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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
- Straw bales for exterior insulation? | Hearth. com Forums Home
Context: 78 YO house, 2 ft thick uninsulated masonry walls, full daylight basement with walkin on north side (bummer), massive concrete foundation with basement stairs, laundry room floor, and two porches all poured along with the foundation The front of the house faces south, but the south
- Tips on if Your pellet stove is burning lazy and or getting smoke in . . .
If you are getting smoke in the house or you stove just don’t seem to be burning like should Check the door seal and latch for a tight fit Check the ash pan for shut tight and latched If all doors seals are good and latched MOST pellet stove are Negative air (Inside of the Firebox is
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
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