The Fireplace

[Blatant]

Fckn Rocks. That is all. Been burning it up for a few days straight. Nothing like a nice, proper piece of super dense wood. It really get the coals going, great heat, no smoke.

I love throwing on an overnighter and waking up to coals and simply placing another on and watching it go!

I love the feeling of true heat, can't be beat.

[RootSkier]

Worst part about living in Missoula. No fire allowed.

[Tippster]

In about 4 hours the Hickory, Oak, and Ash fire will be lit. It will not be quenched fully until Sunday Night.

Inversions are rare in DC - no worries about fire bans here.

[supermodel159]

I've got my eucalyptus on stand-by.

[AltaAndy]

the previous owner of my condo ruined my perfectly good wood burning fireplace by putting a gas log in there which looks terrible...I have yet to pony up the $100 to get it removed, but every time I think about having a fire going in there it makes me want to do it

[Tye 1on]

Boiler went out in our office building last night. 53* when I got here at 730, and ten below out. Could use a good fire about now.

[iceman]

Boiler went out in our office building last night. 53* when I got here at 730, and ten below out. Could use a good fire about now.

Sounds like Christmas just came early. Get the hell out of there!

[4matic]

I drywalled over my fireplace. I can't stand the dry dirty heat. Saved $200 on my Insurance too.

[dk_alaskan]

I drywalled over my fireplace. I can't stand the dry dirty heat. Saved $200 on my Insurance too.

WAA WAA WHAATTTT kind of ANIMAL ARE YOU??? NO man in their right mind takes away a fireplace, you sir, are no man, men love to play with fire and themselves, sometimes even in that order and even more disturbing, sometimes together.

[4matic]

WAA WAA WHAATTTT kind of ANIMAL ARE YOU??? NO man in their right mind takes away a fireplace, you sir, are no man, men love to play with fire and themselves, sometimes even in that order and even more disturbing, sometimes together.

I lived in Oregon for years and burned wood stove all the time. I love fire as much as the next guy but fireplace heat... Hate it. Can't stand it. I loathe the dirty air in the morning too.

[supermodel159]

I love getting all dirty with firewood heat. Makes me feel sooo gooood.

[knumbskull]

I lived in Oregon for years and burned wood stove all the time. I love fire as much as the next guy but fireplace heat... Hate it. Can't stand it. I loathe the dirty air in the morning too.

FYI If you open the flue the dirty air escapes out the chimney

[spanghew]

Worst part about living in Missoula. No fire allowed.

For me the worst part about living in Missoula was the lousy air all winter. I lived there twice--in the mid-70s when Horner Waldorf was still going full blast, then again in the late 80s, about the time the wood stove ban came to be.

Especially in the 70s i remember skiing at the snow bowl and watching the plumes of smoke rising in the valley, then hit the inversion and spread over everything, till we were skiing into it.

The air was nasty: more alert days than LA. I rode a bike, so I got to breathe a lot of it.

So the happpy romance of wood stoves means less than nothing to me.

[OSECS]

I drywalled over my fireplace. I can't stand the dry dirty heat. Saved $200 on my Insurance too.

Did you wall up your soul in there too ? A home without a hearth is just a house.

[Grange]

Beech is the best burning wood I collect from the Nat'l Forest. Hard Maple is the second and oak is the third. I really enjoy a fire and don't mind all the work that comes with it.

[BigDaddy]

FYI If you open the flue the dirty air escapes out the chimney

Please tell that to my wife...

I got a frantic call last weekend with the in-laws visiting that the house was filling with smoke and alarms were all going off. We have since had a flue opening demonstration and training lesson.

Did you wall up your soul in there too ? A home without a hearth is just a house.

You sound like FLW, but I agree.

[45hill]

I shut the propane off four years ago and have used wood heat ever since. Saves me a few thousand in energy bills.

[highangle]

traditional fireplaces are not so good in really cold country - they draft all the heat out of the house

these are some of the sickest 'fireplaces' i have ever seen for places where it gets cold and stays cold







http://www.thermalmass.com/index.html

[spanghew]

Nice Russian stoves. I did a remodel in Washington and hired a guy who made a gorgeous river-rock-clad small Russian stove, with a heated hearth. It had a damper that shut like a car door. A friend built a staircase that spiraled up over the mantle area to teh loft.

The woman who owned the house resented the fact that the stove was built to be efficient and fired only once a day. Radiant heat meant nothing to her: she wanted a by-god fireplace.

And that's the way she ran it: damper wide open, fire crackling away in the hearth.

I was putting in the floor when the stove needed breaking in, though, and fired it with increasing loads every day for a week. It was winter and butt-cold. I'll never forget the day I first felt the heat radiating from teh stove like it was supposed to: all the way across the room from it, it felt like the sun coming out.

And it felt the same three feet from the stove as it did twenty feet from it, once it got going. A truly amazing way to heat. That was from one bundle of wood, sticks no bigger than a forearm, in a firebox at most two square feet, fired once in the morning.

[Tippster]

Kachelofen, Liebling.

[Badger]

I suppose it's not a real fireplace, but I just got a pellet insert to put into our basement fireplace and it's pretty sweet. Fill it once a day and it just runs. Puts out a good amount of heat, but it's steadier than a wood stove - no big spikes or cooling. I may put a vent in the ceiling so the thing can heat the whole house.

[Blatant]

traditional fireplaces are not so good in really cold country - they draft all the heat out of the house

these are some of the sickest 'fireplaces' i have ever seen for places where it gets cold and stays cold







http://www.thermalmass.com/index.html

Nice Russian stoves. I did a remodel in Washington and hired a guy who made a gorgeous river-rock-clad small Russian stove, with a heated hearth. It had a damper that shut like a car door. A friend built a staircase that spiraled up over the mantle area to teh loft.

The woman who owned the house resented the fact that the stove was built to be efficient and fired only once a day. Radiant heat meant nothing to her: she wanted a by-god fireplace.

And that's the way she ran it: damper wide open, fire crackling away in the hearth.

I was putting in the floor when the stove needed breaking in, though, and fired it with increasing loads every day for a week. It was winter and butt-cold. I'll never forget the day I first felt the heat radiating from teh stove like it was supposed to: all the way across the room from it, it felt like the sun coming out.

And it felt the same three feet from the stove as it did twenty feet from it, once it got going. A truly amazing way to heat. That was from one bundle of wood, sticks no bigger than a forearm, in a firebox at most two square feet, fired once in the morning.

Kachelofen, Liebling.

i would like to know more about experiences with these types of creatures. I've never heard. The best I can do is my anthracite burning stove, that when properly dampened and adjusted the only way to regulate the absurd amount of heat, regardless of temp outside, is to crack a door in the front and back to create a proper draft. The amount the door cracking depends on the external temp.

Coal is the hottest shit I've ever dealt with. I've dampened a full pack on sunday night to return friday to a cabin that has an acceptable temp, after several days, all the while the week past was in the 20's.

I'm a big fan of coal from my childhood and my parents. Wish i had something to do with it now.

[iceman]

Highangle and Tipp came strong but imo Tulikivi makes the best fireplaces in the world, 100% soapstone and either off-the-shelf or completely custom.

For metal woodstoves I have a Jotul and I wouldn't trade it.

[axebiker]

Nothing like a nice, proper piece of super dense wood.

...and that's what she said.

[BigDaddy]

For metal woodstoves I have a Jotul and I wouldn't trade it.

Seconded... My Jotul puts out better than a drunken Catholic girl on Spring break in New Orleans...