The temperature in the winter should be 40-50-ish day and night in the winter.
Something has gone terribly wrong today…
This is supposed to be a RAIN chain! Not an ICE chain…
It is 23 degrees outside and might I say that is it a toasty 67 degrees inside.
The best part is that the heat is free!
Look at this woodstove – it is keeping about 1/2 the house warm with wood from our land.
What is that drum-like contraption on top of the stove, you ask?
Well – it is an amazing thing, indeed.
It has a metal plate on the bottom that, when heated – spins a fan and forces air downwards over the top of the stove and along sides of the stove – and all that nice warm heat – goes down towards the floor and slowly rises and heats up the house.
I have had a ecofan on the stove for years, an when I put my hand in front of it – no discernable airflow could be detected.
I was looking for another type fan and low and behold found this one on ebay.
This drum type fan – kicks butt. The airflow is dynamic and it has won me over!
The ecofan has been designated to the secondary woodstove in the kitchen.
We really don’t use this stove to cook on(we have a real one) – just for junk mail and supplemental heat in the winter.
This is a setting on the vintage Frigidaire Flair stove that I have at my office.
It got me to thinking.
Infinite Heat
Infinite Heat
Infinite Heat
Oooooooh-Wheee – – wouldn’t that be nice.
I suppose many of you do NOT heat your home with wood.
We do.
At least we heat PART of the house with wood.
And it got me to thinking how nice “Infinite Heat” would be, as keeping a woodstove going for 5-6 months out of the year is a chore.
The heat from a woodstove is fabulous and comforting.
We have that fan on the stove that starts spins merely by the heat of the stove.
I just ordered another type that again, works by heat, but pushes the air downward. I am anxious to see if it gets more heat out and about in the house. I will give an update on this.
The glow from the Infinite Heat of the old Flair really cannot compete with the glow from a well stoked wood stove….
This is supposed to be a RAIN chain! Not an ICE chain…
What is that drum-like contraption on top of the stove, you ask?
I have had a ecofan on the stove for years, an when I put my hand in front of it – no discernable airflow could be detected.
We really don’t use this stove to cook on(we have a real one) – just for junk mail and supplemental heat in the winter.
Look.
Ain’t that what it is all about?
This is a setting on the vintage Frigidaire Flair stove that I have at my office.
I think I have packrat DNA in me 