Neiklot: A selfsufficient journey in Sweden

[Neiklot]

Thank's! Fun to be back! And finally my life will start over again, for real!
Yup, hard work but like you said wyoDreamer, a lot of satisfaction!

Joel_BC: Hm.. no, I'm sorry. But it is only 80 km to Växjö.

 

[Neiklot]

We are going to build an extension, about 30 square meters, to the house.
Big familiy, need space.. ;-)
(5 kids and number 6 on it's way! :O )

 

[wyoDreamer]

What kind of wood stove do you use to heat your house?
We bought a big old farmhouse about a year ago. Last summer we installed a pellet insert into the big, draft making fireplace. Since our land is all pasture and farm field, we figured it would be easier for us to do wood pellets than cutting firewood. Plus, we are not getting any younger and wood heat is really hard work.
At our place in Wyoming, we almost completely heated our 2000+ square foot house with 2 woodstoves. It took over 8 cord of firewood for a winters worth of heat.

 

[Britesea]

I wish we could build a Rocket Mass Heater because they take less wood and don't add to the air pollution, but we don't have the money to beef up the house foundation to handle the weight of the stove.

 

[wyoDreamer]

I want to try making a RMH out in the greenhouse when we build it. The idea would be to build the planting beds on the heated benches. You really don't need to heat the entire greenhouse if you can keep the planting bed and area directly above them warm. I am thinking of making a plastic cover to put over the plants inside the greenhouse, to hold the warmth close the the plants - only to be used during the coldest parts of winter to keep lettuce, spinach, and other cool season crops alive.

 

[Britesea]

good idea! I read that a 3-4 hour burn will give you residual heat for something like 10 hours, so you wouldn't need to have a fire going at night when there's no one out there to watch it.