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baja_turtle
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Fireplace - yes or no?
Hi there! New to the forum, but really enjoying all the knowledgeable info & laughs!
Building our house & wondering about fireplaces...those who have them, do you use them? Those who don't have them, do you wish you did?
Thanks!
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Gaucho
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Where are you building?
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Diver
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They would be a great idea for cold nights but where will you get the wood ?
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bajaguy
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Propane stove or propane gas firelog set
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Packoderm
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They sell nice logs in the Mulege area for about 35 cents apiece. Three of those per night would be nice to set the mood, and that would be an
affordable 30 dollars per month.
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roundtuit
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Fireplace
Wife loves ours. Use it on cool nites. Neighbors hint to come over
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CortezBlue
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I am in San Felipe and just got mine installed during the week of Christmas. I have a sealed direct vent LP zero clearance. We have a very large
family/dining/kitchen great room, and it does a great job of heating it. Just make sure if you do a direct vent that you measure 3 times and cut
once. It is very specific about where to put the hole in the wall and how long the exhaust vent should be.
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Paula
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I do wish we had one here in Loreto. We would use it maybe 10 or 20 or 30 evenings a year.
Firewood is available for sale at a number of houses around town. I'm sure it wouldn't cost very much.
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BajaWarrior
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Yes!
If we hadn't put this stove in our livingroom AND the identical one in our bedroom at our Beach House we'd be sitting around shivering for a few
months each year...
You don't need that much wood for a single season.
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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Paulina
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We have one in our main house and one in the guest house, and use them year round quite often.
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[Edited on 23-2-2009 by Paulina]
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Bajahowodd
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Beautiful fireplaces, Paulina.
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Marie-Rose
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Not sure where you are, but do know that here in TS firewood is a problem.
We will use the propane fire logs if we ever do our firepit.
Remember, when in Mexico, yes may be no and no may be
maybe!
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shari
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2 things I would LOVE to have...first a bathtub and then a good old woodstove. Mesquite is plentiful, long burning and would just take the edge of
some of those cool evenings and mornings...get one!
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Cypress
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Woodstoves!!!
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BajaGringo
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Woodstoves are great and in many parts of Baja there is enough wood available to keep a fire going through winter. The nice thing about wood stoves is
that you can control the air flow which can keep them burning slower and longer...
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LB
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We have a kiva fireplace in our media room, use it in January and Feb
when chilly. It has propane logs, put can burn wood. I'd say YES! And
a jacuzzi... missed a tub, so we added one.
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dianaji
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
2 things I would LOVE to have...first a bathtub and then a good old woodstove. Mesquite is plentiful, long burning and would just take the edge of
some of those cool evenings and mornings...get one! |
yes, would love one also...or a kiva fireplace... where could one be found? which would be most efficient, economical?
would love feedback/advice.
diana
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DanO
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Cold nights in the north in winter for those of us without the luxury of grid-based electricity or unlimited propane. We would have frozen our burros
off over preznit's weekend without the fireplace in the living room and wood stove in the master bedroom. I try to conserve wood by burning only at
night, but there's plenty to be found.
\"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.\" -- Frank Zappa
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baja_turtle
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thanks so much all, for the info !  We're in BCS & still deciding - haven't
been here in the colder months so not sure if we'd use it..
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Woooosh
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Beautiful fireplaces, Paulina. |
very beautiful indeeed.
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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