You live in Florida, right? How many square feet is your house?
Best,
Leland
Leland R. S. Torrence
Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild
17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT 06525
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Fax: 203-389-7516
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From: adaptive re-use is from the department of repetitive redundancy
division [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rudy
Christian
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [BP] The Sustainability of the Puritan way
Hey Leland,
Here at the center of the universe we have designed our house for electric
hot water radiant backup but have yet to finish installing it so we have
been heating exclusively with wood for several winters. The main heat is
provided with a central chimney system that has three flues. The main fire
is in the central hearth which has a Rumford firebox designed by me and
installed by Gabriel Orgrease. We heated all of October and most of November
with the Rumford and on really cold nights (we've been down to six degrees
one night) fired up either the Wil-Burt cabin heater in the basement or the
top load Mohawk woodstove in the great room. By next winter that will be
replaced with our Elmira wood fired cookstove.
We're burning four to five chords in a season.
Woody
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leland Torrence" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 9:24 AM
Subject: Re: [BP] The Sustainability of the Puritan way
Ruth,
Do you heat exclusively with wood? What kind of stove do you have?
Best,
Leland
Leland R. S. Torrence
Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild
17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT 06525
Office: 203-397-8505
Fax: 203-389-7516
Mobile: 203-981-4004
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.LelandTorrenceEnterprises.com
-----Original Message-----
From: adaptive re-use is from the department of repetitive redundancy
division [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruth
Barton
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 10:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BP] The Sustainability of the Puritan way
Sounds about right, that's about what we burn each winter. It's very labor
(or cost) intensive to live in a cold climate. Ruth
At 3:09 PM -0500 12/8/07, Leland Torrence wrote:
"İeven a modest house required at least twelve tons of woodİ..the average
seventeenth-century New England house consumed fifteen cords, or 1,920
cubic feet, of wood per year, meaning that a town of two hundred homes
depended on the deforestation of as many as seventy-five acres per year."
Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick
Leland R. S. Torrence
Leland Torrence Enterprises and the Guild
17 Vernon Court, Woodbridge, CT 06525
Office: 203-397-8505
Fax: 203-389-7516
Mobile: 203-981-4004
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.LelandTorrenceEnterprises.com
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