That didn't take long for the forecast to be wrong. Sitting at -18 C or -1 F for the moment. Poplar in the reactor.
Yeehaw! Hit the warm up! -12 c feels -17 c or 11 f feels 1 f. I was wondering why the hall temp was 73 and my draft somewhat lazy.
That moderate weather didn't make it here yet. Currently -26 C feels -33 C, or -15 F feels -28 F.
[ATTACH] Not sure how you can utilize it? Your state must have something similar.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] Supposed to warm up tomorrow...can't wait.
We seem to be getting hit more than usual with arctic systems here this year. October was decent, November was cold, December had about 8 nice...
I wish! Actually don't mind -10 to -20 C all winter long, but this colder stuff grinds on a guy after a while.
Found a little more to the story... I had tinkered with the stove a long time ago, as the primary air plate underneath was a bit loosey goosey....
I thought water or steam had the potential to crack everything up?
They sure can! In the fall around mid or late October, they switch up the diesel/heating oil to winter blend. We've never had heating oil gel (far...
I gave a great cleaning top to bottom, and with mirror and flashlight determined the double wall pipe is same as it always was. The class A, same...
Sitting at -34 C feels -38 C, or -29 F feels -36 F currently. Running the oil burner for now. What a thirsty girl!
I guess after a few years a guy can get forgetful or complacent about things. I'm going to pull the inside double wall pipe out to examine...
The chimney cap still has the normal type deposits it usually ends up with. It hasn't been cleansed with fire.
Would a chimney fire be painfully obvious? I still had icicles hanging from the cap, still yellow icicles above the air vent thing on the chimney,...
Wow, was that exciting in the butt cheeks pucker way! Long story short, I loaded the stove, was tinkering on the oil furnace, took a break to...
