Day 221 - 222

Mom and Dad came over for the weekend. Jonathan and I continued to put insulation up in the ceiling in the 2nd floor landing room. We were hoping to get some of the wiring done in that room this weekend. But the plans were changed. Jonathan and Dad went down into the basement to see about the giant corn burning stove. We had been hoping to sell this and get something else for heat in the basement. But we haven't had luck finding someone who wanted to buy it. So Mom and Dad thought if we could get the thing working, maybe we should just use it. So they worked on the stove it bit, getting a chimney pipe out the window and making sure everything was working. We fired it up, and it started heating the basement as well as the first floor. The bad news it that it seems to be using more corn/pellets then we want to. To keep it burning without smoking we have to keep it warmer in there then we want too. But we are planning on playing with the settings to see if we can get it to work more like we want to.

Jonathan also got the blower hooked up and working on our wood stove. This seems to help keep the second floor a bit warmer. While he was working on the wood stove, Mom, Dad and I went up to third floor. We got plastic on all of the windows up there. We also put some insulation in the cracks and gaps between second and third floor. Hopefully this will keep more of the heat on second floor.