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My budget for right now is to cover the bare bones basics for winter necessity.
We're OK on food & water - but continuing to build up stores, now I'm working on heat for winter - then on extras like TP / medicines and such.
My plan is to - once the budget allows - add a wood stove unit in place of the generic fireplace we've got in the family room. My preference is to build a new chimney on the opposite side of the house, and put the wood stove down in the basement. That would provide heat (which rises) to more of the home, than with the wood stove at the other end of the home where it has no second story above that room.
When it comes to doing anything with the fireplace THIS YEAR, I just don't have the budget. I'd rather use the limited funds I do have to make sure the basics are well covered, then continue to improve the systems as I have funds available.
We're OK on food & water - but continuing to build up stores, now I'm working on heat for winter - then on extras like TP / medicines and such.
My plan is to - once the budget allows - add a wood stove unit in place of the generic fireplace we've got in the family room. My preference is to build a new chimney on the opposite side of the house, and put the wood stove down in the basement. That would provide heat (which rises) to more of the home, than with the wood stove at the other end of the home where it has no second story above that room.
When it comes to doing anything with the fireplace THIS YEAR, I just don't have the budget. I'd rather use the limited funds I do have to make sure the basics are well covered, then continue to improve the systems as I have funds available.