Oh For Crying Out Loud! Updated Pics on posts #39 & 41

[Buster]

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Well at least now you can see why I couldn't just replace it with steel. It just wouldn't have looked right with the brick and the woodwork around it.

 

[debilorrah]

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What a good idea! Thanks!!

 

[Buster]

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What a good idea! Thanks!!

Is that your new ploy to get a new coop, or to get your fiance to sleep elsewhere? Or are YOU going to sleep in the new coop?

 

[debilorrah]

A new coop with built in seats so we can lose those old resin chairs that are out there now. Our coop is pretty nice, but we need seating space.

 

[maplesky7]

You've got seating space?

wha?


When I get chicks...I make my girls sit on a turned over round feeding pan....so they don't walk around and step on ALL those babies.

No room to sit....I need a bigger coop.


That's an interesting fire place you got there Buster...so it draws air in and heats it and blows it out the bottom...interesting.

My cast iron stove is just the free standing one....still gets it nice and toasty.

Then on the other side of the house is the fireplace....I think the stove gets the place warmer than the fireplace.

But when my boiler goes down...you bet I got them both burnin.

 

[Marlinchaser]

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Your cast iron stove is the heater of the two, put a small fan behind it/ to the side of it, just to get the air moving and you will get better results. Or turn on a ceiling fan if you have it.

A fireplace(without a heatalator) actually sends more heat up the flue than it puts out into your room, that is why it is only warm directly in from of the fire. And it takes a lot of heat out of the room when fire is burning out since you can not dampen the exhaust flow.

Sorry got off track again. Back to your normally scheduled Bustin on Buster for Bustin his Glass. (say that 3 times fast)

 

[Buster]

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It's a woodstove, not a fireplace. It draws air from the outside of my house and not from the heated air inside my house and blows it through the vents you can see in the top of the stove. It's more efficient than stoves that draw the heated air they just blew into your room back into themselves.

 

[debilorrah]

I had a woodstove like that when I lived in the mountains. I LOVED IT. Never needed the heat on!

 

[lil'chickies]

We've got one like that sitting in our barn. Waiting for our new house. I think it's called a kelvinator or something like that. Ours has solid double doors on front though. I still like the fireplace idea. We might do the stove in one part of the house and a regular fireplace in another! Very nice setup!

 

[maplesky7]

I knew I needed a ceiling fan. Good thing I know an electrician.

So what your saying is...the fireplace is more of an ? appeal thing and not a heating thing per say?

I thought it got drafty in there.