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- The heating of old houses | Hearth. com Forums Home
The oldest portion of the house was built in the 1850's and the large portion of the house was added on in 1906 The old portion of the house consists of what used to be the main house now our kitchen and a summer kitchen, both of witch have a thimble in the wall but the original chimneys have been torn down below the roof line and roofed over
- Tips on if Your pellet stove is burning lazy and or getting smoke in . . .
The last time I was at that house MY SELF for a full service about 3 years ago it had a wood stove cap on it We took it off and put on a wood stove cap and ran the stove Worked good 4 hours latter she calls doing it again I tell her to leave the stove on I go out there put a Magnahilic gage on it Poor pressure and little change with air
- Firewood Pass-Thru Door Design | Hearth. com Forums Home
The good thing is we have a new blaze king now so I only need to make 1-2 trips a day for new wood My wife showed me a picture last week of a house with 2 little doors from the garage into the house, one was directly into the walk in pantry and the other was right next to the wood stove I'll post it if i can find it, it sparked my imagination lol
- mini split usage in 2-story home with small bedrooms on second floor
In your house, that'd be less likely to happen, unless you have a habit of leaving windows open while running AC There have been many drainage issues tied to minisplits, but usually any experienced installer is aware of these sortcomings, and then tend to be cautious in their drain line slope and planning
- Sweeps Library - Direct Vent Installation Diagrams - Hearth. com Forums
This causes negative air pressure in the house, which can draw cold air in through other openings In worst cases, this depressurization can drag poisonous exhaust gases back down the chimney into the breathing space The Solution: Bring in combustion air through the same pipe used to vent the exhaust In Direct Vent installations, combustion
- Clothes dryer heat recovery heat exchanger - Hearth. com Forums
This is a double win in that you get the free heat from both the hot air and heat of vaporization of the water, and you also keep the dryer from pulling cold outside air into the house that needs to be heated by your furnace You can check my numbers, but I get that a system like this could cut total clothes drying energy (electric and HVAC) by
- Firewood wall pass-through (air lock) | Hearth. com Forums Home
Jotul Oslo 500, Rika Integra II, Brave splitter, Nissan Leaf, Solar PV, Ground-source heat pump, fixer-upper house with a few acres and garden; dogs; cat, sons, and a very tolerant wife “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went ”
- Wanting to improve draft | Hearth. com Forums Home
Interestingly, my house is down a hill a bit Not a massive hill with elevation or anything, but the slope from the street going down towards the house has always been a bit annoying for a bunch of reasons And also interesting, we do have a fairly large red maple to the right of the house
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