Mercury News: San Ramon: Fire at historic Harlan House being investigated as arson
SAN RAMON — For years, as he waited to get a final approval to build an assisted living center at the historic Harlan House he owns, Sohail Siddiqi worried that it might succumb to its age or a fire.
You can try bracing it to the house by attaching steel brackets of some sort to the chimney and structure of the house to buy you a year, maybe, but even then i wouldnt want a couple 2x4's to hold up thousands of pounds of brick and masonry. Is there just that one flue in the chimney?
I am strongly considering switching to wood pellets or corn to heat my house. I currently heat with an outdoor wood boiler, but I need something that I can leave for a day and not worry about tending the fire every 6-8 hours. I was planning on an indoor pellet boiler, but I would need to do...
The house is fairly well insulated with good windows. It runs fairy stable around 60 on second floor. I run first floor at around 65. this is with temps in the teens at night and twentees durring the day. I would like tolike it warmer but wood supply and homemade boiler can only do so much. Jensen wood boiler 250 gal storage 1970 C30 dump 1200 ...
Two story house - radiant in-floor on main floor only - who's done it ...
Our house was built in 2009 and it has a beautiful fireplace with an insert. We didn't do too many fires last winter (maybe 1) but this year are wanting to use it more.