We burn about a cord of firewood in our Jotul F-100 Wood stove every year. Our primary source of heat is the oil fired boiler in the basement, the wood stove is a supplemental or backup source. On those really cold nights, of which we have had a few this winter, it is nice to [...]
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I took this picture of our wood stove chimney. Once the little Jotul F100 wood stove gets hot this is the way it looks: wood stove chimney with fire going Clear. According to the US EPA certification sheet, (large .pdf file) the Jotul F100 Nordic QT puts out less than 3 grams of particulate [...] Getting a late start this morning, partly because I was up until 2 am with the furnace repair man last night, and it was not a social visit. This is the second time the furnace has gone out this winter, both times the same thing has happened. We appear to have some problem in the [...] I almost forgot this one until today when I was moving my fire wood supply from its summer drying place to its winter ready to use place. We burn about 1 cord of wood per year. This year, it is mostly a Pear tree, which I cut down last spring, and some left over Black [...] The other major heating fuel used is LP gas, or propane. This is not to be confused with natural gas, which is not stored on site, but piped into homes by a utility company. Natural gas has a slightly less than half BTU value than that of propane. Natural gas primarily consists of Methane, which [...] Something that I don’t often think about, but nearly every house needs, is some sort of tank to hold fuel. Be it propane or heating oil, it has to be stored safely and in a way that does not harm the environment. In the past, it was very common for a heating contractor to bury [...] I wrote about this in an earlier post, but I thought I could expand on the information a little bit. We have three heating zones in our house, each is controlled by a programmable thermostat. By installing the programmable thermostats, I believe we have saved about 15 to 20 percent on our heating bills. The [...] CT3600, CT3611, CT3500, CT3595, CT8602 Thermostat Filter reset addendum I purchased and installed a Honeywell CT3500 programmable thermostat last year. It works very well and I am satisfied with it, however, after a few months an annoying “Filter” message began to blink at me. Since I have a baseboard hot water system (hydronic), I do [...] When I first installed our Jotul F100 wood stove, I had a heck of a time getting a fire going. I was using the traditional fire place method of building a fire, first some news paper, then some kindling, then a few medium sized pieces of wood, strike a match and viola: Fire. Try that [...] Its that time of the year again. Before the start of every heating season, I always think it is a good idea to get the furnace serviced. This will, hopefully, prevent the startling cold wake up one January morning accompanied by that sinking feeling that the heat is out. I was a little late this [...] |
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