Sunday, August 15, 2004
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Saint Marie, Assomption
Fireplace is almost finished. Caroline has done all the pointing and this morning I installed the wood burning insert, refitting all the bits back together and connecting up the flue and hot air feed. The silver pipe to the left with the kink is a hot air feed from the fireplace right up to the top floor of the house. Above the 'fire box' there is a separate heating box which generates huge volumes of hot air out of two vents on top of the fire. One is capped off but the other is ducted up through the house to pipe hot air round the house. There is a fan to blow extra hot air, but we have never used it and often have to close the vent upstairs because it can get too hot. The fire is rated at 11 KW, and there is another identical unit the other end of the house that feeds hot air to the second floor. Thats all the heating we have for the whole house, and only when it gets very cold for prolonged periods do we keep both fires running 24 hours a day.
The last bit of work is to clean up the stonework to the left (so it's the same as the right hand side) and build a simple sheet metal shroud (hood?) to cover the outside of the fire and the pipework. Normally these fires are encased in a brick clad 'fake' fireplace but hopefully it should look a bit better with a black tall housing. A slightly simpler version than this.
Caroline spotted some baby Koi Carp in the fish pond this afternoon. Well we think they are baby Koi. They were about 3 or 4 all 2-3cm long, brown (translucent ?) and very difficult to spot against the bottom of the pond. I did see the big Koi thrashing and splashing about in the shallows when is was very warm at the end of June this year, so I'm hoping that they were spawning and this is the result. It would be fantastic to have a pondful because I'm sure there must be more we haven't spotted yet.
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