We have a Kuma stove. Before we go to bed we stoke it with several logs then shut the damper down. Usually I get up at 5 or 6, open the damper and throw a few more logs in and it fires right back up. When it's really cold out I leave the damper open and sleep on the couch so I can add wood every couple of hours.
That explains it, ours is pretty much unattended for like 10 hours, nobody wants to get up and do that LOL
I grew up outside of San Francisco, so no snow. But I've lived all over the place because of husband's job. So I've acclimated. But humidity, ugh.
I put in a forced air propane furnace when I built the house. About the only time we use it is when we're going to be gone all day or overnight. Then I set the thermostat at 61 degs. Unless the outside temps are in the single didgets or lower, the furnace rarely comes on. Since we live totally on solar I don't like using the furnace too much. The only exception is if the backup generator is already running, then sometimes I'll turn the furnace on.
Google gives me something on the Japanese stock exchange or a power company in India.
A number of years ago, I heard about this phenomenon that goes on with men and women. Women vent and men want to fix the problem. Women don't necessarily want them to fix it, they just want to vent and to let off steam.
I totally believe that!
My house was built in 1890. One of the previous owners removed the stairs to the basement and built a basement entrance outside. Where the basement stairs started upstairs is now a small but efficient powder room. But that is by the kitchen and the kitchen floor is not level. I think that something structural was removed in the basement when the stairs were removed. I have wondered about this and repairing it or getting it repaired. I am certainly not the only person in my area with this problem. I have seen people asking about getting their floors leveled.
I used to watch videos of a couple in Canada who did this, lifted their house and put a basement underneath it. They did the work themselves.
We did that for the project house. We hand dug the basement. We had to lift the house to replace all of sill plates.
I never read the code book
