Comments on: Woodstove Redux: Educating Your Building Inspector

By: j. abnet

j. abnet — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:29:56 +0000

Can you please advise what gage (thickness) and approx. cost of your copper sheeting? Is it possible to inform me as to where you purchased it?
Thanks !

By: Hien

Hien — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:39:39 +0000

Thanks a lot for sharing your work thru some imagined problems to deal with inspectors. It also encourages me to learn more, in order I can be able to make my woodstove change into a new setup, which will be checked and cerified by an inspector.

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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:18:09 +0000

[...] spring we had a wood stove installed. Honestly, wood isn’t cheaper than gas heat right now ($350+ per cord) unless you truck it in [...]

By: Di

Di — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:00:46 +0000

Mike, aside from the practical it does look stylish!

By: mike.martin

mike.martin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:45:30 +0000

Thanks, you guys! Ernie (my brother-in-law), we’ll screen the stove from the knuckleheads, or just not burn it when you visit. And Alex — I know, me too. We had a wood and coal fired boiler when I was growing up, as well as the world’s dumbest fireplace. The guy who built our house made a heat exchanger that fit inside the fireplace, so that he could heat water and circulate it through the house. Not a bad idea, except that you couldn’t fit a lot of wood in the damned thing. A wood stove would have made more sense, though you have to find a way to move the air around or the rooms farthest from the stove get too cold. Anyway, after paying for several New England winters, and with energy prices still climbing, I understand why my dad heated with wood. But I still don’t know why we had to move the #$%! woodpiles from one end of the property to the other all the time….

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:15:13 +0000

Wow, dude, you just took me right back to my childhood! Woodstoves! Hope all is well, hope to see yu soon!

By: One o' your Arlingtonian friends

One o' your Arlingtonian friends — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:50:58 +0000

That’s a kick-ass stove, and a kick-ass way to deal with the inspector. Here’s to research!

By: mike.martin

mike.martin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:41:33 +0000

Thanks; I think that’s my first Woot ever!

By: dave a

dave a — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:39:46 +0000

w00t! It looks awesome.

By: mike.martin

mike.martin — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:29:10 +0000

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….