood scraps from numerous building projects will help too. There's lots of deadwood (we called it "Squaw wood" back in the Boy Scouts) all over the place here too.
Reduce-Reuse-Recycle not only helps the environment, it saves money too!
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