Kismet's Life in Maine

kismet said:

It's a Hampton insert...we love it. Pretty much heated our house (2300 sq ft) this winter (used a tiny, (really tiny) amount of oil vs last year...of course milder winter and oil prices down but still). Think it has 3 burn chambers, it has hi and lo fan settings, easy to clean the glass...one of the best things we've done with this old house(1850) so far....

Is it oil or gas? Or something else?

Wood.

http://www.regency-fire.com/Home.aspx

It's the small Hampton HI200 model.

Ah, thank you!

My parents had a fireplace insert very similar to that. In theirs, the long "box" in front of the fireplace was a fan that circulated the warm air from the fire once it was going. It was a bit noisy, being an early model, but it was a helpful thing to have. Particularly in power outages...

Yep, wood. Love it!

http://www.regency-fire.com/Products/Hampton-Wood-Gas/Cast-Iron-Stoves,-Fireplaces---Inserts/HI200.aspx

My cousin, always the prankster.... anyways, he had an employee who wasn't too bright. Cousin Bob has a vacation house in Vt. and it has a wood stove insert, engineered to burn highly efficiently.

Bob bragged about the stove to the employee..."It is so well engineered, you can light the stove in October and it will stay lit all winter."

So Bob invites the employee for a February weekend in Vt.  As usual, Bob called the next door neighbor to light the stove so the house would be hot when they arrived.

They get to the warm house and the stove has glowing embers.

Bob: "See, like I told you. The fire will last all winter."

A couple of minutes goes by and the employee, "Hey, you can't fool me. You were up here last month."

We have had fireplaces in all our houses, yet we never used them. But once we bought a house in CT that had a wood burning stove, we never looked back. Now, we have fires going nearly every day all winter, and our family room stays toasty. At bedtime, we open the doors to the second floor, and the warm air rises to warm up the bedrooms while we wash up. It is magical.

kismet said:

http://www.regency-fire.com/Products/Hampton-Wood-Gas/Cast-Iron-Stoves,-Fireplaces---Inserts/HI200.aspx

I tried linking too, but that dern comma screws it up.

This is what is happening across the street from our home

http://damariscottamills.org/photogallery.html#http://damariscottamills.org/photo_gallery3.htmlTh

I would so love to live there!  

Shad?

PeggyC said:

My parents had a fireplace insert very similar to that. In theirs, the long "box" in front of the fireplace was a fan that circulated the warm air from the fire once it was going. It was a bit noisy, being an early model, but it was a helpful thing to have. Particularly in power outages...

The fan motor didn't require electricity?

sac said:

PeggyC said:

My parents had a fireplace insert very similar to that. In theirs, the long "box" in front of the fireplace was a fan that circulated the warm air from the fire once it was going. It was a bit noisy, being an early model, but it was a helpful thing to have. Particularly in power outages...

The fan motor didn't require electricity?

I had one of these in a house in PA.  Yes, it did require electricity to operate the fan if you wanted to use the fireplace for some heating.  The fireplace also worked like a regular wood burning one, which is how I generally used it.  The fan in mine wasn't noisy, IMO.   

A co-worker used one of those heavy duty cast iron inserts for heating purposes---now that thing really generated a lot of heat into the room.

Alewives...in the herring family. Yep, has a fan that requires electricity but it's not noisy and you do not have to have it on...

I have a heat-o-later (circa 1970s) no electricity is required because the heat from the fire moves the fan which pushes the heat into the room. I can feel the results of the fan, but have never heard it. It was a godsend during Sandy (and 11 days without power) I have a partially open floor plan, and the fireplace heats the family room and kitchen, very well.

I have a big dog and a cat to heat the bedroom.

My parents' unit did require electricity for the fan to run, but even in a power outage, the insert would provide more heat to the house than an ordinary fireplace where all the heat escapes up the chimney. I should have been more clear.

Can't get enough

Happening right now, we have 3 sets of osprey (3 immature eagles are there too)

The last one belongs in the Audubon contest.

GORGEOUS!

Magnificent.

I wait for this to bloom (at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens each year)

beautiful!

Out on the lake last night for Solstice/Full Strawberry Moon

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A last little piece of "living in Maine" ....a pick up truck-  so useful (and Penny loves it)

That's a lovely-looking dog you have there.