starENERGY 18×36 Small House Kit
This new complete house kit on Amazon makes a 648 square foot small house. It is small, but big enough to be a home. Or add it beside your house to use for guests, office space or to earn extra money as a long term …
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Safely Displaying, Storing and Organizing Guitars
I am trying to find a way to get all of Cliff’s guitars, amplifiers and the rest out of a big pile leaning against walls and at least a little more organized. There are a lot of posts and pages on the subject, but most …
Fireplace Hood, Canopy or Heat Deflector
I’ve been looking at photos of the fireplaces in historic houses. I was trying to decide what will look best, or at least not stupid when I try to use an antique fireplace mantel with a new efficient gas heating stove. The idea is by …
Mantel and Trim Clearance
We want a gas stove that will actually provide practical heat. We want to use our antique mantel. And we don’t want our house to burn down. The stove cannot be pushed in close under our mantel. Minimum Clearances from the Stove to Combustibles This …
Installing our Jotul Direct Vent Sebago
We have pretty much finalized on the Jøtul GF 400 DV Sebago. We just have to check all of the clearances now and make sure it will fit and won’t burn the house down. The PDF begins with “If the information in these instructions is …
Comparing Vented Gas Stoves
We want to have a fire in an antique mantel we bought. We have concluded that the mantel will go on the outside wall and the fireplace will vent through the wall. We gave up on the idea of it looking like a fireplace, so …
Comparing Vent-Free Gas Stoves
I kinda had my heart set on adding a gas fire to make our antique mantel look like a real old fireplace. But it’s just not working. Anything that will fit doesn’t put out much heat. With the clearances it says we need, they won’t …
Vented or Non-Vented Built-in Gas Fireplaces
We bought an antique mantel to put into our new house. We want to make the best choice for a gas fireplace to go in it. Vented or Non-Vented At first it seems like a non-vented fireplace might be better. They say they have up …
Finding a Gas Fireplace for Our Mantel
We found an antique wood mantel on Facebook Marketplace while we were building our house. (It is mantel, el. A mantle is clothes. Spellcheck doesn’t catch this one.) We knew we wanted a gas fireplace to go with it, but which one? There were so …
Roof pitch on an A-Frame with Bump-out Shed Dormer
This A-frame house is in our neighborhood. If this feels like a re-run, I wrote a short post about this last year. But we were on a different road and realized we can see the back of it here. So this blog post is more …
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