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Cruisin’ Oldies

wood stove

Paul Zayer asked:


I love my wood burning stove Maybe you have noticed but many people have one these days. When the cold season arrives, it is sure nice to have a wood burning stove. I can tell you that.

When I see a wood burning stove in a store or in a magazine it brings back a lot of nice memories. I truly loved the smell and the nice heat my family’s old wood burning stove was giving us in the kitchen in the cold season.

It may seem strange in this day in high tech, but wood burning stoves are getting more popular than they have been in almost a century. Many individuals would suppose that a wood burning oven was about the least practical thing that you would put in your residence. After all, there are a lot of negative aspect to a wood burning stove. First of all, there isn’t the same kind of fine temperature control as with a gas heater. Wood burning stoves, basically, are either on or off. When they are on, you have to constantly supply them with wood. When they are off, they take hours to get going again.

Even so, the wood burning stove has a lot of advantage too. First of all, wood burning ovens are multipurpose. You can use them to heat a room but they can also be used to dry clothes, and warm cold hands. You can even bake certain things on some wood burning stoves! You also have to think of energy cost. Wood burning stoves was thought of as impractical because of the amount of work that goes into using them. Today, however, they make more and more sense. They burn wood very slowly, and in many regions fire wood is accessible at no cost. Having a wood burning stove can save you hundreds and hundreds of dollars every winter. For many families, that is no laughing matter.

But wood burning stoves do have a lot of hazards to them. Though they are not difficult to maintain, they have dangers that regular gas furnaces do not have. Wood burning stoves required in the middle of your living space. That means that if you have young children, they are at risk. If they run into the wood burning stoves, they can burn themselves! Also, a lot of persons believe that wood burning stoves have much greater emissions than other kind of heating systems. Even oil burning furnaces - infamous for the air pollution they produce - are known to be healthier for you than wood stoves. If your wood burning stove is not adequately insulated from the residence, it can liberate dangerous indoor pollution and poison you and your family.

Nevertheless, even with all of these disadvantage, wood burning stoves make sense. They enjoy a renaissance among environmentally conscious individuals. Not only are they more efficient now, but they also allow you to survive with less exterior dependence on our shrinking natural gas supply. So next time you see a wood burning stove, why not get in the store and have a closer look at it? I am pretty certain that you will enjoy the experience.



wood type

Ann Marier asked:


It may seem strange in this day in high tech, but wood burning stoves are more popular than they have been in almost 100 years. May people would think that a wood burning oven was about the least practical thing that you could put in your house. After all, there are so many drawbacks to a wood burning stove. First of all, there is not the same kind of fine temperature control as with a gas heater. Wood burning stoves, basically, are either on or off. When they are on, you have to constantly stock them with wood. When they are off, they take hours to get going again.

Nonetheless, the wood burning stove has a lot going for it. First of all, wood burning ovens are multipurpose. Not only can you use them to heat a room, you can also use them to dry clothes, and warm cold hands. You can even cook certain things on some wood burning stoves! There is also the matter of the cost of heating. Wood burning stoves used to be thought of as impractical because of the amount of labor that goes into running them. Nowadays, however, they make more and more sense. They burn wood very slowly, and in many areas fire wood is available for free. Having a wood burning stove can save you hundreds and hundreds of dollars every winter. For many families, that is no laughing matter.

Nonetheless, wood burning stoves do have a lot of hazards to them. Although they are easy to maintain, they have dangers that normal gas furnaces don’t have. Wood burning stoves need to be in the middle of your comment space. That means that if you have young children, they are at risk. If they run into the wood burning stoves, they can burn themselves! In addition, many people say that wood burning stoves have much greater emissions than other kind of heat. Even oil burning furnaces - notorious for the air pollution they produce - are supposed to be healthier for you that wood stoves. If your wood burning stove is not adequately insulated from the house, it can release hazardous indoor pollution and poison you and your family.

Nonetheless, even with all of these drawbacks, wood burning stoves make sense. They are enjoying a renaissance among environmentally conscious people. Not only are they efficient, but they also allow you to survive with less outside dependence on our shrinking natural gas supply.



plywood

michtyme3 asked:

A nervous schoolgirl is interviewed as a potential student at a medical school. One of the funniest sketches ever. Sadly, she’d probably be good enough to get in now.

walnut wood

David Fishman asked:


Installing wood floors can increase the value of a house and are therefore an investment. There are many different types of wood floors, engineered, solid, impregnated, pre finished and unfinished floors. Wood floors are also relatively easy to maintain. Engineered wood floors are made from layers of wood that are pressed and glued together. Everyone loves antique wood floors and the popularity has lead manufactures to recreated them, manufactures do such a great job recreating the floors they are able to retain their color and charm of the floors. New floors can also be made to look like antiques. Laminate floors are available in planks or tiles. Wood floors have a warm, inviting, exotic look. The new and upcoming wood floors are bamboo, they are tough and they look fantastic in your home. Not so long ago one would expect to pay a small fortune to have wood floors installed. Wood floors have steadily increased in popularity over the last five years.

One particular choice that is increasing in popularity in North America is laminate flooring. Floating laminate installation can be used on any hard, flat surface and is easy enough to be a do-it-yourself application. A water-resistant glue is recommended by most laminate flooring brands. Laminate floors are fantastic they have many qualities which make them better than real wood, one of the qualities is that they are scratch resistance they are more durable and much more water resistant, but the laminate floors today emulate wood floors and many people have a tough time distinguishing between them. Laminate wood flooring is very easy to install, you do not need to higher a contractor, most floors are floating floors and do not need glue. Laminate flooring is great because it is resistant to stains, sunlight and many time scratches and they are very easy to maintain. Laminate wood flooring is environment-friendly as it makes use of more fiber material than wood.

There are many different categories that hardwood flooring fits into, pre-finished, unfinished, engineered, solid and unfinished. Laminate wood floors originated in Europe and are becoming very popular for substitute for hardwood floors in the USA. Wooden floors date back hundreds of years, the hardwood floors first came into the publics eye around the seventeenth century and have been popular ever since.

Wood flooring has also become very easy to obtain, install and maintain with advancements in technology. You could install one of the many different kinds of natural wood flooring, cork flooring, bamboo flooring, or Pergo or other laminates.

Bamboo forests are mostly found in the Hunan province of China. Bamboo is very similar to wood in color and form. Europeans have been using bamboo flooring for many years now, but it is just becoming more popular in the United States. If you are looking at getting wood floors for your home, you should take a look at bamboo flooring.

For hardwood flooring of course, high levels of humidity or moisture of any kind can really work against their natural beauty.



wood hardness

Sam Streubel asked:


The most popular alternatives for whole house or supplemental heating are corn and wood pellet fueled stoves. These appliances are easy to operate and the initial capital outlay is significantly less than solar, wind or geothermal systems.

A vital question to ask before you start evaluating the merits of pellet vs corn stoves should be: “Which fuel, corn or wood pellets, is the most readily available in my locale and therefore the cheapest to burn?”

For instance, in Massachusetts corn for fuel is virtually non-existent. The closest Agway store I contacted (3/2/06) had only eleven, 50 pound bags in stock at a price of $9 each or $360 a ton.

Over the course of a New England heating season, a stove will consume 3 tons of fuel. If you compare this to $260 a ton for wood pellets from a well stocked Connecticut supplier, the wood pellet stove becomes your only choice.

Likewise, if you live in Iowa, why would you buy a wood pellet stove?

In some regions of the country, such as Wisconsin and Minnesota, there is usually an abundance of wood pellets and corn. The obvious benefit is the ability to switch between fuels when one of them becomes scarce.

A perfect example is this year’s wood pellet shortage. Do you think Wisconsin pellet stove owners had to think real hard about where to get corn when the supply of wood pellets ran low?

However, Nancy Koval, owner of Woodburning Warehouse in Watervliet, New York, warns that when burning corn in a wood pellet stove it is best to use a 50/50 mixture of wood pellets and corn.

The problem is clinkers. When corn is burned it leaves behind a substance from the sugars it contains that when cooled is very hard and stays in the burner. The clinkers must be regularly cleaned out of the stove. Some special corn stoves are designed to automatically clear clinkers, Koval said.

Wood pellet and corn stoves have many common traits. They are comparably priced at around $2000 for a unit large enough to heat 1200-1500 square feet, and share an efficiency rating of approximately 80%. Corn and wood pellets also produce an equal amount of heat per pound of fuel.

Please note: Since most house layouts do not allow the free movement of air through the house, a centrally located stove will not heat the whole house. If your home doesn’t have an open floor plan, size the stove to heat the room where the stove is located.

Both types of stoves require electricity to run fans, controls, and the auger that feeds corn or wood pellets into the stove’s firebox. Under normal usage, they consume about 100 kilowatt-hours (kWh) or about $9 worth of electricity per month. Unless the stove has a back-up power supply, the loss of electric power results in no heat and possibly some smoke in the house.

In addition to periodic ash disposal, both corn and wood pellet stoves have an annual maintenance regimen that must be followed to ensure your stove continues to operate as efficiently as the day you bought it.

The storage of corn, as opposed to wood pellets, can be problematic. Owners of corn burning systems who store corn inside their homes need to use tight storage containers, clean up corn spills immediately, and avoid storing corn for long periods of time to prevent problems with rodents and stored grain insects.

A third option to consider is a multi-fuel stove. Typically they are advertised as corn stoves that also burn wood pellets or vice versa.

The #1 selling multi-fuel stove is the Dansons Group Cheap Charlie Model HCCC2GD corn stove that also burns wood pellets.



wood floors

Lil Taylor asked:


We stepped on some “questionable” surfaces before coming home, and I have a crawling son in the house…I really want to disinfect our wood laminate floors! Does anyone know how to do that without damaging our floors?

wood plan

imoluscos asked:

Medeski Martin & Wood the dropper

wood bench

jaxdj asked:

Morningwood’s amazing video for “Nth Degree”

hard wood

Dennis asked:


I have many types of wood available, but I’ve noticed that oaks to not always yield positive results.

maple wood