Posted on 12/15/2017 4:20:54 PM PST by greeneyes
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We had our home built in 1984. It’s super insulated and passive solar. Had a Lopi woodstove installed in the downstairs walkout family room. We can heat the whole house with it. It is still going strong after all these years. We have replaced the door gasket and flue joint fireproof gasket and some firebricks over the years. We have the one with the twin glass doors. it came with a screen so we can burn open door hearth style but have only used that a couple of times.
We put in a Lopi insert in our first house in Iowa, then a stove in our first Minnesota house.
We built a new house in Prior lake, MN and put in the smallest Lopi stove available. It could heat everything.
This brand really is the best.
Agreed. One of the best things we put in our house.
Greeneyes, A kerosene heater in a green house is a big no no, the unburned hydrocarbons and other soot residue produced when the kerosene burns are extremely toxic to plants. A cheap humidifier from Walmart will solve this problem.
Thanks- hubby has been trying to get me to do that, so I’ll have to tell him what you said.
I will have to do that. Thanks.
We finally got a bit of rain here in Central Missouri, but it wasn’t enough to do any real good.
I’m off work through the end of year and have a big list of things to get done. Wife and daughter have both been sick and I feel like I’m catching what they’ve had. I’m still not done cleaning my workshop, but it’s better than it’s been in a long time.
I tore out one dilapidated horse stall over the weekend, and replaced one of the main support posts on the open side of the barn. Now I need to pick up some material at the lumber yard to rebuild the stall.
I still need to finish cleaning up the kitchen garden, and prune/spray the orchard trees, but that will all have to wait until I’m feeling a little better.
Sorry to hear you are under the weather - best wishes for a speedy recovery. We also got a small amount of rain.
I have used some duct tape to tape up a 10x20 ft. piece of plastic (thin) above the sliding door. So I have about 7x3 ft enclosed inside the sunroom. I put a small crockpot on the plant cart, and that has given the right amount of humidity.
It has also greatly reduced the electrical output from the heater and keeping the temperature up at night above 50 degrees.
Will be refining this idea for something a little more permanent.
Get well soon! Being sick over the holidays is no fun - we have been there before.
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