My husband plans to clean the chimney tomorrow so he can start building fires. It has been a bit chilly recently. The sun warms the upstairs nicely yet, but not the basement.
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My husband plans to clean the chimney tomorrow so he can start building fires. It has been a bit chilly recently. The sun warms the upstairs nicely yet, but not the basement.
Our first stoves were in the cellar of the small house. The benefit was it warmed the cellar walls and bulbs planted near them would flower early, sometimes in January. The next addition had a stove on the first floor and the stove in the cellar. Those 2 kept the whole house nice and warm.
With the 2nd addition we put in the masonry heater and planned to have a wood stove in the cellar to heat his rod shop. But alas... Now it's a workshop and has no stove. So the 2nd addition is a bit cold at this time of year because the masonry heater is too much heat for autumn. But the office is nice and warm!
We never heated the 2nd floor because between the sun (the whole house is set up for passive solar heat) and the wood stoves it was sufficient.