French frogs

[Cockatrice6420]

Spook is really old and needs his very warm house.

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[WalnutHill]

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Ours has minimal insulation but it makes up for it in thermal mass. The rafters in the oldest part are only 2" x 2" oak with wood lath and plaster applied directly to them, so no insulation there. The walls are built around 10 x 12 oak timbers, we added insulation in the cavities, but the windows are original and are single pane. I built storms, and that helps a lot, but it's still an old farmhouse. It's on an unheated crawl space so slippers are a must on the tile floor in the kitchen.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

This place stays pretty breezy, they keep all the windows open around here . You guys have been busy tonight, not gonna catch up

 

[LittleLakePhil]

Ours has minimal insulation but it makes up for it in thermal mass.  The rafters in the oldest part are only 2" x 2" oak with wood lath and plaster applied directly to them, so no insulation there.  The walls are built around 10 x 12 oak timbers, we added insulation in the cavities, but the windows are original and are single pane.  I built storms, and that helps a lot, but it's still an old farmhouse.  It's on an unheated crawl space so slippers are a must on the tile floor in the kitchen.

My floors are like ice in the morning...except the bathroom...when I tiled it I put a heated floor in....cats love it....

 

[Cockatrice6420]

This place stays pretty breezy, they keep all the windows open around here . You guys have been busy tonight, not gonna catch up

Dive right in!

 

[Spookwriter]

Hello fellers. Uncharted territory, is it? I guess. Am I allowed
in? I have been reading a bit in the thread.

But when it's cold, I need my big wooly sheet. And then I hide
under the bed and don't even look outside. My momma didn't
raise no Eskimo.

No sir...by the end of July, I'm a'reaching for my longjohns.

Me and the cold...we don't get along.

 

[Cockatrice6420]

Our place has the unheated crawl space, freezing wood floors (which are great in the summer), but it's an old modular on one side, newer construction on the other. The fire place is in the middle, good ol lopi cast iron retrofitted to a stand alone from insert (not as good as the earth stove when I was a kid) but it does its job. It had better or I need to bake 24/7 9 months a year.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Ours has minimal insulation but it makes up for it in thermal mass.  The rafters in the oldest part are only 2" x 2" oak with wood lath and plaster applied directly to them, so no insulation there.  The walls are built around 10 x 12 oak timbers, we added insulation in the cavities, but the windows are original and are single pane.  I built storms, and that helps a lot, but it's still an old farmhouse.  It's on an unheated crawl space so slippers are a must on the tile floor in the kitchen.

The one thing this place does have going for it is the HVAC and the way it is ducted and the flooring... ductwork runs directly under the floor in our unheated crawlspace, but it is spiderwebbed nicely to distribute radiant heat up theough the floor... flooring is the cheaper plastic coated parquet tyle, floating floor... whole house except the bedrooms have it... it's not my fave, but it is super easy to clean and heat really comes up through it well... when we have it, lol...

My floors are like ice in the morning...except the bathroom...when I tiled it I put a heated floor in....cats love it....

We have a cat that 'books' herself on tue bathroom vent... can't even tell the vent is there...

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Dive right in!

Yes
Our house was cheaply built in the 70s. It is huge, 7 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1 half bath, huge living room and kitchen. But the place is completely deviod of charater, beyond what I put on the walls We have replaced the windows, and that helped tremendously. But the wood stove no longer works, bad chimney, we pulled it out. So our house is heated almost entirely with those Sunheaters. We still have two electric radiator heaters that were built with the house, the rest no longer work.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hello fellers. Uncharted territory, is it? I guess. Am I allowed
in? I have been reading a bit in the thread.

But when it's cold, I need my big wooly sheet. And then I hide
under the bed and don't even look outside. My momma didn't
raise no Eskimo.

No sir...by the end of July, I'm a'reaching for my longjohns.

Me and the cold...we don't get along.

I think you'll fit in just fine, lol... all are welcome, it's just not everyone's cup o tea...