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- heating entire house from basement | Hearth. com Forums Home
we are looking at buying a house that has a stone fireplace in the living room and a place in the basement to connect a woodstove, the house is 1456 sq ft on one floor and the basement is same sq footage and completely open was wondering if placing a woodstove in the basement wood supply
- Will a Wood Stove Smell-up The House??? - Hearth. com Forums
The latest road block on my way to burning wood in the house is that my Wife is afraid that the whole house will smell like wood smoke - everything, clothes, clothes in the closet, funiture, carpet, the dog, etc , and if she ain't happy, nobody is happy! Will a nice modern wood stove smell-up the house?
- Mice in house. Plug hole or leave be? - Hearth. com Forums
I catch one mouse per week from the same hole in the basement wall I read somewhere online that if you know the entrance point and plug it up, it can actually make things worse because the mice will try to find a new place to enter, and then you need to go crazy trying to find the new hole to
- Rainey’s home (homestead rescue) burns to the ground
Anyone watch Homestead Rescue Raneys ranch on Discovery channel? I was watching it last night and the fathers house had a bit of a chimney fire that got out of hand and they completely lost their cabin on the homestead they have been working on for most of the show for the last few years Not
- Using HVAC fan to circulate heat | Hearth. com Forums Home
Our house is 2934sqft, pretty open floor plan, new construction, 2 5yrs old w good insulation and insulated ductwork, no basement, single level except for an ~1000sqft unfinished bonus room area over the garage
- Sweeps Library - Troubleshooting Chimney Draft Problems
Improving chimney updraftWe often hear the complaint that someone has a "bad" stove or fireplace because it smokes into the house In our experience, however, draft problems are almost never caused by the fireplace or appliance The chimney is the engine of every wood-burning system: in order for the fire to burn properly, the chimney must pull combustion air through the fireplace or stove
- Chimney Pulling Away from House and Loose Detached
You can try bracing it to the house by attaching steel brackets of some sort to the chimney and structure of the house to buy you a year, maybe, but even then i wouldnt want a couple 2x4's to hold up thousands of pounds of brick and masonry Is there just that one flue in the chimney?
- What can be done with a crawl space on an old house?
The part of the house with the non accessible crawl space has no plumbing or wiring under the floor So what if I just pumped those areas full of foam? My worry would be trapping moisture where I dont want it causing rot and mold, which I hear is a major concern Hmm, my first thought is that sounds like a lot of foam, and expensive
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