My Entire House is a Tobacco Dryer
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Ditto! We have a wonderful 6 year old lab/something. Everyone thinks he's a full lab, but has a touch of something else. Rescue pup from 5 years ago.
My entire house is a cigar humidor. I live in a temperate rainforest and have a hard time drying pipe tobacco but don't have to do much to maintain the cigar collection. Pros and cons to everything I guess...
Looks like a nice fire and dog to sit and smoke a pipe with.
Looks like a nice fire and dog to sit and smoke a pipe with.
From 80% to almost 30%? Wow. It's around 70% here in Baku, so I don't even check my cigar humidors.
That's an amazing transformation. You turned a tired looking fireplace into a centerpiece for the room. Smart of you to remove the fire bricks and take it back to the stone, and then put in the wood stove. And the flagstones are a great compliment. Are they slate? The fireplace itself now looks like it could have been built a couple of centuries ago.
We have a large granite field-stone fireplace at the cottage. I did some re-pointing in August but I'll have more to do come spring. We don't use it because of insurance hassles, no company will insure us as there is no insert. We do however have a wood stove for heating. You've got me thinking however of doing something along the lines of what you have. Thanks for sharing.
We have a large granite field-stone fireplace at the cottage. I did some re-pointing in August but I'll have more to do come spring. We don't use it because of insurance hassles, no company will insure us as there is no insert. We do however have a wood stove for heating. You've got me thinking however of doing something along the lines of what you have. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks!
It took me a year to finish it, so I only really see the transformation when I look at the pictures.
The mantle and hearth are bluestone, easy to come by around here. After I sand blasted the granite, I chipped the pointing out, back to the mortar. It was interesting to find folded up wedges of old newspaper, in German script from the 1930's, wedged in to hold the stones in place while the mortar set. This was a predominantly Pennsylvania German area up through the 1970's, when the small farms staring closing down and folks "from away" started moving in to new subdivisions.
The chimney wasn't heat-tight (didn't have a cap on it until we bought the house), so we installed a liner, then had insulation blown around it. Since the chimney goes up the center of the house, it stays warm and draws very well. My only regret was that we should have gone with a somewhat larger stove. It's perfect for temps into the 20's, but below that we're running it too wide open and that isn't very efficient. We'll probably replace it over the summer with another Jotul.
It took me a year to finish it, so I only really see the transformation when I look at the pictures.
The mantle and hearth are bluestone, easy to come by around here. After I sand blasted the granite, I chipped the pointing out, back to the mortar. It was interesting to find folded up wedges of old newspaper, in German script from the 1930's, wedged in to hold the stones in place while the mortar set. This was a predominantly Pennsylvania German area up through the 1970's, when the small farms staring closing down and folks "from away" started moving in to new subdivisions.
The chimney wasn't heat-tight (didn't have a cap on it until we bought the house), so we installed a liner, then had insulation blown around it. Since the chimney goes up the center of the house, it stays warm and draws very well. My only regret was that we should have gone with a somewhat larger stove. It's perfect for temps into the 20's, but below that we're running it too wide open and that isn't very efficient. We'll probably replace it over the summer with another Jotul.
Super job. Getting rid of the Egyptian tomb accents around the box was a good move, and must have been fun! (OK, maybe color scheme of the original owner's druthers)
A truly wonderful job. The before and after are like night and day :clap: Love that ceiling too.
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