Burning wood

I know in some thread somewhere we talked about designs on wood stoves and fireplaces... Well, Im at my parents today waiting to go get activated and so I remembered to snap a photo of the fireplace cover here, which is copper, My dad and I spray painted it flat black and polished the high spots of the casting to make it stand out better. This house was built in the 1880's
I did the brick work a few years back, but here is the cover I mentioned before.
 

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Is there a place to bake bread , some old houses have a small opening to bake bread in my city .
 
whatdidyousay! said:
Is there a place to bake bread , some old houses have a small opening to bake bread in my city .
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no not in this one, but as a kid I would sit right in front of it on a bean bag and light candles and melt crayons over glass bottles in front of the fire.
This fireplace has saved our hind ends a few times during power outages... we have cooked in it with a cast iron cook pot ( forgot the name of it) but you bury it in the embers an cooks like a crock pot, made pot roasts and other meals in it.

My dad used to take powdered Clorox and drill holes in the log and pack it in the holes, make beautiful colored flames.
 
sonocativo said:
I know in some thread somewhere we talked about designs on wood stoves and fireplaces... Well, Im at my parents today waiting to go get activated and so I remembered to snap a photo of the fireplace cover here, which is copper, My dad and I spray painted it flat black and polished the high spots of the casting to make it stand out better. This house was built in the 1880's
I did the brick work a few years back, but here is the cover I mentioned before.
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Absolutely gorgeous. I'll live vicariously through you. We had a house built in 1895 that had to be completely redone. I loved the old basement and the attic the best. We found cast iron people toys under our shed. Likely from that time period.
 
sonocativo said:
no not in this one, but as a kid I would sit right in front of it on a bean bag and light candles and melt crayons over glass bottles in front of the fire.
This fireplace has saved our hind ends a few times during power outages... we have cooked in it with a cast iron cook pot ( forgot the name of it) but you bury it in the embers an cooks like a crock pot, made pot roasts and other meals in it.

My dad used to take powdered Clorox and drill holes in the log and pack it in the holes, make beautiful colored flames.
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Yeah I bet the fireplace did save your butts. I remeber stories my dad told us about living in Russia in the 1800's and that was the only way they could stay alive having a fire going. I know what you mean about burying the pot in embers , that was something else dad did to cook food in Mexico .
 
A few years ago, our heat pump died the day after Christmas. We couldn't afford to replace it for at least three months. So, we depended on our wood stove for our primary source of heat for the house for those three winter months. It worked very well. At night we used our electric blanket in our upstairs bedroom. In the morning, before we got the fire going again, we had a small electric space heater in the kitchen so we could have a comfortable breakfast. :)
 
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I used this as my desktop background. You can make background animated with Deskscapes 8.
 
I miss my little saltbox house that had a woodstove , it gave off just enough heat on a cold night in Berkeley, CA. The house was build in the 1800's , I had some work done on it and we found newspaper in a wall from the 1800's
I was hoping to find $$$ too but no luck.
 
It looks like the wood stove is placed directly on the wood floor, if it is I would put some non combustible material like bricks, tile, etc under it to keep the floor from possibly igniting. I made a wood stove for my parents back in the 80's and had to shield it from the bookcases, floor and mantle but once I did they were able to pretty much heat the house with it to a very comfortable temperature in the low to mid 70's and did so for many years. One thing I put into the design that wasn't really needed was a blower: the only time I tried it I had the house up to 95 degrees in about 20 minutes before I shut it down and my Dad's only comment was " I don't think we will need to use it!"
 
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