WEDNESDAY NUMBER ONE IN SEPTEMBER
Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 4:18 amGOOD MORNING TO ALL!
39 degrees here today, nice and crystal clear sky out there. Cedar has another perfect day to camp! I hadn't thought about using my oil-filled heater to stay warm in the trailer when I'm at a campsite with power, but that would be a great addition.
Talked to Ace Hardware about chimney prospects yesterday....unbelievable cost to get this chimney up to code, or to install another triple-layered pipe altogether out through a wall of the house. To have anybody else install the inside one, cost would be about $2500...just for the pipe, cap, wrap and labor! To have anyone else do the outside pipe, which would be extremely risky at best due to the pitch of my steel roof and the weight of wet snow that thunders off it all winter, would be about $4500. Needless to say, having a pro company install anything is out of the question for me.
However, I did learn that they now have a stainless steel flexible stove pipe, designed to go over ledges and around corners with no riveting of elbows, etc. SOOOOO......I am going to order a length of that enough to go at least half way up my fireplace chimney, and, after someone---maybe my daughter or her guy or my son----cleans out the flue by ramming the steel brush up and down it, I will reattach the stove as I have done for over 30 years now. And that will be that. To be up to code, that pipe has to go to top of chimney, be wrapped all along its length with some kind of wrap, and have a cap installed on the top of it. POOOH to that. That's my plan. It will be wonderful not to have to deal with all those elbows and screws and rivets to keep the pipe together while fitting it around the smoke shelf. Now I just need to estimate how long a length of that pipe I will need.....I'll shove a steel tape measure up as high as I want it to go.
Coffee tastes good, and I turned on some heat using my Monitor heater as it was around 58 in here when I came in from trailer. One mouse this morning, bringing total to 20 now.
Kids come to school today, and we have our first assembly this morning. It will be interesting to meet my new kids I will be working with. They are high school kids with various degrees of learning disabilities. One student has Aspberger's Syndrome, and loves science---my favorite subject----so we should have some fun in Science classes. He will probably be teaching me! There are only 6 kids and three of us to teach them. I will be following students to various classes, as they are attempting to include them in regular classes with help from me.
Pull up a chair, and let us know what's up in your world----will check back in after school this afternoon. Happy Wednesday to you all.
39 degrees here today, nice and crystal clear sky out there. Cedar has another perfect day to camp! I hadn't thought about using my oil-filled heater to stay warm in the trailer when I'm at a campsite with power, but that would be a great addition.
Talked to Ace Hardware about chimney prospects yesterday....unbelievable cost to get this chimney up to code, or to install another triple-layered pipe altogether out through a wall of the house. To have anybody else install the inside one, cost would be about $2500...just for the pipe, cap, wrap and labor! To have anyone else do the outside pipe, which would be extremely risky at best due to the pitch of my steel roof and the weight of wet snow that thunders off it all winter, would be about $4500. Needless to say, having a pro company install anything is out of the question for me.
However, I did learn that they now have a stainless steel flexible stove pipe, designed to go over ledges and around corners with no riveting of elbows, etc. SOOOOO......I am going to order a length of that enough to go at least half way up my fireplace chimney, and, after someone---maybe my daughter or her guy or my son----cleans out the flue by ramming the steel brush up and down it, I will reattach the stove as I have done for over 30 years now. And that will be that. To be up to code, that pipe has to go to top of chimney, be wrapped all along its length with some kind of wrap, and have a cap installed on the top of it. POOOH to that. That's my plan. It will be wonderful not to have to deal with all those elbows and screws and rivets to keep the pipe together while fitting it around the smoke shelf. Now I just need to estimate how long a length of that pipe I will need.....I'll shove a steel tape measure up as high as I want it to go.
Coffee tastes good, and I turned on some heat using my Monitor heater as it was around 58 in here when I came in from trailer. One mouse this morning, bringing total to 20 now.
Kids come to school today, and we have our first assembly this morning. It will be interesting to meet my new kids I will be working with. They are high school kids with various degrees of learning disabilities. One student has Aspberger's Syndrome, and loves science---my favorite subject----so we should have some fun in Science classes. He will probably be teaching me! There are only 6 kids and three of us to teach them. I will be following students to various classes, as they are attempting to include them in regular classes with help from me.
Pull up a chair, and let us know what's up in your world----will check back in after school this afternoon. Happy Wednesday to you all.
OK, off to get ready for another day. Enjoy yours. carold
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