wrath
Club Member
My insert is roughly 11' from a window in the back porch that we call the "wood window". It's got a lot of cycles on it now and is getting pretty tired. It's a semi-enclosed porch meaning that it is screened in for the summer and then I have polycarbonate I cover the screens with in the winter. I have a rack I made that holds a day's worth of wood at window height in the back porch and I just open the window to get wood. There is a mess on the floor just inside the window from dropping wood on the floor but we have hardwood floors so it's not a big deal. Way better than tracking it through the house though.
It cost ~$2600 for the insert and titanium alloy chimney liner... then about another thousand for a few chainsaws, a couple dozen chains, and a few bars plus some concrete blocks, T-posts, bungee cords, and tarps. It paid for itself after two years, all saved money now. It costs about $300/month to heat with oil so it doesn't take long. I have a fairly good system for dealing with wood but it doesn't work well when the snow is deep. I lived in the Keweenaw Peninsula for quite a while and never thought I'd see this kind of snow downstate.
It cost ~$2600 for the insert and titanium alloy chimney liner... then about another thousand for a few chainsaws, a couple dozen chains, and a few bars plus some concrete blocks, T-posts, bungee cords, and tarps. It paid for itself after two years, all saved money now. It costs about $300/month to heat with oil so it doesn't take long. I have a fairly good system for dealing with wood but it doesn't work well when the snow is deep. I lived in the Keweenaw Peninsula for quite a while and never thought I'd see this kind of snow downstate.
