VT-Chicklit
Lovin' The Homestead
W have 2 wood stoves. One is an old Dover stove (circa1985) and the other is an Old Hickory box stove (we use it very little). We have a brick chimney for the Dover. The brick chimney has our oil furnace hooked to it in the basement and the Dover hooked to it in our living room on the first floor. We have an open floor plan on the first floor and a loft that is 2/3 of the second floor. The Dover stove is some what inefficient but we use this to our advantage. The brick chimney is a 2 flue, rather large, chimney that radiates the heat it absorbes (from the inefficient Dover) back into the house. Because the chimney is in the center of the house, with nothing blocking on any side, it acts as a radiator, heating the house for hours after the stove has gone out. We, in past years, have heated our 1800 sq ft log home with 3 cord of wood and 300 gal of heatng oil. The oil also went to heat our household hot water for the year, which is also done by our furnace. Since it gets quite cold here in Vermont, I don't think this is too bad.
The other stove is in our "3 season room" and we light it only when we want to use that room in the winter, which is very seldom. That chimney is Metalbestos.
Our brick chimney was a prefabricated chimney. It came to our construction site on a flatbed in 3 foot sections. The masons that built it, do it this way so that they have work all winter. The build the sections in their shop in the winter and assemble them together in the summer. The chimney only took one day to put together on our home site. The chimney, from the basement to the top is about 40 feet tall. It was quite the thing to watch them pick each section up with a boom truck and lower it through a hole in the roof. Good old yankee ingenuity! It was also cheeper to have it done this way. We couldn't have afforded to pay 2 masons for weeks to build this chimney on site, one brick at a time.
The other stove is in our "3 season room" and we light it only when we want to use that room in the winter, which is very seldom. That chimney is Metalbestos.
Our brick chimney was a prefabricated chimney. It came to our construction site on a flatbed in 3 foot sections. The masons that built it, do it this way so that they have work all winter. The build the sections in their shop in the winter and assemble them together in the summer. The chimney only took one day to put together on our home site. The chimney, from the basement to the top is about 40 feet tall. It was quite the thing to watch them pick each section up with a boom truck and lower it through a hole in the roof. Good old yankee ingenuity! It was also cheeper to have it done this way. We couldn't have afforded to pay 2 masons for weeks to build this chimney on site, one brick at a time.
