Page 2, Jamnary 17, 1979. - ‘North Shore News H's pretty - andi it works When we. moved i in the wood stove it seemed Tike’ a good idea. But we didn’t intend to heat our home with it - it was more of a cross between an interesting objec anc a garbage. . wood stove dealer came and installed it, and there burner. The it sat on the lowest floor of our open plan house. - It's: pretty, if such a term can be used. Made in France, from molds that have .been in use for 125 years,. our Petit Godin is an lined with upright cylinder, -firebrick. It loads from the top and the ashes are emp-- ties from the bottom, and the air feed is adjustable by means of. a simple screw-in device... I meant to get a load of firewood off the beach, but summer was sailing time, and then the Vancouver Sun went on strike and business - . came first. So we ordered four cords of pressed sawdust logs (about 4$200 with cartage), and when it got cold enough we [it the stove rather than turn up the thermostat. - Wonder of wonders. We haven't had the gas furnace on to any degree yet this winter, and as you know it's been exceptionally cold outside. The syove heats the north shore | the Exctse Tax Act.ts published each Wednesday and Sunday by the North Shore Free Preas Lid and distributed to every door an the North Shore Second Class Mad Registration Number 3885 VERIFIED CIRCULATION 47 ASI ‘Entre contenta€. 1979 Month Shore Free Prose Lid. All rights reserved. f __ of garbage in the household. entire house, and very ef- ficiently. It’s a bonus that I hadn't expected. . So far we’ve burned about two and a half cords. Last winter our oil bill for another house was over $50 per month during the cold months. This winter our per . month wood cost appears to be about $35.....and that is with us burning | pressed sawdust logs. If I did my own scrounging and chopping the cost would be considerably less. GENTLE HEAT There are other, more important bonuses. One of them is that the house is heated with gentle heat that rises up the staircase under its own power. There is no fan required, and con- sequently the house stays a lot cleaner in terms of dust. Mary sometimes dries her laundry around the stair- case. She says it’s amazingly fast to dry. ‘Another bonus is the lack While the dealer doesn’t recommend burning garbage (too many chimney fires are caused that way, and some of the plastics give ‘Off noxious fumes when burned) the stove seems to have a good appetite for paper. and wood scraps, and as you know there’s a lot of packaging and newspapers » etc. in our houscholds. The third advantage is harder to describe. There’s a difference between wood heat and a conventional heat source like a furnace. It could be the lack of noise, I think, but it also has to do with the quality of the heat. The stove radiates warmth. I find that our family kind of naturally congregates around it especially just after we light it. The crackle of the kindling and the dance of thie flames through the mica window seems to soothe and relax everyone. An old man wrote once that wood heat gets you warm twice. “Once when you cut it, and again when you burn it”. I didn’t cut this handmade 20% MJ GERAMIC CENTRE WESTVANCOUVER p wood, but I can testify that it feels good to build a fire and tend it. he stove will run up to twelve hours on a ‘fill’ if the air feed is properly regulated. We fill it before . bedtime, and usually the logs have burned down to a red- morning. A fresh log placed: on the embers will catch, and within a few minutes after the draft has been opened the house is receiving the gentle v warmth of the wood. DEALER pIDIT —The_dealer (in this case, the Woodstove installed the stove for me. I recommend this procedure. They know what they're doing. They built reflective galvanized iron panels for the area behind the stove and a galvanized ‘pan’ un- derneath it. The pan is full of - smooth river stones, which absorb the heat from the stove and ‘even out’ the heat _ flow. We have an old kettle, made of heavy.cast metal. We leave it on. the stove twenty-four hours a day, refilling it with water as necessary to majntain the desired level of humidity: in ‘our home. A word of caution: wood stoves get very hot at times. Make sure the installation is done’ properly, and also make sure the stove is placed where no one will fall against it. There are many models on the market now, some Canadian made. If you are looking at stoves, see that it is truly air-tight. Some models have parts that fit together so loosely that the simply are not air-tight at all. They. suck air through crevices that are not sup- posed to leak, making it impossible to control the rate at which the fuel burns. This makes the stove fine as a decoration, but useléss as a heater. Information on wood- stoves and heaters on the North Shore is available from the Woodstove Gallery and Woodbum Fuels. We leave the gas furnace thermostat at about sixty degrees. Should the fire go out (it happens -but rarely) the furnace comes on and maintains our home at a marginal heat level until somcone builds a new fire. otter OFF y sale S285 MARINE DR Y20-8448 Gallery) _ {gin this 16” Color TV and Hitachi's solid- 16”” SOLID-S TATE PORT ABLE. COLOR TV WITH ELECTRONIC . - TUNINGIREMOTE CONTROL - e This portable Color TV by: ‘Hitachi-sets a eanew high in elegance! There’s an Hitachi saLuminar it Electronic. Lens Full Beam #2 Color picture tube with the extra focus lens brightness - and contrast to room light conditions. 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