Having your house burn down means suddenly all your most remote home improvement projects suddenly move up in priority.
A kachelofen is a masonry heater of German design, and after years of dreaming of having one, we’re incorporating one in the design for the house rebuild (this one is fancy; ours will be simpler). William is a brick/stone mason, so we can do it in-house; he was already going to Germany to train under a master builder of kachelofens, so he’ll have the skills. This is a dream come true. We’ll keep you posted.
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There is always a sunny side. You will love the Ofen😃
Speckstein?
Wow!!we’ve talked about that or a rocket mass heater for 40 years but not done it yet!! Love it! I don’t want a house fire to get one though!! God is blessing you through this fire. He makes beauty from ashes!
We’ve talked about that or a rocket mass heater for years but not done it yet!! Love it! I don’t want a house fire to get one though!! God is blessing you through this fire. He makes beauty from ashes!
We are at the drywall stage of rebuilding post house fire and one of the joys in this season is being able to be absolutely intentional about all the most important issues in our “perfect” house. Of course finances are a challenge but there are so many things that can become affordable in a rebuild. I can make it “ pretty” over time but now is the time to do the core long term projects that will benefit us for years. Praying for your rebuild process.
We are at the drywall stage of rebuilding post house fire and one of the joys in this season is being able to be absolutely intentional about all the most important issues in our “perfect” house. Of course finances are a challenge but there are so many things that can become affordable in a rebuild. I can make it “ pretty” over time but now is the time to do the core long term projects that will benefit us for years. Praying for your rebuild process.
Out of evil, God brings good.
Amen.
WOW! That will be amazing! Dreams that you weren’t sure would happen now will happen. Beauty from the ashes. May it go well! Can’t wait to see the results!
I highly recommend Der/Die/Das [??…] Kachelofen! I worked one summer at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, VA at the German farm, which represented an early 18th-century Palatinate village farmhouse. Fill that thing up with sticks, what we would regard as kindling, fire it up in the morning, and you could still warm your back on it at the end of the day. Plus, no smoke or fire hazard in the “Stube” living room. There was one place where a brick was left out of the wall, so it was one brick less thick in that spot, and you could warm up a drink in it. Supposedly one staff member had one built in his house — you might want to contact them about that. Come to think of it, let me know if you find plans for building one, or someone to build it, since we were thinking of adding another woodstove to the other end of the house — maybe we’ll look into the Kachelofen…
By the way, sorry to hear of your house losses — you are in our prayers. Any way to help defray expenses? We’re at whosefoolfarm@outlook.com.
-Geoff & Barb Suiter.