Sentences with phrase «old wood burns»

An old wood burning stove fuelled with well seasoned firewood and pinecones gathered from the garden provides welcome warmth — even in the summer months the nights are cool in this mountainous region.

Not exact matches

The wood was old and dry, and I knew it would burn hot and fast.

The barrels for burning wood down to coals are made in town with old truck axles and industrial piping.

It fell easily; one wing snagged on a fir top; the metal fell down the air and smashed into the thin woods where cattle browse; the fuel exploded, and Julie Norwich, seven years old, burnt off her face....

We spent winter nights by the wood burning stove, heated with apple wood, drinking hard cider and started reading about older apple varieties.

The oldest pizzeria in the United States is at 53 Spring Street in New York City, where a Neapolitan named Gennaro Lombardi set up a wood - and coal - burning pizza oven in 1905.

But according to radiocarbon dating of burnt wood bits found in the plaster and from surrounding strata, it is by far the oldest known Mayan writing — dating from between 300 and 200 B.C., which is roughly concurrent with the earliest writings of other Mesoamerican cultures.

One of the oldest air conditioners to be built on this principle burned wood to supply the heat and was introduced at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1878.

I would spend hours making Mud Pies in the sloppy mess in our back yard where we had an old burn barrel, and I would take my pies back into the woods to my little «fort» where I had created a peaceful, quiet little world all my own.

A couple of old pieces of wood I pulled out of the burn pile.

House features all hardwood floors except for ceramic tile kitchen, remodeled kitchen, replaced windows, 7 year old roof, fenced yard, 2 car garage and a wood burning fireplace.

The Wentworth Suite has a beautiful old wood - burning fireplace, and a spa bathroom including a shower.

The Blaxland Suite has a beautiful old wood - burning fireplace, and a spa bathroom including a shower.

Reminiscent of an old world, the Lexington Suite exudes classic southern elegance with a masculine, equestrian charm with wood beamed ceilings, hardwood floors, and a large wood - burning fireplace.

Made out of old, recycled frames and the most raw materials, «Too Young To Burn» is an exploration of both physical and metaphorical mediums, with fire penetrating each and every element, from wood to paper to drawings.

The government is offering incentives ranging from $ 300 to $ 900 to replace old polluting wood stoves and fireplaces with cleaner - burning modern models.

Advanced combustion stoves and fireplaces burn wood about 90 per cent cleaner and one - third more efficiently than older conventional appliances.

That gas is burned to create heat and electricity, or is refined as a fuel for cars... Kristianstad also burns gas emanating from an old landfill and sewage ponds, as well as wood waste from flooring factories and tree prunings.

Like with wood burning stoves / furnaces still present in older houses in Estonia and Latvia, you can not close the damper when there are still flames, the opportune moment for maximum effectiveness (as not to lose too much valuable heat) to close the damper is when the flames are gone, leaving just live coals / embers that do not emit CO..

* Hint: look for a system which is fully automatic (okay, take a moment to yearn for the rush of heat when opening the pot - belly to add a log and the old - fashioned levers for adjusting airflow) and which uses pellets or another form of fuel designed to deliver consistent burning performance (and say goodbye to «a man who cuts his own wood is twice warmed»).

(Dunster was also architect for BedZED) The Jubilee Wharf project in this old Cornish town has a big zero in carbon emissions, four 6 Kw turbines, and a wood pellet biomass boiler that burns «cleanly and efficiently what is effectively compacted rubbish.»

And in an age when Hollywood celebrities are flaunting their hybrid cars and brandishing their reusable shopping bags, Dunn, who grew up on a Kansas farm, whittled down his carbon footprint the old - fashioned way: by riding a beat - up old bike, air - drying his clothes, eating the vegetables he grows in his backyard and heating his home with a wood - burning furnace.

Old stoves and fireplaces are inefficient; if you're going to be burning wood to keep warm during the winter, the green thing to do is to make sure that as much of the heat that is produced by combustion is released into your home and isn't going out the chimney.

The most striking thing about the Hassela reform centre, apart from the apple blossom, the thick white candles burning on the breakfast tables and the smell of old wood from the ancient eaves of the dining room, is the silence.

Here you will find lots of surprise fun (mandated sewer projects; 40 year old furnaces or frozen and cracked radiators connected to burnt - out boilers; single - pane wood frame windows in snow country; inadequate or completely missing or worse, outdated insulation; gutters broken by ice damns; etc.) but you also get the added challenge of really tight margins between purchase and sales price coupled with severely limited number of qualified and interested buyers.

A wood - burning stove tucked away in the corner of a 100 - year - old home became a selling asset with the help of stagers Heather Cook and Alana Merritt, co-owners of Rooms in Bloom Home Staging & Design Inc. in Kitchener, Ontario.

That's me, rosy - cheeked from the heat, promising my future self that a wood - burning fireplace would mark the center of my future home, once I was old enough to own one.

Nice older 2 story, 3 bedrooms, bath, living, dining, kitchen, nice 2 car garage with wood burning stove.

10:33 am — Decide to go with Benjamin Moore's «Burnt Peanut Red» on our new (old) closet doors, and start installing the rest of our wood planks on the ceiling collapse from exhaustion, eat way too much food, and watch The Vow.

that I wish I could figure out what to do with it... its the old time red brick in a corner with a wood burning stove on it....

I'm in a new (old 1959) house and finally have a real wood burning fireplace.

Taking inspiration from the age - old process of burning wood that has its origins in the Japanese Shou Sugi Ban technique, the Quick • Step team burned hundreds of pieces of pine to achieve the perfect color and texture.

The sun porch, just off the kitchen, features a wood burning stove and a table custom made by local artisan Clint Harp using reclaimed wood from the floors of an old mansion.

I also got very excited about using a wood burning pen and dug mine out from my old crafting box from junior high!

To top off the living room's welcoming, wood - burning fireplace, Sarah created a unique mantel from a fragment of an old bay window.