After buying several stacks of wood to "try" in our fireplace we finally got a great recommendation for a place that seasons their wood in a warehouse for a year! (That's homeowner with a fireplace lingo I am dropping on this blog.) Basically they store the wood in a warehouse to dry out for an entire year before selling to people who have fireplaces (like us) because wet wood doesn't burn as easily. We debated the cost of the wood because it had a delivery charge of $40 and a more local supplier didn't but in the end we obviously paid the delivery charge.
After some phone calls and ensuring delivery today and before the snow expected tomorrow (which would make it more difficult to stack and would get the logs wet) they arrived several hours earlier than expected. The hubby is supervising... (don't get too close to the truck!)
The bed of the truck slowly lifts... but nothing moves...
....until now as the echoes of tumbling logs fills the air.
Uh... now what? Get the wheelbarrow! We ended up carting the wood to the backyard (I lost count how many trips it took) to stack in a stacker thing hubby got from Lowes. Turns out the half cord we ordered was more than what we expected and we also filled the wood ring by the front door and we had to stack some on the front porch.
Then I hear and confirm from searching Google, that a fire actually makes your house colder because it draws the air in from the house to feed the fire which then pulls in the outside (cold) air to replace the air that's been stolen from the fire.... unless you have some crazy contraption built into you fireplace that will push out the hot air from the fireplace into the room ... Shit.
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