Tropical Storm Gear Preparation Check ✅ (1 Viewer)

[Reefahholic]

Anybody know a good place to buy 30-40# propane tanks? This bad boy can run inside the house. You can run 1lb cylinders or buy a 12’ hose and put some larger cylinders outside which is what I’m doing. I refuse to be cold this winter if we have another grid failure.

 

[TX_Punisher]

Ace hardware for 40lb bottles. I’d still run a CO detector in the room where that heater will be running.

 

[Tangs]

Yes I believe you can never be too careful. You guys should move to Tampa. Ever notice that they seem to miss everything.

 

[Reefahholic]

Ace hardware for 40lb bottles. I’d still run a CO detector in the room where that heater will be running.

Yes sir. You know it.

 

[Reefahholic]

 

[Seaworthy Aquatics]

Very nice, this will certainly be my next step.

 

[Reefahholic]

 

[Tangs]

Yes heating can be dangerous. I use my wood stove lots and lots. I probably will not use it nearly as much now with my new furnace. I get my wood basacly for free but I do not trust it. If I am burning wood I want to be able to keep an eye on it. If not the damper is closed and I have a window fan blowing air on it to cool it down.

 

[Reefahholic]

Yes heating can be dangerous. I use my wood stove lots and lots. I probably will not use it nearly as much now with my new furnace. I get my wood basacly for free but I do not trust it. If I am burning wood I want to be able to keep an eye on it. If not the damper is closed and I have a window fan blowing air on it to cool it down.

If I could have somebody set up a wood stove I’d do it in a heartbeat.

I want one like this:

 

[Cody]

If I could have somebody set up a wood stove I’d do it in a heartbeat.

I want one like this:

I just cut a large hole in my roof and ceiling so the fire in my living room can vent out. All tile floors too so they won’t catch on fire.

 

[Reefahholic]

I just cut a large hole in my roof and ceiling so the fire in my living room can vent out. All tile floors too so they won’t catch on fire.

That’s perfect!

Can’t we just shut the door? Or will it not heat with the door shut??

 

[Cody]

That’s perfect!

Can’t we just shut the door? Or will it not heat with the door shut??

Nah, fire doesn't work if the door is open.

 

[Reefahholic]

Nah, fire doesn't work if the door is open.

The pipes don’t heat up or what! Why do they put the doors? To close them when the fire is out? Lol

 

[foos]

If I could have somebody set up a wood stove I’d do it in a heartbeat.

I want one like this:

As part of covid relief they added EPA rated wood stoves to the energy rebate of 26%. The ones that qualify are the ones with double burners and what have you that burn longer and cleaner giving you more heat per log. If you have a fireplace they have wood stove inserts that qualify for the rebate.

 

[Tangs]

I mainly burn skids. They produce a lot of heat. Easy to cut and clean to burn. Easy to transport and free. Low ash so you do not have to clean out the fire place as often. So clean I never as in never have to clean the chimney. I just pay 50c a year extra on my house insurance. I just smolder them with a window fan blowing over the stove to keep my house in the 60s in what I call winter. If I want more heat I will use my furnace. But apparently new furnaces do not use much gas anymore so will probably phase out the woodstove over time.

 

[Tangs]

I watched the first 1.5 minutes of the video. I do not do that. I just put the wood in the stove ... I use cardboard as a fire starter. It always works even on damp wood. I do not need the stuff he has on the wall as well. Plus I am still using the same fire brick that it came with in 1989. I even cook with it. Slow cook roast is my fav. The meat just slides off the bone.

 

[Tangs]

Installing a wood stove is easy... If I can do it anybody can. Lol. I use a small berzomatic blow torch. It gets the cardboard or wood to start to burn fast.

 

[sneezebeetle]

We used a wood burning stove at our place when we lived in N. Idaho, heated the whole house with a couple pieces of wood for hours. They work great and for the price of a $10 permit and a couple hours of labor to fall a few trees, we heated the house for 7 months.

 

[Tangs]

The pipes are double insulated ....inside pipes have just air inbetween. Attic and roof chrome has insulation. Be carefully with a wood stove. They can get so hot that they can glow orange.

 

[Reefahholic]

So you have to have the door open to heat? That’s kinda scary. I’d be worried a piece of wood would pop and throw a cherry red coal out on the floor while I’m sleeping. How do you heat at night?