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From: Liz Ryan Cole (lizryancoleme.com) | |
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:17:06 -0700 (PDT) |
I though folks on this list might be interested in looking at whole house Masonry Heaters. a site well worth visiting - http://www.greenwoodlands.com - the house (this is not cohousing) is an example built to show what can be done when money is not much of an object but the environment is. Greenwoodlands is about 20 minutes from Loch Lyme Lodge (the site for our developing cohousing neighborhood). liz Liz Ryan Cole lizryancole [at] me.com Pinnacle Cohousing at Loch Lyme Lodge Lyme, NH Home 802.785.4124 Work 802.831.1240 Lodge 603-795-2141 On Mar 10, 2012, at 3:40 PM, audrey wrote: > > we at winslow cohousing have a fireplace in our common house, it has glass > doors, and it has a heat recovery venting system to add more heat to the > room. We have a tile hearth, which isn't really deep. We have not had issues > with it, probably because of the glass doors. we have plenty of wood, > harvested from trees on our property, as they have been thinned, or come down > in storms. (we have 5 acres total, an acre+ in woods) We do not have any > other wood fireplaces in the community, by design, some people do have gas > stoves for spots of warmth and "fire" in their individual units. The wood > fireplace adds a homey ambience to the common house in the dark of winter, , > but I bet there are fires in the fireplace less than once a week. > > the wood is stored outside, under a tarp maybe 100 feet from the building. > We have a maintenance schedule that gets the chimney cleaned regularly. > > --audrey > winslow cohousing > bainbridge island, wa > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
- Re: fireplaces, (continued)
- Re: fireplaces Elizabeth Magill, March 9 2012
- Re: fireplaces Peter Orbeton, March 9 2012
- Re: fireplaces Brian Tremback, March 10 2012
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fireplaces audrey, March 10 2012
- fireplaces Liz Ryan Cole, March 12 2012
- Re: fireplaces R.N. Johnson, March 12 2012
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