Nice, another storm :/\\!!

Hopefully the last one ....

Simple, flipped the switch to the off position and reverted to electric baseboard heat for these chilly spring nights.:D

My woodstove doesn't do that very often, but when it does we just cut the intake air damper down a bit and eventually she will draw again. Sometimes a handful of wadded up newspaper stuffed in the chimney and lit will work. Other times corrugated cardboard. I don't have a damper in my chimney. She's straight up.

So is mine. There is a barometric damper in the exhaust pipe leading into the chimney though.
I hope that the heating season is over until fall.:up:

Do you need to sweep your chimney every heating season?

Nope! :D
Anthracite doesn't produce creosote. The fly ash stays mainly in the pipes. I disassemble the pipe system in the spring and wash them out with baking soda and water to cut back on the rust. I'm considering going with double walled piping that has the stainless steel inner sleeve before heating season begins again this fall.

That double wall pipe is about $100.oo a 2' section up here. EXPENSIVE! I've got a 6"diameter chimney in the kitchen 15' long and a 7" in the basement 23' long and they both must be swept every summer without fail. As the oil furnace gets cleaned every year as well. I sweep my own wood chimneys and hire the furnace out. Every 5 years I get a pro in to sweep the wood chimneys and do an inspection on them as well.

We must endeavor to maintain.:up:

Our chimney got an inspection not too long ago after the lightning strike/fire.:huh: Tech told us it could stand to go up a couple more blocks but, was serviceable as is.

A 4 ' section of double wall pipe runs @ $76.00

That $100.oo a piece is double wall insulated. And that is only the 6" stuff. The 7" is about 110.$ each.

Winter is over, I tells ya. I have the AC running now :)

I had my A/C on when I ran down from North Bay on the first.

Wednesday daytime and Wednesday evening we are supposed to get about 3/4" of snow both during the day and into the evening.:( Winter just will not let go.

Just another opportunity to play with your snow blower.:up:

Spring has sprung here and winter is over.:D

A pleasant 15c here in the north east of the UK :sunny:

I took the snow blower off back in March and put the loader on.
The only good thing about this is it will slow down the melt and maybe the basement wont get as wet.

Last week we had highs in the 8-12c range. One day it did get up to 14c.
That was the day I got 100 bags of potting soil, 30 bags at a time on my little army trailer. I probably could have upped it to 50 bags but the trailer only has wally-world 4 ply rated tires on it. I took the original 6 ply by 16" tires off.

I got up this morning to a half an inch of snow, old man winter is not done yet. It wont stay, the frost is coming out of the ground.

We dug up the carrot bed yesterday and the carrots that were in it all winter were good!

A blistering 20C atm so it may be time to consider putting on the mankini :sunny:

Oh! Gawd! NO! NO! Anything but that!

NO pictures, please!

MWUAHAHA :D

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