Farm1 wrote:
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We installed another wood burning heater over the past winter and it has
improved out quality of life enormously as a result of selecting just the
right spot to place it.

it's nice when it works out well like that.

neither of us can tolerate the smell of smoke.
i sneeze and get plugged up with wood burning
fireplaces. even drifts from the neighbors who
burn wood at times bothers me.

it sucks because i really do like fires and
fireplaces and would love to have an efficient
wood burning stove for heat and hot water also
i'd like to do experiments with biochar and
rocket stoves... all of those become much more
difficult when you can't really tolerate smoke.


Luckily for us we don't have temps that (usually) get low enough to freeze
our water pipes but I know why you'd not want that to be happening at your
place. I think we've had our pipes freeze perhaps 4 times in about 20
years. It makes for an uncomfortable morning but that's aoubt all the
inconvenience it gives.

i don't mind the cold aspect of it nearly as much
as the possible damage to pipes and equipment, but
we've not had an extended outage yet that gets me to
think about draining tanks and putting down anti-
freeze.


songbird