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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 09 2011 : 5:43:32 PM
I am so excited. We got our wood stove installed this afternoon. I can't wait for winter and I'm stocking up on graham crackers, marshmallows and Hersey bars! Oh yeah!!
I put pictures up at the blog and you can kinda see the floor I just laid and the stove pad that I built to go under it with the help of my DH who cut the tile and the hardybacker board.
Mary Beth
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 06:02:24 AM
Kathy, the soapstone sounds beautiful!! I am so looking forward to cold weather just to try ours out! :-)
Mary Beth
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| IdahoShamrock |
Posted - Sep 18 2011 : 9:55:18 PM
Congrats, Mary Beth on your stove! We have heated with wood for 25+ years and love it. Well, despite the labor of cutting wood, splitting,stacking,storing,hauling,ants/bugs in the wood...etc.
We recently replaced our stove with a Kuma wood stove. They are locally manufactured and are eco-friendly. We were able to find a local stone company to cut soapstone to fit the top of our stove and that makes it very attractive.
Wood heat is somewhat high maintenance, as far as household chores go, ie: dusting and vacuuming. But nothing is better than the cozy feeling a wood stove brings to your home.
Farmgirl #2125
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| Room To Grow |
Posted - Sep 18 2011 : 06:30:34 AM
Mary Beth, Thanks for that info. I will check it out. Not sure where we are going to put it in the meantime.
Deborah
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 17 2011 : 6:51:16 PM
Congrats Deborah!! I'll pass on one thing we found out. Ourinsurance company didn't raise our rates because we got professionals to install the stove. They weren't sure they would even cover us if we didn't have it put in by people who were certified. So you might check with your insurance company before you install it!
Mary Beth
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| Room To Grow |
Posted - Sep 16 2011 : 3:03:02 PM
well we are going to pick up our wood stove this weekend. It is not that big but we only have a 900sq. ft house. It has reclaimer on it and it by itself is 120.00...and 5ft of pipe. We are getting the whole lot for 275.00 I thought that was a deal. I know we will have to get about another 3-400.00 worth of other stuff like, pipe and heat board...But I thought it was a great deal anyway
Deborah
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 14 2011 : 06:27:53 AM
Brandee, so far, we haven't had that problem here in the winter, although this HAS been a really strange year, so hopefully we won't experience that.
Diane, they make really small ones too - half the size of that one - for smaller areas. And thank you for such nice words about the blog! :-)
Mary Beth
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www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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| Diane B Carter |
Posted - Sep 14 2011 : 05:55:08 AM
Thats the stove I've aways wanted. I will never have one because we have no room for one but it sure is a beautiful one and I know you will enjoy it for many many years to come. Lucky you. Congratulations! Your blog is beautiful too. |
| homsteddinmom |
Posted - Sep 14 2011 : 05:37:13 AM
the only thing bad about wood stoves besides the mess is if you are in a burn ban. When you are in a burn ban you cannot burn your wood stoves. We are in East Texas and more than once during the winter we have been in a burn ban so had to find alternitive heat sources. We have a wood stove but looking into a pellet stove as they are cool burn out the flue so no sparks! I am like you we get tons of wood for free from dh work but i cant replace my house or the next 1000 acres...lol
Homesteading Mom in East Texas. Raising chickens, Rabbits and goats here on my farm! |
| HealingTouch |
Posted - Sep 13 2011 : 7:26:23 PM
Mary Beth it is a beauty. I miss my wood stove. We had a Jotul for 25+ years. It was wonderful. I cooked on it and it was so warm in our house and always smelled so good because something was always cooking. Never had a fire. Had some dust but it was a good airtight stove and worked wonderfully. We still have the stove but we replaced it with a propane stove for a backup if the electric goes out. It looks like a wood stove but isn't nearly as warm. We just got to old to deal with the wood. Enjoy!
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| Room To Grow |
Posted - Sep 11 2011 : 5:12:13 PM
I was just looking on the craigslist for a used woodstove. I found a few that were almost new and good prices. I hope someone emails me back that I emailed
Deborah
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| naturemaiden |
Posted - Sep 11 2011 : 3:04:01 PM
MaryBeth it's beautiful! simmer a nice pot of soup on it
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| sherrye |
Posted - Sep 11 2011 : 07:34:12 AM
you will have happy warm cozy winter days for sure. we love our stove. sherrye
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| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 11 2011 : 06:26:42 AM
Thanks for the advice, Kimberly. We have lots of trees and a friend of mine is wanting us to come cut down a boatload of trees at her house. We should be good for a long while in logs!! :-)
Mary Beth
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| Lieberkim |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 9:40:35 PM
I've done wood and I've done pellets. Pellets are okay. A lot less mess to deal with BUT the heat is not the same. Honest to goodness wood heat warms you to the morrow of your bones and feels so good. Pellets just warms you up. If I had my choice, I'd choose wood but where I am it's not a good option.
Excuse the mess & the noise, my children are making happy memories |
| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 7:13:58 PM
Winnie, come on down!! ;-)
Melody, I know the mess, but consider that a minor issue considering heat when there is no electricity!! I've had a wood stove before - a long time ago - and it was the old Ashley heater. Remember those? They were big, brown monsters that stood as tall as a small human being. Oh and ugly. Bleh. But boy did it heat. However, there was the mess. I am looking forward to using the pellets once in awhile because they are supposed to be cleaner burning, but we have a LOT of wood to get rid of too.
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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| knitnpickinatune |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 5:23:28 PM
Congrats on the wood stove-been wanting to install a clean pellet burning stove for a few years now. I'll take a peek at your blog & see what it looks like. 
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| melody |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 5:05:55 PM
We have a Vermont Casting wood stove in our living room. It's a lovely deep chocolate brown. We have had it for quite a few years and before that a wood insert in our fireplace in our old house. I am dreading the mess this winter, but our heating bill is down to a 1/4 of what it was before we had ours installed.
You will LOVE wood heat, as it warms you to your bones....but the mess---YIKES! Dust, dust, and more dust...
Melody
Farmgirl #525 |
| Lieberkim |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 4:47:49 PM
oooooh I'm jealous. Lucky you! I love wood heat and miss it very much. Enjoy it with your smores.
Excuse the mess & the noise, my children are making happy memories |
| Red Tractor Girl |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 4:27:50 PM
Mary Beth- It is a beauty!!And you did a fabulous job on laying the tile floor too. I bet you and family will enjoy the cold winter months more now that you can gather around this central source of heat AND make s'mores at the same time!!! If lived closer, I might invite myself over!!!
Winnie #3109
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| Betty J. |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 4:09:44 PM
I had my woodstove removed about four or five years ago. It was such a dirty mess, but I am glad to say the hole in the roof and ceiling have been repaired and all is well. I also got a new heat pump installed two years ago and that has worked well also. If we have a power outage, I'm probably toast but hopefully I'll outlive the power outages.
Betty in Pasco |
| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 3:55:29 PM
Kris, you could call your fire department to ask them who they recommend. It just happens that we have a group of firefighters who went into business together and started the company that sells and installs wood stoves and fireplaces and cleans the chimneys as well. Hope your firemen can steer you in a good direction!
Mary Beth
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www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 2:23:56 PM
I just read your last comment and that's a great idea about the baking soda. So would I just call the fire dept. to get them to come out to check the chimney before we burn any wood?
Kris
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 2:22:01 PM
How exciting! It's so pretty. And I bet y'all will be toasty warm this winter. I am looking for a wood stove for us. A friend has one but it's up in the woods behind her house wrapped in tarp. She will have to get some big strong men to get it back up front. She just wants $250.00 for it and it's big. We have been gathering wood. I do not want my heat pump to ome on at all this winter. I wish you lots of warm cozy cuddly nights with lots of s'mores!
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| Okie Farm Girl |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 08:08:45 AM
A cast iron tea kettle!! Yes. I need one. Going to hit the antique stores this week! :-)
Nancy, thanks for the kind words about the blog!
Karen, the fire fighters who installed the stove said that they will come every summer to completely clean out the stove pipe and the entire insides of the stove for $100. I think that we are going to take them up on that. They also said to keep a box of baking soda next to the stove and if there ever is a fire, to throw the box into the stove where it will burn the box and the soda will poof up the chimney and put out any fire. He said not to use those dynamite looking things you can buy for that purpose because they will ruin your stove and stove pipe.
Mary Beth
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www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
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| Lady Woodworker |
Posted - Sep 10 2011 : 07:48:42 AM
Congratulations Mary Beth,
Having a woodstove is wonderful. I love mine.
Diana, I am so sorry to hear about your fires.
It is hard when something so enjoyable goes so wrong.
Diana makes an important point about fires and, while I can't speak to why chimney fires happen to different people, I wanted to share with you what we have --and do-- for chimney fire prevention.
We have this thing that looks like a big snarly mess of broken springs. It is mounted on a long, fireproof chain that rolls around a pulley at the top of our chimney and another pulley at the bottom. the chain is twice the length of our chimney. This chain and pulley system allows us to pull the ball of snarled steel up and down the chimney. It hacks away built up creosote on its way up and down. The snarled ball stays in the base of the chimney (in the cellar) when not in use.
Twice a year (or a bit more), I climb up on the roof to make sure the ball comes all the way up when my husband runs the system from the cellar. This also gives me a chance to clear the upper pulley of creosote build-up.
Once a month during burning season (usually November to April here) my husband will go down into the cellar and run the "scrubber" up and down the chimney to clear it of new build-up and to keep it as clean as possible. He collects shovel-fulls of creosote shards every time.
In addition, we burn those anti-creosote logs, which we find helpful--as a support to our monthly scrubbing--not as a substitute.
Not sure where you can get these systems. My husband purchased ours decades ago but I did see a Maine company selling them at the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine a few years ago. If you're interested, you may be able to find a source if you Google Common Ground Fair.
Happy wood-stoving. I hope you enjoy it and I hope you don't have any problems with it.
All the best,
Karen
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