Fireplace

[Sigarms]

You guys have some BEAUTIFUL fireplaces.

Forgot how much they can really make a room.

 

[Lloyd_E]

With all of these 'modern' fireplaces here is my 'unmodern' one.

The land was surveyed in 1765 and the house built shortly there after.
We have been restoring it over the last 16 years. The fire place and bake oven are in place and functional - although I haven't hooked up the bake oven flue to the SS liner as yet.

We replaced the plywood (surrounding the fireplace) with 18"x1.5" pine planks with a hand plane bead edge - ship lapped. This was a fun project. The vermont casting heats the whole house - have not turned the furnace on yet and don't plan to. This will be the first year trying to heat the house on wood alone - no complaints from the other family members - yet!

Lloyd

 

[Egon]

Looks good Lloyd!

 

[WayneB]

so, in thinking about building our new home, i really want a real stone fire place in our main living area.......not for the heat, necessarily, but for the cozy feeling you get.....it would only be lit on weekends or special occasions..........then, i'm thinking about some sort of wood burner in the basement.........

When you start planning that fireplace take a look at the Rumford designs. Really neat and put out a bunch of heat...

What Is A Rumford

 

[grassroots2323]

Flatheadyoungin
Thanks for the thumbs up. Yes I had it laid out that way as we were building our home. I had always wanted that design since I was young. I had never seen one inside like this one until I started looking on the internet for stone colors, then there were several pics. The wife really didn't know if she would like the dry stack until it was finished. Now it's one of the favorites. Her favorite is the outside fireplace. Thought it was simple but not overbearing in the room.

 

[WBWI]

Here's mine. Fireplace is a Quadrafire 7100fp.

 

[gsganzer]

Here's a photo of ours.

 

[Ductape]

Not too bad for cuddling up with the wife as well

You WANT to cuddle up with your wife???

 

[Flatheadyoungin]

how are you guys supporting all that weight if you have a basement?

 

[EddieWalker]

Here's a photo of ours.

WOW, how did you get the wife to let you put the wildebeest up inside the house? You're doing better then I am. All my mounts are out in my workshop.

Eddie

 

[JB4310]

QUOTE: how are you guys supporting all that weight if you have a basement?


If there is a basement, the whole footprint of the masonry structure continues through the 1st floor to a footing below the basement floor, only the hearths are partly or wholely supported by reinforced wood framing.

JB.

 

[gsganzer]

WOW, how did you get the wife to let you put the wildebeest up inside the house? You're doing better then I am. All my mounts are out in my workshop.

Eddie

It was really easy to get the wifes approval to let me hang the Wildebeest over the fireplace. The only other animal I have that would fit, was a warthog!

 

[Steve_Miller]

I was lucky, my father was a mason so I not only got the fireplace, I also built the whole house with brick. Mine is in the dining room as opposed to the living room.

Steve

 

[MikeInEburg]

Here is ours - way better than the old brick facade that we once had.

The very best part is the mantle - which is one of the original logs from the civil war era log cabin that is now our kitchen. This particular log was in direct ground contact for at least 50 years as a footer for an old tool shed that we renovated. It then sat in the weather for two years while we thought of something to do with it... We cleaned it up but left the tool markings from when it was originally cut some 150+/- years ago.
Mike

 

[jinman]

I was lucky, my father was a mason so I not only got the fireplace, I also built the whole house with brick. Mine is in the dining room as opposed to the living room.

Steve

Wow! Steve, that's a beautiful setting and a lovely house.

I rented a house (actually one floor of a 3-story house) in Port Deposit, MD when I was in the US Navy and going to a technical school in Bainbridge, MD. That house had originally been built with a fireplace in every room (kitchen, living room, bedrooms) I can't imagine the amount of wood it must have took to keep all those fireplaces going. When I lived there, the fireplaces were blocked off and steam heating was used, but it had not always been that way.

 

[asylum575]

Sure is the time of year to admire fireplaces. I'm planning a wood stove for next year, sure wish I had planned on it for this winter. Hey, look at the bright side. If I install a wood stove for next winter, it's a lock that we'll have a mild winter.