It’s a beautiful fireplace, here we have a lot of wood stoves (wood burners) - we place a kettle of water on the stove top; the water simmering adds humidity to the air, it gets dry here also in the winter.Here, fireplaces are most often just decoration, decoration. Fireplaces are good in a distinctly humid, even damp climate, and here the air is relatively dry, but cold (winters here are cold, somewhere in Yakutia it can be -60 C). But they do not feel very cold, because the air is not humid. Therefore, stoves with long chimneys are more often used here, something like this
That is, the hot gases after burning wood go a long way in the brick array before finally going outside. It is difficult to do this with a regular open fireplace - the smoke will go into the room, and not into the chimney. Although I have a fireplace in my house, and I built it myself, spending several months - from spring to late autumn. I finished the brick chimney in a hurry, because snow was already falling on my head. A little more - and frosts would have started and I would have had to postpone it all until next year.
True, now this fireplace is not used. But it stands as a decoration, the house is heated by a gas boiler with water batteries.
Be that as it may, when there was no electricity in the village (initially there was nothing here, even the road was far from everywhere), we often sat by this fireplace, it illuminated and warmed well. The fireplace itself, not counting the chimney, took 710 bricks measuring 210x120x65 mm. Well, I also covered it from the outside with some cheap tiles, the kind I found at the nearest construction market.
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I apologize for the mess in the room - it can't be cured, I always have a mess. There is a wreath on the fireplace, which is usually hung for Christmas - I simply forgot and then was too lazy to take it down.
There is a soldering iron nearby, because I was re-soldering some water pipes, and a bag of manure (!) because I am preparing the soil for greenhouse seedlings.
On the topic of the topic (I am chatting a lot off-topic, of course), the temperature here fluctuates from -5 C to +5 C. Snow falls, covering everything, then quickly melts, but then falls again. The roads are slippery and we have to drive with some caution.
Today it is -3c at the moment it’s been blowing snow all day yesterday amd over night. I just heard the snow plow go by, that’s good the roads should be cleared and salted/sand put on them to help melt the icy surface.
Currently it’s -3C (27F),
It’s going to warm up here Monday! Check out this forecast, I haven’t seen those temps since early November last year.
It in F for those used to Fahrenheit
Time to feed horses and chooks and clean stalls have a great day everyone!
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