Toasty Warm

With the colder season well on its way, we decided to check with our local fireplace store for some replacement parts for our wood stove.

 

Jamie & I went to the fireplace store and wow did we get an education on our wood stove.  The woman was extremely informative on our stove and gave us lots of information.  We decided to go home and check certain parts to make sure they were working properly before we bought any replacement parts.

 

Well, lets just say our old wood stove was shot.  The main component needed to be replaced and would have cost over $1000 to fix. 

 

Old wood stove

Old wood stove in parts

 

The old wood stove was super heavy and Jamie had to take it apart to get it out of the house.  He decided to take the parts and old stove down the street to the scrap yard.  The scrap yard took the old stove and in return we got a check for $34.  Not much but still something.

 

Now we needed to go back to the store and buy a new wood stove.  We choose a much simpler design.  It is also is much easier to operate since it only has one lever for air flow.  We also got a blower which is very handy. We use the blower in the morning to warm up the kitchen and dining room quick for the kids while they eat breakfast.

 

Jamie & I picked up the stove on our trailer and our friend Jeff was nice enough to come over and help Jamie get it in place, since this stove was really heavy too.  Since Jamie is handy we were able to connect the piping to the stove ourselves.

 

This is our new stove.

 

New wood stove

 

We had to do a series of fires to condition the stove, which went fine.  The stove is now being used daily as the temperatures have dropped.  As we did with our old stove we plan to heat the whole house with the stove every season.

 

All summer long we worked on harvesting wood and have what we hope will be enough for this years winter.  We are very pleased with the new wood stove.  It is defiantly more efficient as we use less wood than we were before.  We have been keeping track and we use about 7-10 pieces per day to keep the house warm.  In Jamie's and the kids opinion hot since the house is usually around 80 degrees.  Of course the dogs and I like it.

 

I'm glad that we were able to get a new stove, since the other one was so unsafe.