Finding free firewood can save thousands of dollars every year! Filling the woodroom - it's one of our Top 5 "W" chores every spring. And we have been hard at it for the last several weeks. And we love heading out to the bush where we'll find free firewood! Once winter temperatures hit -20C, we turn on two basement baseboard heaters, just so water lines … [Read more...]
How to Clean Out a Wood stove
Learn how to clean out a wood stove - and make this a weekly part of your routine! Fall and winter afternoons can be beautiful in the Cariboo. The mornings are often cold though. And it’s time this morning to get that weekly chore done – clean out the wood stove. Read on to find some awesome cleaning tricks to quickly clean up the mess. Why You Need to Clean out Wood Stoves Our … [Read more...]
Wood Stove Fan – Ecofan 812AMXBX AirMax Product Review
We heat almost totally with wood here - although we have electric back up, we don't turn on any electric heat unless winter temperatures go down to -20 Celsius. We use our woodstove a lot - but we still needed a little something to push that woodstove heat into our living room. And that's why I bought a wood stove fan. It's an Ecofan 812AMXBX AirMax and I LOVE it so much I want to write … [Read more...]
Bacon & Eggs on the Woodstove
Not long ago, I wrote about some of the virtues of a woodstove. Not only is a woodstove a great way to heat your home, it can also be used for cooking. Since our woodstove has a flat top, we use it for cooking fairly often, especially when it is Really Cold outside. There's something very satisfying about cooking on a woodstove - I'm not sure what it is. Maybe it's the warmth from the … [Read more...]
Cooking on the Wood Stove
Having a wood stove for heat is an wonderful thing - being able to cook on it is even better. We love cooking on the wood stove. But, our wood stove is NOT a cook stove, it is just a wood stove for heating our home. Doesn't matter! We are able to cook on it because our stove has a flat top. We have electric heat as well, although we don't even turn on the baseboard heaters unless it is -20C … [Read more...]