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    Fisher Help for an amateur

    Hi All! What a great forum! Never posted here before and I'm looking for some help. I tried to find my answers in previous posts without much luck, so I apologize if this a repeat. If so any help finding the previous thread would be very much appreciated. Anyhow, I saved a Fisher (i'm thinking...
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    Stove advice - First wood burner, new house build

    Hi everyone, First post so I hope you will forgive me the wall of text I am working on a new house build and I wanted to get some advice on wood burning stove. To start, and y'all may make fun of me for this, but we live in North Texas. The primary function of the house will be a vacation...
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    What to use to level hearth?

    Link Removed I’ll save you from the long back story and just get right to the point. We decided to remove the old red tile from our hearth and plan on replacing it with clay thin brick pavers. We removed the tiles but still have the old mortar(?) underneath. Since we want the pavers to just...
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    Just bought a VC Vigilant stove from a friend

    I bought a Vigilant stove with a brown ceramic like finish. Tag on the back is dated 9/25/80. I was hoping and thinking it was a wood stove. The stove was not what I have seen in a typical wood burner, that I have seen in the past. After some research the of the mysterious items that came with...
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    PE Alderlea T6 first fire & break in period?

    My wife and I just built a new house. We have a brand new Pacific Energy Alderlea T6 stove and about 6 cord of seasoned and split oak, maple, and ash. We have read the owners manual cover-to-cover however we have a few questions. What is a good guideline for the first fire and subsequent...
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    New to burning, questions about Canawick bricks

    Title says it all. Just bought a little house, its about 1600sq ft. Bought a new woodstove, hearthstone shelburne. Decided to burn firebricks rather than cordwood as storing four cord of wood was out of the question, and heard good reviews about the bricks being cleaner etc. So my question...
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