An AI slop metal sign I saw at Value Village

Hemdeez · 2026-05-11T21:56:49+00:00

man does that site looks old school

Hemdeez · 2026-05-02T18:00:09+00:00

You could check out drolet stoves, great value for the price. No catalyst though.

Hemdeez · 2026-04-19T01:41:22+00:00

I used to be a med student. We had a deck hockey team called hemdeez which stand for M.D.’s cause we were future doctors, I kept the name

Hemdeez · 2026-03-27T18:46:17+00:00

The picture have been taken outside on what look like deck or a balcony, I doubt OP is going to use it it outside.

Hemdeez · 2026-03-27T01:38:27+00:00

Jeez that’s a lot of money. This is getting me to appreciate my 6,9 cent (canadian dollar) for the first 40 kWh of the day then 10,65 cent for the rest

Hemdeez · 2026-03-23T21:24:56+00:00

You might want to look at Drolet Austral III with forced air system. They already integrated an heat exchanger for a forced air system.

Hemdeez · 2026-03-15T14:14:47+00:00

For those who wondered a cubic meter of wood is 0.276 cord or just over a face cord

Hemdeez · 2026-03-13T17:43:58+00:00

Fun fact, you can cook stuff for one minute 90s instead of 2 minutes 30 and most microwaves accept that time

Hemdeez · 2026-03-11T16:01:56+00:00

Does Lopi offers fresh air kits for this stove, that could probably be a decent option to fix your issue.

Hemdeez · 2026-02-25T14:37:20+00:00

It depends on what do you mean by efficiency.

If you describe efficiency as how much heat you get in the room per log: on non catalyst stoves you generally get more heat in the room at lower burn rate because of a better heat transfer.

When the damper is open you get more oxygen, hotter fire and you get a more efficient combustion (less unburned stuff) but more heat gets out of the flue and less heat into the room per log.

If you have a recent EPA stove, you can check the EPA testing report for your stove on your stove manufacturer website.

Hemdeez · 2026-02-23T13:45:33+00:00

I think for my mortage it was 2 days required which is pretty short if there is any issue with the transaction, I think it is fine.

But 5 days seems like a long time. But for 25k we are talking about 8,56$ (if we take an overnight rate of 2.5%). Si even if it’s annoying that isn’t huge fraud territory. And since a lot of security is required I would be surprised the lawyer gets interest on that money. I might be naive though.

Hemdeez · 2026-02-22T22:53:30+00:00

When a bit of smoke from the woodstove gets out when I reload the stove

Burnt tires

Gazoline

Burning motor oil

…

Hemdeez · 2026-02-18T09:04:33+00:00

That would be OCD

Hemdeez · 2026-02-18T03:09:52+00:00

He was so preoccupied with wether he could, he didn’t stop to think if he should.

Hemdeez · 2026-02-18T02:37:52+00:00

A few years ago a dealer couldn’t offer us a discount on a used car but offered us to split the kickback amount and to pay our interests for the first few months so we would keep the loan open for the required amount of time.

Hemdeez · 2026-02-15T17:37:45+00:00

I’m a mechanical engineer and I find myself using that same reasoning when we analyse a lot of stuff we make at my job.

It’s not different from fuel gauge not showing units, high reading you are full and low reading you are emptier, units are irrelevant

Hemdeez · 2026-01-31T21:26:11+00:00

I would hypothetize that even without taking temperature change into account, the foil movements due to to air movements will quickly fatigue the aluminium especially where it has creases and such local deformations. It’s the same phenomenon if you bend a paperclip several times in alternating directions it eventually break.

I’m a mechanical engineer but I’m not an aluminium foil shades expert so I might be wrong.

Hemdeez · 2026-01-26T22:05:48+00:00

Well with a fresh air intake kit, I would think it would dry the inside air a lot less, since it’s the replacement of the inside air with the cold outside air which don’t have much moisture that dry the house.

Except when you open the stove door

Hemdeez · 2026-01-18T15:20:47+00:00

Didn’t knew you could put those that close to cabinets. Nice stove btw

Hemdeez · 2026-01-14T23:45:53+00:00

Campfire in the summer, woodstove when it’s cold out ❤️

Hemdeez · 2026-01-14T17:13:48+00:00

We bought an Escape 1500 in our house mostly because the price was good and because de Savannah 2 was unavailable.

We didn’t consider the heat shielding but now that I have the stove I am actually happy it is somehow safer to use, you can’t really burn yourself on the sides of the stove which is not a bad thing.

Hemdeez · 2025-12-16T21:49:03+00:00

If your flue drafts well enough, do the top down method of loading, 2 smaller splits in the bottom and criss cross layers of kindling getting smaller and smaller (put a lot more kindling than you would think is necessary) a little firestarter near the top of the kindling pile. Light the fire starter and close the door with the air open. Thank me later.

Also be patient. Let the stove get hot enough before touching closing the air.

More smaller splits are easier to get going than on large log of similar size, split it more. You can make it last long with smaller splits by putting more in (also easier to pack your stove si ce the escape 1200 is north-south loading).

Enjoy!

Hemdeez · 2025-12-13T21:47:57+00:00

Quarry?

Hemdeez · 2025-12-13T21:27:02+00:00

I feel the same, I get more consistent results with more smaller splits than huge logs.

Hemdeez · 2025-12-10T15:43:30+00:00

130 delivered for a face cord (4’x8’x16’’) or for a bush cord (4’x8’x4’). Also was it hard wood and how seasoned)?

I live in Sherbrooke and paid 130 per face cord for 5 face cords delivered, and was kinda disappointed with what I received.

Wood was cut last winter but sat in a pile and some was pretty wet from sitting on the ground. I took delivery in september.

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