Thread: So I woke up on Saturday and bought a house.

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Flippy floppies make you jelly?






This is what charcoal looks like.


Build it into a hut.




Torch the center for a quick bit.




Before blowing in it for a minute or two.


After blowing on it for a minute or two.


Spread it around after this to get good heat distribution and toss on that meat.



One more thing checked off the list.

werd, I owned a grill like that, made some of the best food I've ever done on a grill with it. Then I 'upgraded' to one of those fancy big ones... not worth the money.

Also, girl got a booty!

Yeah it's really pokin out in that one.

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Our chimney did not come with a flue damper. There was no spot for one inside the flue, so we had one put on top after we took the gas log box out. Here is a picture of Steve from Steve's Sweep installing the damper.



Since then we've had water raining down every time we open it. I eventually got up on the roof to see if water was pooling up somewhere and leaking in when it was opened. This is what I found.













So it looks like condensation to me.

The hamster started spinning the wheel. It would appear that now the hot steamy air from cooking and taking showers and such travels up the chimney where it cools and then the water condenses. This not only rains down on us when we open the damper, but it has also soaked the chimney through, and there are even drops we can see in the attic.

I'm going to talk to our home inspector about it and see what he thinks. For now, we are not fully shutting the damper and it seems to vent enough to prevent this problem.



The fires are nice though! =D

hot like fire!

Mini update. Got a subwoofer for the living room. Check it all out here:

http://www.sr20-forum.com/offtopic/53568-recommend-stand-alone-home-theater-subwoofer-going-2-0-2-1-setup.html

Where's the pic of your sister?

Mini updates are exempt.

The GF and brother make a cameo. _

I really want a giant clock for our living room to put over the fireplace mantel. I want something about 3 feet in diameter. We've been looking at available clocks and most of them are not that big. We did find a 42" diameter one at a store so we cut out that size in cardboard to see what it would be like.

Here is the giant 42" clock we found.


This is how big it would be on the wall.




42" looks to be a bit too big. Not to mention the clock itself isn't really a design I'm excited about. It is weird how picky I got about the clock once I started looking into them. There are so many different ways to display the numbers and such. Do you keep all the numbers level, or do you rotate them as they go around? Arabic or Roman numbers? Etc.

I decided to cut out a 36" circle and see what that looked like.



That is just about right. I want to take up most of the space without going insane.

Here's a typical 29" or whatever clock at the store. Not nearly big enough.



We decided we'd make our own clock. You can buy huge clock movements online and that's probably what we're going to do when I get the time and motivation.

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These updates are a little out of order. No big deal.
With the new damper for the chimney we needed something to burn wood on. I'd always heard andirons were better for a fireplace than a grate because it allows the wood to drop into the embers and burn more. It makes sense to me, and I've always liked the look of a simple andiron way more than a fireplace grate so I went on the hunt.

As it turns out, andirons (also called fire dogs for those searching) these days are completely out of fashion, insanely expensive, and totally gaudy. It took a long time to find some that were simple, functional, and priced properly. Buck Stove has then in different sizes, and they are in North Carolina which is nice to know.

Our fire box is 18" deep so we could get the 16" andirons (the longest they sell).









Oh we also picked up some fire poking and sweeping tools at a local fireplace shop.




We have a friend who knows a wood-worker who makes bowels and other items. He always has tons of good scrap wood so she gave us some. It isn't easy to build a fire with this type of wood on the andirons but we've managed.