Wood Heat: A Girl and Boy’s Best Friend
Posted on 28. Oct, 2008 by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Outdoors
If you’ve been following our tribulations, you’ll know that the sighting of a wood-stove on our property is a good thing.
Yes, the long-awaited for wood-stove has arrived!
Once we received the call that our wood-stove had arrived at the dealership, we immediately dropped everything and drove to pick it up. It was almost a three-hour drive each way, but we were bopping and shrieking with glee the entire time. “Blaze King, Blaze King!“, we chanted for three hours–there and back.
At the store, Cameron and three other burly gentleman heaved our stove, the Blaze King Princess, into our trailer. And so we drove it home.
I wasn’t exactly sure how we were going to get the stove out of the trailer and into the house without the three other burly gentlemen. But I decided not to worry about that. Stage one was simply to get the stove on our property. We’d waited a long time for this moment, so I was happy to settle for stage one.
Soon enough, we were tackling stage two: getting the stove from the trailer, up the two-foot non-step step, and into the living room.
In true Cameron optimistic fashion, he figured that if we could move it an inch, we could move it all the way in. And we did!
Our tactic: Move the stove an inch. Stop. Re-evaluate.
Although it took a couple of hours, we moved it inside safely–without any damage to stoves or people.
Once in the living room, we tipped the stove on its side and attached the legs.
Um, here I am in the aforementioned crazy cat lady hat. It really is a nice hat, but it obviously doesn’t work with this outfit either.
Do not be alarmed. The little stove-booties were temporary.
Look, here’s our first fire!
Please join us in a collective sigh of relief.
PS: Here’s a “six-months later” update about our firewood consumption.
Di
Oct 28th, 2008
You both are so cute! I’m so glad your wood stove is there. I was worrying about you both freezing! Congratulations and fire that puppy up!
Nic
Oct 28th, 2008
Congratulations! Its fun following along on your adventure, but I’m glad your adventure didn’t keep going in the cold!
Polly
Oct 28th, 2008
You will enjoy this for many years. Life literally revolves around our stove in the wintertime ( which has already begun).
Lisa
Oct 28th, 2008
OMG how warm are you today?
Nora
Oct 28th, 2008
The first time your power goes out you will know the true joy of being a wood stove owner…….keep alot of soup in your cupboards just in case……and a manual can opener (learned the hard way LOL) Best of Luck and keep warm.
Liz
Oct 28th, 2008
Glad to see you are going to be warm.
Steven Fisher
Oct 28th, 2008
I imagine after spending hours moving it, you were no longer very cold. :)
Andrea
Oct 28th, 2008
(sigh) how you’ll both be cozying up and tossing those toques off! I LOVE the heat of a woodstove, and the novelty of leaving the tea pot or kettle on top to keep it’s contents warm.
And an attractive stove it is – all the more so to you two after months of anticipation. Hooray for wood heat!
Andy Collier
Oct 28th, 2008
We just installed our Scan woodstove last week! Congrats!
mom Marjorie
Oct 29th, 2008
Joining in on the congratulations! I wish you happiness with Blaze King, from the bottom of my heart. Loved reading about your chanting Blaze King for three hours, there and back!!
For what it’s worth: wood heat is very soporific (to me, at least) – anybody else find it so?
Did you put dowling rods underneath the mighty heavy stove to roll it on, to move it to the hearth? At least, isn’t that what the ancients of some civilization (I forget which civilization!) would have done to move huge stones?
Megan
Oct 29th, 2008
Rejoice rejoice in the woodstove! Cozy evenings abound!
Patrick
Oct 29th, 2008
I’ve spent the early morning reading from your trip across the country to the long-awaited arrival of King Blaze the First. Very beautiful country indeed – my mother is from New Brunswick and I am used to many winter trips where the temperature never got above -16 (or 2, in Fahrenheit world, USA). I have had experiences similar to yours, but not nearly as ambitious or wild (having bought a house near the beach with powder post beetles, but still on an urban sized lot).
More to come, I hope!
Kerry
Oct 29th, 2008
Just in the nick of time too, I hear it’s going to 3C on Sunday!
Greensprite
Oct 29th, 2008
Glad to see you warm and cozy!
Ashley
Oct 29th, 2008
We live in an old stone house in France, and for the moment, have only been using our wood stove to heat the house. It works a lot better then I thought. Someone’s just got to be around enough to keep the fire going… I do think that our house is smaller then yours… And come to think of it the weather has to be warmer too…
There is nothing like a nice fire in the winter!
Toni
Oct 30th, 2008
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
Sal
Oct 11th, 2009
Love the stove. You two are so very cute!
Have you noticed that the back drop for the stove is supposed to have some clearance and not be attached to the wall?
Michael
Oct 25th, 2009
Can you tell me if you have double wall insulated pipe on this stove. I have a princess with single wall and am considering double wall insulated to try and avoid creosote due to lower stack temp’s on low burns. If it is double can you advise me of the name brand.
thanks
m.e.
Laura-Jane - Whimfield
Oct 25th, 2009
We did use double-walled pipe on our stove. However, I don’t believe it was “necessary,†but we felt safer and we liked the reduction in maintenance that comes with double-walled pipe. Also, insurance companies seem to like it way more.
Unfortunately, I can’t remember the name of the brand, but it was just the standard double-wall pipe that was carried at our local hardware stores.
How do you like your Princess, Michael? Do you get long burn times?