Good evening NY.
Ken, you are soooo bad!

 

Good evening all. Happy New Year!

 

todays progress.....we bought a bed.

does anybody have a good place to buy a gas fireplace? not looking for an insert, the house does not have any fireplace and i want to install a direct vent natural gas unit (the house is already running on city gas).

 

Aaron, I have a good place that is a local (not a chain) up here by me. Not sure if you want to drive an hour + to get one.

 

OK Ken, the Pats won the game, but Buffalo had them on their heels the 1st quarter. But when you get intercepted and then the opponent drives to score a touchdown each time, it makes it difficult to win.

 

Happy New Year New York and to all that stopped here today.

 

Evening Rick, thanks for stopping by

 

Evening New York..

 

not really, but i am striking out in this area. i know of a few places back home, but i was hoping to shop price a little and maybe get a better price away from CT. maybe if i find something i like i could just call your place and see if they could beat the price and ship it without me actually driving there

whats the name and location?

 

Here is the link to their website that has all of the info. I have purchased two wood stoves from them. The first one could handle the heat output, but it was too small to hold an overnight burn which is what I needed and that is why we got the second one as it was the next size up. We burn wood 24/7 from mid November to the end of March.


Heritage Fireplace and Stove Shoppe

 

my partents heat the entire 3000square foot house with a vermont castings Defiant (the old one, that is actually BIG...new defiants are half the size) and that thing is absolutely amazing! we will burn that stove non-stop starting in the fall, and we have to let it die out occasionally to clean the ashes out. i think they spent $50 last winter on oil, wich was probably just for hot water and not for heat.

i would love to have a wood stove, but the only open flue in the chimney would require me to install it in the kitchen (was used for an antique gas stove, probably a wood fired oven back in 1925 when house was built). also, the property we have doesnt have enough falling branches or trees to feed a stove, so we would have to buy wood. the house is already on natural gas so there is no cost involved in hooking it up, and the direct vent units are 80% or better for heat efficiency and require almost nothing to install. the house is a nice antique colonial....but it just doesnt feel right without a fireplace, especially with the rather large family room at 23'x12'.

thanks for the link!

 

Good evening, all.

Anyone still out?

-JR

 

I am in and out JR.

Aaron, I can fully understand where you are coming from. I have a log home that we built 11 years ago and IMO you can not have a log home without some type of open flame heat source in it. We have a Pacific Energy wood stove and just love it. My parents have burned wood since the late 70's up until this year. I burn around 12 face cord of wood a winter and a log load has a minimum of 15 on it. So I end up buying the wood and after 4 years I end up with a 'free' winter.

Here is a picture of our newer one burning away.

 

Good evening, Neil.

Tim said hello, and Happy New Year.

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im still here! bored out of my mind. drafting remodeling projects for a house i dont officially own or live in yet.

neil, thats a nice sized stove. is the cord for a blower, and do you use it? we never had a stove with a blower on it but i always wondered if it was worth it.