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My house doesn't have any kind of fireplace or woodstove. Is there a possible way to add a woodstove to my house? I have read from a few threads that they can be used for cooking, and for heating in the winter. But I heard that they need a chimney or something which I don't have. Can something like that be added or will something else have to be done? Nothing beats natural heat, and there's plenty of wood around me that can be used.
Second part is that down the line I plan to build an outside brick BBQ grill, similar to what my grandparents had when I was little. Basically one built of bricks on a small concrete slab, and using cinder blocks for the inside. Has anyone ever had a pit like this?
A grill that has plenty room to cook most things without too much trouble, and where I can enjoy the outdoors more.
You can add a woodstove chimney fairly easily. You basically have two options: drill a hole through your roof & ceiling and run the pipe; or put your stove near an outside wall and vent the chimney out the wall and then up to the roof. It's usually better to put your stove in the middle of the house and run your chimney straight up because it heats more evenly and the chimney draft is better so it's less smoky and cleaner. There's lots of information at woodheat home.
As for the barbeque... we don't have one yet, but are planning to build one as an addition to our smokehouse. My grandparents had one, too, and the design doesn't look too difficult. There are some plans at Build Your Own Brick BBQ Pit.
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Two-part question.
My house doesn't have any kind of fireplace or woodstove. Is there a possible way to add a woodstove to my house? I have read from a few threads that they can be used for cooking, and for heating in the winter. But I heard that they need a chimney or something which I don't have. Can something like that be added or will something else have to be done? Nothing beats natural heat, and there's plenty of wood around me that can be used.
Second part is that down the line I plan to build an outside brick BBQ grill, similar to what my grandparents had when I was little. Basically one built of bricks on a small concrete slab, and using cinder blocks for the inside. Has anyone ever had a pit like this?
A grill that has plenty room to cook most things without too much trouble, and where I can enjoy the outdoors more.
The coolest grill I have ever seen was, as you described, on a slab approximately 10' by 8' and was divided into three stations: One large wood burning station and two cooking stations; one low to the coals and one high to the coals. The wood burning station had a large grate that allowed wood to be burned on top and the coals to fall through to the foundation. One of the walls to the burning station was open, allowing the user to shovel coals from the burning station to the two cooking stations. In this manner, once the burning station is primed and is continuously stoked you always have hot coals to cook over and can regulate your cooking temperature by cooking on the high or low grill. It's a bit of a process to get the grill ready and preparation takes a couple of hours, but if you want to BBQ for a large group nothing beats the setup.
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