After paying more than $225. month for heat last winter, I was done. A bunch of money went into insulation & my heating bill went UP. So, this year, I'm taking matters into my own hands.
We bought a cheapie woodburner. It's going into a nearly 100 year old wood-frame house with the original wood floors. My wife, having spent time as an EMS, required we go overboard on the wall/floor protection. Me, having never built squat from absolute scratch, (alone) and never having done tile work, think this thing really needs help.
However, I'm into functionality, not form, so it came out OK.
Now, to run the chiney before the weather turns cold (the leaves are begining to change)
Bad phone shots but an idea...
Tonight, mostly completed with the stove on it
Yesterday, as the grout was drying
Shaped to fit the uneven corner walls.
I hope to see gas bills under a hundred all winter.
We bought a cheapie woodburner. It's going into a nearly 100 year old wood-frame house with the original wood floors. My wife, having spent time as an EMS, required we go overboard on the wall/floor protection. Me, having never built squat from absolute scratch, (alone) and never having done tile work, think this thing really needs help.
However, I'm into functionality, not form, so it came out OK.
Now, to run the chiney before the weather turns cold (the leaves are begining to change)
Bad phone shots but an idea...
Tonight, mostly completed with the stove on it
Yesterday, as the grout was drying
Shaped to fit the uneven corner walls.
I hope to see gas bills under a hundred all winter.