I've started to have fantasies of sitting in front of the fire reading while snow falls outside. It's more real now that the stove is actually installed! I'm so glad you like her. :D
She is, isn't she? People have suggested great names: Pele, Aphrodite, Burnhilda, Woody, Bertha, and Sophia. I may have to try them all out and see what sticks!
Wow, so many things getting done that put you and Peter that much closer to being able to move in! I can fully understand why you're in love with the stove - it's just gorgeous. Not only the color, but the fact that you can watch the fire through the glass door. You will love it in the cold weather. In my area, the preferred wood is locust. I used to heat entirely with wood, and you can't beat it for for heat and how long the fire lasts. Thanks so much for taking us along with you on this wonderful journey!
I love watching fire and haven't ever had the option to do it in my own home, so I am really looking forward to that! We have several black locust trees on the property, so I expect we may burn some of that in time as well. I should have guessed that you used to heat entirely with wood. :P If you don't mind my asking, do you still heat with wood in part? Or have you migrated to a different system?
@@HoneyAppleFarm Unfortunately, the house I'm in now does not have a wood burning heating system. It's electric, and there are times when I miss the wood heat so much I actually consider putting in a wood stove. But other big ticket items need to come first - like the new roof....The heat from wood is so instantaneously adjustable - you just move closer or farther away from. No other type of heat does such a good and quick job of getting the damp cold out of your bones (a real plus in your neck of the woods). And there's the absolute security of knowing that, no matter what happens in the outside world, if you have dry wood, you will be warm. Not to mention the ability to cook, and the exercise from chopping..... I thought I saw what used to be called "scrubbers" in your system (a part of the pipe that helps eliminate carbon and therefore pollution), so even the down side seems to be taken care of. I'm a big fan, can you tell?😊
@@dottiebaker6623 I can tell. :P We have a catalyst in the system that will do a second burn and is therefore more efficient and cleaner, so those may be the scrubbers you saw. I get prioritizing a new roof over a woodstove, but I sure hope you're able to get back to wood heat since you love it so much!
Beautiful shot of the sunset through the trees.So busy on site in today's video but so exciting as everytime somethings accomplished it puts you one step closer to being able to move in.Love the new stove.So excited for you both that everything's coming together and looking forward to seeing what happens next.
Thank you! I wasn't sure how it would turn out on camera because my phone doesn't do well at all with night shots. Happily it seems to do very well with sunset shots. :P I have about 20 more pictures of that stove in the light that didn't make it into the video, and there will probably be more once we move in! I just love that color. :D
A wood stove is awesome for keeping you warm in winter. Good investment. Repairing old houses is like opening Pandora's box, you never know what you are going to get. So glad you are getting rid of the old wiring! Things are coming along!
I'm so glad you like the woodstove, Nana. It's amazing to me both how many surprises we've had working on the house and also how many more we could have had and didn't! Despite lots of DIY choices from the 1950s onward, the house is structurally pretty sound. :D
I'm so glad you love the stove, Linda! I love showing her off. :) We're a good 6 weeks minimum away from moving in, probably more like 8 or 10. So plenty more updates to come!
I can’t tell you how exciting it is watching your renovations . Could I make a suggestion naming your gorgeous stove ? Bertha came to mind. That evening light is absolutely beautiful and to see deer must be a real treat. I can hear owls talking to each other in the early hours where I live . I absolutely love it but only hear it in the autumn so a special treat. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Thanks
I'm so glad you're enjoying the renovations! I've watched other people do them for years, and it's still surreal that I'm now the one making the videos. Bertha is definitely going on the list for the stove. Someone else suggested "Woody," which I also love. Maybe I'll try out several and see which one sticks! I am not sure if we can hear owls on our property as we haven't been there at night or wee hours of the morning (and the generator is usually running when we are there). Odd that you can only hear the ones near you in autumn! Then again, I had a friend from whose house you could hear the frogs every spring (and only in the spring) and that was magical partly because it was a short amount of time.
@ I think you are right, it’s because it’s for such a little time makes it so special. Having Christmas every day would spoil it very quickly. I’m sure you are excited for when you can finally move in and spend your first night in your new home. We are all excited for you too.🇬🇧
@@Summerrose400 I feel exactly the same about Christmas. Part of me wants it to go on forever, but it wouldn't be as special if it were always around. That's why I firmly believe eggnog should not appear until the week before Thanksgiving, and neither should Christmas music (outside one's own home) or Christmas commercials. (I saw my first one yesterday on Hulu and was disgusted. It's way too soon!)
@@johnamstutz Nice! We looked into masonry hearths and would have loved one of those, but we couldn't afford either the hearth or the remodel it would require. That's more of a "if we build from scratch, we could build the house around the stove" project.
13:42 your door to nowhere reminded me of The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. 😂 Thanks for showing us more of the work being done. So exciting to see you closer to moving in.😊
Wow! I just Googled The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. What an incredible house! Definitely the kind of place that might have a Door to Nowhere.
Thank you, Gail! My partner isn't as enthralled with the wallpaper as I am, but I really like it. I don't think I would have picked it because of it being pink, but it fits the house so well - and I like it despite the pink, which makes me want to keep it even more. :P And as you already know, I'm over the moon about that stove!
LOL. I do too, Kay! I was so excited when Peter presented that as one of our color options. I didn't even look at the others; I knew I wanted that one as soon as I saw it.
It's quite serene early in the morning and after working hours when the truck traffic has gone. Even so, the wooded parts are lovely on the eyes! It's funny because the first time we saw the house on a video feed, the trees were bare. And now we're almost back to that bareness! I too am glad we purchased the woodstove. I can't wait to start using it in a few months' time!
That's good to know, Phil. Thank you! Our stove has a secondary burn catalyst to get as much heat as possible out of the wood, but ash is ash. :P In the old days, they used to make soap with ashes (if the lye in the ashes was right), but I don't think I'm up to reusing the ash quite that way - at least not yet!
The wood stove is gorgeous! Maybe call her Burnhilda. 😊 maybe put a kitty enrichment area on the side of the house. He can come and go through that window. I did that for my purr monsters. 🙂👍👍🇨🇦
LOL. Burnhilda is fantastic! That's going on the list, along with Woody, Bertha, Sophia, and Aphrodite. :P We have a catio for Darcy that we are still trying to work out where exactly it will go. I like the idea of putting it on the back of the house, but as always, the problem is that Door to Nowhere which is now a window is a full story off the ground. But I suppose we could put in a staircase down to the ground and build a catio there? But then it would also cover the basement door ... which could be good in the sense that you could get into the catio via the basement door. Hmmmmm ....
@@HoneyAppleFarmmaybe set it up on the wrap around porch over one of the windows where it doesn't interfere with the walkway. Mine is over a window in the 2 ND bedroom. I ordered a cat door window insert from Amazon, but it was too big. So I had to make one. 😽
@@deborahwhite2339 We've talked about putting it on the porch to the left of the door that leads to the driveway with access through a sitting room window. In Tulsa we just took the screen off and pulled the catio close enough so that he couldn't get out through the gap. It's something to ponder over the winter, as it will be too cold in winter to have any windows open. He missed his outdoor time, though - and I think the stimulation of the birds that lived in the holly bush. We hated those holly bushes, but do intend to provide some sort of habitat for birds (and cat TV!)
@@CoffeeWalksandWhatever Fair enough! I fully support doing as little as necessary in retirement. :D Having never had wood heat before, we're probably overly optimistic about the work involved. :P
Having one time lived in Western New York county. Being snowed bound for days and without power. I don't see the wood stove as a luxury item. I see it as important to survive a cold and snow bound day.
An excellent point, Wayne. We did discuss that as part of the justification for purchasing one now, even though global warming has changed the storm and snow patterns quite a bit in the last couple of years. Still, it seemed prudent to have a heat source that would keep going without electric service - even if we need to camp out in front of the fire!
@HoneyAppleFarm I don't put much stock in climate change. Just looked at planetary history. The Great Lakes were created by the receding ice. Just a thought.
@@waynebender8835 Having grown up in southern Wisconsin, w hose rolling hills were also formed by glaciers, I'm familiar with the processes that created the Finger Lakes. We're also learning from neighbors that the winters have been very mild and snow-free the last few years, and there's quite a bit in the papers about how the warmer temperatures may affect the vineyards, which are a big deal here. So it makes sense to prepare for any eventuality because historically, climates change: hotter, wetter, colder, drier, etc.
Much has been accomplished! The stove looks good as does the window fitted into the Door to Nowhere. Settling of the ground around the septic system piping is normal. Take some of the left over dirt and fill in the low spots and you will be good. (You may see some more settling over the winter and from spring rains.) Hope the electrical wiring is progressing OK. Any idea of how soon electric will be connected? Hang in there, it will be worth it!
Thanks, Dad! Our general contractor piled some extra dirt from the driveway into the settling around the tank. I'm glad to know it's normal; I thought it might be, but since everything is so new, who knows what's common sense and what isn't! No timeline yet on finishing all of the electrical work. It's the project that gets attention when the weather isn't great or when supplies for other projects are held up. We had our first under-32 degrees on the thermometer morning this weekend, though, so the electric for at least the mini-splits needs to go in over the next couple of weeks so we can keep the house warm enough for pipes etc. not to freeze.
So Aphradite, Greek goddess of love and war, they both love fireplaces and will argue over who needs to get the wood in winter when it's rainy or snowing, 😂, and my kittens name.❤
Funny you should say that, Sheri. A couple of days after filming the video, Neptune came to mind. It hasn't stuck, but it's definitely in the god/goddess wheelhouse. Someone suggested Sophia, and Bertha and Woody have also been offered. All have their merits!
@@lesleyharris525 That is so cool. From what I remember of Greek literature in high school, most of the plays are great reads: incest, politics, intrigue, violence. Not my favorite choice, but I'll take that over most literature which was BORING.
What are you planning on putting on the wall behind the wood stove? My mother in law has one very similar and has it much farther from the wall, with the wall bricked behind it. I will say, hers doesn't heat the house well, no matter how big of a fire you build in it. Hubby and I have talked about it numerous times that it's just not one that produces a lot of heat.
At the moment, we aren't planning on putting anything behind it. The sheetrock on the wall had to be thicker than normal sheetrock, so that's all that we've done - and painted, of course. My partner did extensive research on using woodstoves as a main heat source, so we're as confident as first-time buyers & users that we've made the most educated choice. There's always stuff that you learn that can't be researched, but as the work crew have had a propane burner in the same room to heat the house and it's done great, we have high hopes for the stove.
Love love love the stove! But the company completely missed naming the color. No way is that seafoam, which is a soft bright green blue. Even if you call it seafoam blue it's not correct - that's a soft bright blue. Google the colors and you'll see how far off they are. Regardless, gorgeous color. Glad you're having the stovepipe in your office boxed in. Great idea to have a cupboard tucked into the space next to it. So exciting to see all the changes! Pre-sunset light this time of year is some of the most beautiful.
Yeah, the seafoam color name felt off to me too. I think of seafoam as way more green, whereas the stove is, as you say, mostly blue (with some turquoise in the right light). I am slowly learning about the "golden hour" light first-hand, which is fun because I've read about it but haven't shot much at that time.
Funny you should say that. Sophia is one of the names we're considering for the house itself, but I can also see it being a great name for the stove. Sophia sounds wise and strong, beautiful and elegant but not too elitist.
Does the wood stove have chimney fans that pulls smoke up to outside? Will the metal stack will be hot to the touch? If so, why not leave it open on two sides to keep the room warm? It's going to be wonderful having that stove! Perfect for winter warmth and emergency cooking and heating during electric/gas outages!
There are no chimney fans, just the chimney itself. To be fair, the other 3 chimneys (2 brick, 1 cinderblock) didn't have fans either and presumably worked just fine. The pipe will not be hot to the touch, we're told, but it will be warm. Our general contractor is going to put a vent in the enclosure around the pipe in my office so the heat will be able to come into the room. :D
wow, what a lovely stove! I hear you can get fans that can sit on the stove and the rising heat spins the fan which helps circulate the heat around more. And I was thinking, in your office, you could get heat from that pipe! though maybe a bit of a fire hazard if it gets hot enough (I think you mentioned it, I just heard it but my brain is already blanking). I understand apartments in New York City often have pipes in the corner like that, and there is heat that radiates from them. Don't have any suggestions for names, apart from maybe Pele, the polynesian volcano goddess :)
We've talked about getting fans to move the heat more, and we'll have several ceiling fans as well (those are going in as part of the electrical re-wiring!) Since we haven't had a woodstove before, part of our adventure will be understanding how heat moves in that house naturally and where we can encourage it to move with additional fans. Yes, the pipe in my office will radiate heat! It will be enclosed because building codes say it has to be, even though the pipe will be warm but not burning to the touch. But, we can leave a vent in the enclosure for warm air to flow into the office. Oooh, I like Pele! Adding that to the list of great name suggestions.
@@HoneyAppleFarm what a lovely adventure to have, figuring out how to use such a pretty stove. And it's good the pipe is enclosed, I'm sure. Maybe those NYC apartments weren't so safe - lol shocking discovery I'm sure :p
@@crowfoot1199 I'm all for the pipe being enclosed because I'm not sure how our cat will interact with it (he has a terrible sense of spatial awareness), but I get cold really quickly, so having something radiate heat in the cold of winter in my office is a bonus! Hopefully the vent will work well.
The team already tried moving the fridge with the doors on and weren't able to get it out the doors. Since we aren't keeping it, no harm in cutting it up and getting it out the fastest way possible!
We had to take our woodstove out of our 1916 farmhouse. We live way out in the country where we do not have fire protection. So our home insurance is super high priced. And having any other source of heat besides electric costs us an extra 35% to the price of our already expensive insurance. It sucks, as i love the heat from a woodstove.
Yes, it is! According to building codes, the sheetrock on the wall behind the stove has to be 5/8" sheetrock, so thicker than your usual sheetrock. And the paint on that wall is also heat-resistant, I believe. Our general contractor and Peter both did a lot of research on what was needed to make that wall safe!
@@erwinaddison2030 They said they recommend yearly cleanings by a professional company, but I don't believe the briefing included cleaning the chimney ourselves.
Wow, things are really moving along now! The woodstove is gorgeous! Going to be lovely to sit there during a snowfall and read for hours
I've started to have fantasies of sitting in front of the fire reading while snow falls outside. It's more real now that the stove is actually installed! I'm so glad you like her. :D
How exciting....a super woodstove...she is lovely... Y'all are really coming along...so happy for you....All the best...Melanie Fay
Awww, thanks Melanie! I'm so glad you think she's pretty. :P
Oh my gosh that stove is AMAZING, can't wait to hear what you've named her! Love seeing the updates!!
She is, isn't she? People have suggested great names: Pele, Aphrodite, Burnhilda, Woody, Bertha, and Sophia. I may have to try them all out and see what sticks!
What a pretty woodstove! great color.
Wow, so many things getting done that put you and Peter that much closer to being able to move in! I can fully understand why you're in love with the stove - it's just gorgeous. Not only the color, but the fact that you can watch the fire through the glass door. You will love it in the cold weather. In my area, the preferred wood is locust. I used to heat entirely with wood, and you can't beat it for for heat and how long the fire lasts. Thanks so much for taking us along with you on this wonderful journey!
I love watching fire and haven't ever had the option to do it in my own home, so I am really looking forward to that! We have several black locust trees on the property, so I expect we may burn some of that in time as well. I should have guessed that you used to heat entirely with wood. :P If you don't mind my asking, do you still heat with wood in part? Or have you migrated to a different system?
@@HoneyAppleFarm Unfortunately, the house I'm in now does not have a wood burning heating system. It's electric, and there are times when I miss the wood heat so much I actually consider putting in a wood stove. But other big ticket items need to come first - like the new roof....The heat from wood is so instantaneously adjustable - you just move closer or farther away from. No other type of heat does such a good and quick job of getting the damp cold out of your bones (a real plus in your neck of the woods). And there's the absolute security of knowing that, no matter what happens in the outside world, if you have dry wood, you will be warm. Not to mention the ability to cook, and the exercise from chopping..... I thought I saw what used to be called "scrubbers" in your system (a part of the pipe that helps eliminate carbon and therefore pollution), so even the down side seems to be taken care of. I'm a big fan, can you tell?😊
@@dottiebaker6623 I can tell. :P We have a catalyst in the system that will do a second burn and is therefore more efficient and cleaner, so those may be the scrubbers you saw. I get prioritizing a new roof over a woodstove, but I sure hope you're able to get back to wood heat since you love it so much!
@@HoneyAppleFarm Thanks!
Beautiful shot of the sunset through the trees.So busy on site in today's video but so exciting as everytime somethings accomplished it puts you one step closer to being able to move in.Love the new stove.So excited for you both that everything's coming together and looking forward to seeing what happens next.
Thank you! I wasn't sure how it would turn out on camera because my phone doesn't do well at all with night shots. Happily it seems to do very well with sunset shots. :P I have about 20 more pictures of that stove in the light that didn't make it into the video, and there will probably be more once we move in! I just love that color. :D
A wood stove is awesome for keeping you warm in winter. Good investment. Repairing old houses is like opening Pandora's box, you never know what you are going to get. So glad you are getting rid of the old wiring! Things are coming along!
Yes, I agree, the sunset is beautiful. I am sure you will enjoy the wood stove in the winter. Love and Blessings❤️🌹I am enjoying all your videos.
I'm so glad you like the woodstove, Nana. It's amazing to me both how many surprises we've had working on the house and also how many more we could have had and didn't! Despite lots of DIY choices from the 1950s onward, the house is structurally pretty sound. :D
I'm glad you enjoyed the sunset, Any Name. I so appreciate your being part of the journey.
Love the wood stove! I’d be excited also. So happy that so much is being done, hope you’re in soon. Look forward to each update❣️
I'm so glad you love the stove, Linda! I love showing her off. :) We're a good 6 weeks minimum away from moving in, probably more like 8 or 10. So plenty more updates to come!
Love the stove,things are looking good 👍 👌 😊
I'm so glad you like the stove too, Anthony. :D
I can’t tell you how exciting it is watching your renovations . Could I make a suggestion naming your gorgeous stove ? Bertha came to mind. That evening light is absolutely beautiful and to see deer must be a real treat. I can hear owls talking to each other in the early hours where I live . I absolutely love it but only hear it in the autumn so a special treat. Can’t wait for the next instalment. Thanks
I'm so glad you're enjoying the renovations! I've watched other people do them for years, and it's still surreal that I'm now the one making the videos. Bertha is definitely going on the list for the stove. Someone else suggested "Woody," which I also love. Maybe I'll try out several and see which one sticks!
I am not sure if we can hear owls on our property as we haven't been there at night or wee hours of the morning (and the generator is usually running when we are there). Odd that you can only hear the ones near you in autumn! Then again, I had a friend from whose house you could hear the frogs every spring (and only in the spring) and that was magical partly because it was a short amount of time.
@ I think you are right, it’s because it’s for such a little time makes it so special. Having Christmas every day would spoil it very quickly. I’m sure you are excited for when you can finally move in and spend your first night in your new home. We are all excited for you too.🇬🇧
@@Summerrose400 I feel exactly the same about Christmas. Part of me wants it to go on forever, but it wouldn't be as special if it were always around. That's why I firmly believe eggnog should not appear until the week before Thanksgiving, and neither should Christmas music (outside one's own home) or Christmas commercials. (I saw my first one yesterday on Hulu and was disgusted. It's way too soon!)
My Queen Anne had 2 wood stoves, one in the living room,snd one in the sunroom. We used both all winter. I loved them.
Oh wow! Your Queen Anne must have been so toasty. Did you put a woodstove in your new build as well?
@HoneyAppleFarm we had a fireplace in the great room. Nothing like a fire on a chilly night.😊
@@johnamstutz Nice! We looked into masonry hearths and would have loved one of those, but we couldn't afford either the hearth or the remodel it would require. That's more of a "if we build from scratch, we could build the house around the stove" project.
13:42 your door to nowhere reminded me of The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. 😂
Thanks for showing us more of the work being done. So exciting to see you closer to moving in.😊
Wow! I just Googled The Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, CA. What an incredible house! Definitely the kind of place that might have a Door to Nowhere.
That wood stove is beautiful and I love that wallpaper in your office.
Thank you, Gail! My partner isn't as enthralled with the wallpaper as I am, but I really like it. I don't think I would have picked it because of it being pink, but it fits the house so well - and I like it despite the pink, which makes me want to keep it even more. :P And as you already know, I'm over the moon about that stove!
I LOVE THE COLOR OF THE STOVE!
LOL. I do too, Kay! I was so excited when Peter presented that as one of our color options. I didn't even look at the others; I knew I wanted that one as soon as I saw it.
So many nice changes! I can see why you love your property -- it's beautiful and so serene looking. I'm glad you treated yourselves to the woodstove.
It's quite serene early in the morning and after working hours when the truck traffic has gone. Even so, the wooded parts are lovely on the eyes! It's funny because the first time we saw the house on a video feed, the trees were bare. And now we're almost back to that bareness!
I too am glad we purchased the woodstove. I can't wait to start using it in a few months' time!
✨🏆✨. Beautiful stove. Ours was black and functional
Thank you! Black is quite traditional, we understand, but since this was also a "fun" purchase, we wanted something a bit different.
One thing to consider when choosing hardwood to burn ash trees make alot of , well, ashes more than oak or cherry. Love your channel !
That's good to know, Phil. Thank you! Our stove has a secondary burn catalyst to get as much heat as possible out of the wood, but ash is ash. :P In the old days, they used to make soap with ashes (if the lye in the ashes was right), but I don't think I'm up to reusing the ash quite that way - at least not yet!
That stove is so beautiful! This was such a exciting video! Lots happening!
I'm so glad you liked it! It was definitely one of my favorite videos so far!
The wood stove is gorgeous! Maybe call her Burnhilda. 😊 maybe put a kitty enrichment area on the side of the house. He can come and go through that window. I did that for my purr monsters. 🙂👍👍🇨🇦
LOL. Burnhilda is fantastic! That's going on the list, along with Woody, Bertha, Sophia, and Aphrodite. :P
We have a catio for Darcy that we are still trying to work out where exactly it will go. I like the idea of putting it on the back of the house, but as always, the problem is that Door to Nowhere which is now a window is a full story off the ground. But I suppose we could put in a staircase down to the ground and build a catio there? But then it would also cover the basement door ... which could be good in the sense that you could get into the catio via the basement door. Hmmmmm ....
@@HoneyAppleFarmmaybe set it up on the wrap around porch over one of the windows where it doesn't interfere with the walkway. Mine is over a window in the 2 ND bedroom. I ordered a cat door window insert from Amazon, but it was too big. So I had to make one. 😽
@@deborahwhite2339 We've talked about putting it on the porch to the left of the door that leads to the driveway with access through a sitting room window. In Tulsa we just took the screen off and pulled the catio close enough so that he couldn't get out through the gap. It's something to ponder over the winter, as it will be too cold in winter to have any windows open. He missed his outdoor time, though - and I think the stimulation of the birds that lived in the holly bush. We hated those holly bushes, but do intend to provide some sort of habitat for birds (and cat TV!)
Looking good! Having the woodstove is going to be so nice in the winter. We miss that! ☕️🇨🇦☕️
I'm surprised you don't have one at your place! Is it on the list? Or just something that isn't a fit for your new house?
@HoneyAppleFarm we both like wood heat but not interested in the work that goes with it, lol. Retired and loving it lol
@@CoffeeWalksandWhatever Fair enough! I fully support doing as little as necessary in retirement. :D Having never had wood heat before, we're probably overly optimistic about the work involved. :P
She is gorgeous !
Yes, she is. I'm so glad you think so too, Deanna!
Great progress!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thank you, Connie! I'm starting to have visions of sitting in that room watching the snow fall and reading in front of the fire. :D
stove is lovely. place is looking good. lots of changes.
Thank you, Donna!
Having one time lived in Western New York county. Being snowed bound for days and without power. I don't see the wood stove as a luxury item. I see it as important to survive a cold and snow bound day.
An excellent point, Wayne. We did discuss that as part of the justification for purchasing one now, even though global warming has changed the storm and snow patterns quite a bit in the last couple of years. Still, it seemed prudent to have a heat source that would keep going without electric service - even if we need to camp out in front of the fire!
@HoneyAppleFarm I don't put much stock in climate change. Just looked at planetary history. The Great Lakes were created by the receding ice. Just a thought.
@@waynebender8835 Having grown up in southern Wisconsin, w hose rolling hills were also formed by glaciers, I'm familiar with the processes that created the Finger Lakes. We're also learning from neighbors that the winters have been very mild and snow-free the last few years, and there's quite a bit in the papers about how the warmer temperatures may affect the vineyards, which are a big deal here. So it makes sense to prepare for any eventuality because historically, climates change: hotter, wetter, colder, drier, etc.
So much progress! Congrats. Beautiful stove.
Thank you, Audri! The stove is a major project checked off the list. :)
A lot of progress🎉. Love the “ classy” stove
Thanks, Hilda! I'm glad you like our classy stove.
Much has been accomplished! The stove looks good as does the window fitted into the Door to Nowhere. Settling of the ground around the septic system piping is normal. Take some of the left over dirt and fill in the low spots and you will be good. (You may see some more settling over the winter and from spring rains.) Hope the electrical wiring is progressing OK. Any idea of how soon electric will be connected? Hang in there, it will be worth it!
Thanks, Dad! Our general contractor piled some extra dirt from the driveway into the settling around the tank. I'm glad to know it's normal; I thought it might be, but since everything is so new, who knows what's common sense and what isn't!
No timeline yet on finishing all of the electrical work. It's the project that gets attention when the weather isn't great or when supplies for other projects are held up. We had our first under-32 degrees on the thermometer morning this weekend, though, so the electric for at least the mini-splits needs to go in over the next couple of weeks so we can keep the house warm enough for pipes etc. not to freeze.
Nice stove 🔥
Thank you, Villa! She's a beauty, isn't she? 😊
She looks like a Grecian goddess. Can’t wait to hear what you’ve chosen as a name
So Aphradite, Greek goddess of love and war, they both love fireplaces and will argue over who needs to get the wood in winter when it's rainy or snowing, 😂, and my kittens name.❤
Funny you should say that, Sheri. A couple of days after filming the video, Neptune came to mind. It hasn't stuck, but it's definitely in the god/goddess wheelhouse. Someone suggested Sophia, and Bertha and Woody have also been offered. All have their merits!
I hadn't considered Aphrodite. That's a heck of a name for a kitten, Lesley! How did that name come about for your kitten?
@HoneyAppleFarm my daughter is interested in Greek classical literature
@@lesleyharris525 That is so cool. From what I remember of Greek literature in high school, most of the plays are great reads: incest, politics, intrigue, violence. Not my favorite choice, but I'll take that over most literature which was BORING.
How exciting Felicity!!🎉
Thanks, Lisa! It *is* exciting. :D
What are you planning on putting on the wall behind the wood stove? My mother in law has one very similar and has it much farther from the wall, with the wall bricked behind it. I will say, hers doesn't heat the house well, no matter how big of a fire you build in it. Hubby and I have talked about it numerous times that it's just not one that produces a lot of heat.
At the moment, we aren't planning on putting anything behind it. The sheetrock on the wall had to be thicker than normal sheetrock, so that's all that we've done - and painted, of course. My partner did extensive research on using woodstoves as a main heat source, so we're as confident as first-time buyers & users that we've made the most educated choice. There's always stuff that you learn that can't be researched, but as the work crew have had a propane burner in the same room to heat the house and it's done great, we have high hopes for the stove.
Love love love the stove! But the company completely missed naming the color. No way is that seafoam, which is a soft bright green blue. Even if you call it seafoam blue it's not correct - that's a soft bright blue. Google the colors and you'll see how far off they are. Regardless, gorgeous color.
Glad you're having the stovepipe in your office boxed in. Great idea to have a cupboard tucked into the space next to it.
So exciting to see all the changes! Pre-sunset light this time of year is some of the most beautiful.
Yeah, the seafoam color name felt off to me too. I think of seafoam as way more green, whereas the stove is, as you say, mostly blue (with some turquoise in the right light).
I am slowly learning about the "golden hour" light first-hand, which is fun because I've read about it but haven't shot much at that time.
I would call her Sophia! She is very beautiful.
Funny you should say that. Sophia is one of the names we're considering for the house itself, but I can also see it being a great name for the stove. Sophia sounds wise and strong, beautiful and elegant but not too elitist.
@@HoneyAppleFarm Stovia lol
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Does the wood stove have chimney fans that pulls smoke up to outside? Will the metal stack will be hot to the touch? If so, why not leave it open on two sides to keep the room warm? It's going to be wonderful having that stove! Perfect for winter warmth and emergency cooking and heating during electric/gas outages!
There are no chimney fans, just the chimney itself. To be fair, the other 3 chimneys (2 brick, 1 cinderblock) didn't have fans either and presumably worked just fine. The pipe will not be hot to the touch, we're told, but it will be warm. Our general contractor is going to put a vent in the enclosure around the pipe in my office so the heat will be able to come into the room. :D
wow, what a lovely stove! I hear you can get fans that can sit on the stove and the rising heat spins the fan which helps circulate the heat around more. And I was thinking, in your office, you could get heat from that pipe! though maybe a bit of a fire hazard if it gets hot enough (I think you mentioned it, I just heard it but my brain is already blanking). I understand apartments in New York City often have pipes in the corner like that, and there is heat that radiates from them. Don't have any suggestions for names, apart from maybe Pele, the polynesian volcano goddess :)
We've talked about getting fans to move the heat more, and we'll have several ceiling fans as well (those are going in as part of the electrical re-wiring!) Since we haven't had a woodstove before, part of our adventure will be understanding how heat moves in that house naturally and where we can encourage it to move with additional fans.
Yes, the pipe in my office will radiate heat! It will be enclosed because building codes say it has to be, even though the pipe will be warm but not burning to the touch. But, we can leave a vent in the enclosure for warm air to flow into the office.
Oooh, I like Pele! Adding that to the list of great name suggestions.
@@HoneyAppleFarm what a lovely adventure to have, figuring out how to use such a pretty stove. And it's good the pipe is enclosed, I'm sure. Maybe those NYC apartments weren't so safe - lol shocking discovery I'm sure :p
@@crowfoot1199 I'm all for the pipe being enclosed because I'm not sure how our cat will interact with it (he has a terrible sense of spatial awareness), but I get cold really quickly, so having something radiate heat in the cold of winter in my office is a bonus! Hopefully the vent will work well.
Again,on the refrigerator that needs to come out, you just need to open the doors and it will go through narrow doorways that way.
The team already tried moving the fridge with the doors on and weren't able to get it out the doors. Since we aren't keeping it, no harm in cutting it up and getting it out the fastest way possible!
We had to take our woodstove out of our 1916 farmhouse. We live way out in the country where we do not have fire protection. So our home insurance is super high priced. And having any other source of heat besides electric costs us an extra 35% to the price of our already expensive insurance. It sucks, as i love the heat from a woodstove.
Oh man! That sucks, Lori. I'm so sorry. We had several talks about our insurance company about the stove before going ahead with the purchase.
Is the wall behind wood stove safe against fire? Be safe
Yes, it is! According to building codes, the sheetrock on the wall behind the stove has to be 5/8" sheetrock, so thicker than your usual sheetrock. And the paint on that wall is also heat-resistant, I believe. Our general contractor and Peter both did a lot of research on what was needed to make that wall safe!
Name the wood stove "Woody"😊
ROFL. Ok, this is awesome! And so obvious - how did I miss it? AND it's a Toy Story reference. #winning
Did they tell you about cleaning the chimney pipe and the brush needed to do so?
@@erwinaddison2030 They said they recommend yearly cleanings by a professional company, but I don't believe the briefing included cleaning the chimney ourselves.
Is your wood stove able to burn either wood or wood pellets or just wood?
That's a great question! I just opened the manual and it specifies "natural wood only," so I'm assuming no wood pellets.
Name her. Bluesy, after my granddaughter!
LOL. Would your granddaughter appreciate having a stove named after her? :P