Wife broke our dinning chair

37chief · Dec 23, 2017

The wife sat down in one of our oak dinning room chairs, and the bottom cracked open. Right then was a good time for me to keep my mouth shut. I managed not to say anything, it was hard. It wasn't her fault. I didn't have a pot of water on top of the wood stove, to keep a little moisture in the room. The heated stove takes all the moisture from the room, drying everything out, including the oak chair. Any of you have a pot boiling on your wood stove? Stan

jon f mn · Dec 23, 2017

We run a humidifier all winter or I can't sleep

David G · Dec 23, 2017

I had one split out about 10 years ago during my birthday party, told the kids I had too much cake.

flying belgian · Dec 23, 2017

We have forced air with them big old floor registers. Take the grate off and set a pan of water down in the registers. Fill as needed. In addition, run a humidifier in the bedroom. Can get enough moisture in the house that it starts to condensate on the windows.

john in la · Dec 23, 2017

To little moisture in the air is one thing we never have in SE La.

kcm.MN · Dec 23, 2017

"Normally" we don't have to worry about lack of moisture in the house. The water table here is usually less than a foot below the grass, and never more than 6' to 7' by the end of Winter. And as this house sat empty (abandoned) for about 20 years before we got it, water ended up in the basement and the walls/floors leak real bad. Sump pump finally stopped pumping in late Fall this year. Before that, it pumped water every single day for over two years!! ...And when I say it pumped water, I ain't talking a few gallons a day -- I'm talking up to 7,000 gallons a day!!

No, we do [i:33d3a2bfd2]not[/i:33d3a2bfd2] have a finished basement. ...And yet at the same time, our basement is finished! :wink: :lol:

ed will · Dec 23, 2017

Hi, your not alone, we have a big kettle on our stove, we have to fill it quite often even though it's on a trivot.Ed Will

fixerupper · Dec 23, 2017

Back in the day we had a pot on both the oil burner and cook stove. Both pans were lined with white calcium after a winter’s use. Today we use some kind of a steamer Marilyn got hold of somewhere. The regular humidifiers we used in the past put out mold spores that gave her allergy problems.

RBoots · Dec 23, 2017

I have a whole house humidifier that is mounted into the ductwork next to the woodstove. It is supplied with water from the hot water line in the basement, and switches on and off when the wood furnace blower turns on and turns off via a pressure switch. Didn't bother me at all without it, wife said she felt like a lizard?

jeffcat · Dec 23, 2017

You want a real steamer type humidifier, NOT the ultrasonic ones. They are the mold problem ones. There is something you are supposed to add a few drops of for that. I have two humidifiers . The smaller one is a gallon in 24hr and the bigger one is two gallons per 24. Cats get all sparkey when you pet them if it is too dry.

Leroy · Dec 23, 2017

When we were first married my wife thought we needed to do that. I was aking all the time and got her talked out of doing that and my akes went away. You hear of people going to Arisona for the dry climate for their health. Getting rid of that water was for me like going to that dry climate. No more water left out for that for 30 years. And no problem with furniture getting too dry.

Olliejunkie · Dec 23, 2017

I have forced air and it dries out my sinuses bad. Bought a humidifier but do not like it much. Maybe I will try a pan in the duct. Dad's old wood furnace has a spot on the side for water. Also used it to dry nuts.

Bruce from Can. · Dec 24, 2017

I read your threads title, and warned my wife that something like this could easy happen too her too, as she had been really packing on the pounds the last few years, almost weighing in at 112lb. lol. I have a cast iron tea kettle on the wood stove.

4520BW · Dec 24, 2017

When I was kid at home we always had a pot on the stove. I can remember it was about half full of lime thanks to our nice hard water.

Paul from MI · Dec 24, 2017

Drum type humidifier on forced air/wood furnace. Connected to softened water line. I just have to clean it about once a year, no problems. Glue that chair with Titebond III and clamp it good for 24 hours. Best wood glue I've ever used.

RobCons · Dec 24, 2017

We have a heat pump. Humidity is not a problem, 51% in the house now. 89% outside. Bruce I kid my wife too. She stayed around 95 for years but now weighs 117. I like it. More to snuggle with. Only been married 23 years.

ditchwitch · Dec 24, 2017

That is good glue i use it alot on wood projets.

Stephen Newell · Dec 24, 2017

Not having a pot of water on your stove might dry your skin out but it has no affect on the chair one way or the other. The chair has received some damage at some time or another and just happened to break at that time. The seat may have been too thin to begin with and someone had been using the chair as a stool standing on it.

Roger in Wisconsin · Dec 24, 2017

Yes, we keep one on. I've tried different types, pans, even had an aluminum dragon where the steam came out of its nose. The dragon didn't work very well. Bought a cast iron pan about the size of a big bread pan with a lid that is mostly open. That works well. Got it from Tractor Supply.

showcrop · Dec 24, 2017

We run a humidifier all through the heating season. It is a blower type with a wick. I need it for my sinuses. To keep mold from growing I add the Quat sanitizer. It is expensive but I get it from work for nothing.

Traditional Farmer · Dec 24, 2017

We keep a big pot of water on the wood stove all Winter makes a big difference,plus I have a couple of large wood racks in the basement not too far from the stove to let the wood throughly dry before burning and that puts some more moisture into the air.

Loantaka · Dec 24, 2017

We keep a cast iron pot of water on both woodstoves in the house in NY.

pete black · Dec 24, 2017

I have my grandmother's old cast iron tea kettle she kept on the old coal stove. Mostly used as a water heater as I do not remember her having indoor plumbing or a water heater. It is nearly one-half full of deposits. Fifty years ago I married my wife who at age 18 weighed 112 pounds, today she weighs 120 pounds. Merry Christmas on that side of the country.

Russ from MN · Dec 24, 2017

I have heard that women who carry a little extra weight live longer than men who mention it!

muleman51 · Dec 24, 2017

That reminds me , I need to fix my humidifier. when I used to burn wood in the basement , I had 2 SS Surge milker buckets on the stove all winter. You could get a lot of moisture in the house with them.

rrlund · Dec 24, 2017

You know why married women tend to be heavier than single women don't you?

A single woman comes home,looks at what's in the refrigerator and goes to bed.

A married woman comes home,looks at what's in the bed and goes to the refrigerator.

Old Bob · Dec 24, 2017

Now that is a funny one. Lol.

Tony Vidlak · Dec 24, 2017

We've had this same old kettle sitting on the stove for 30 years.
It get awful dry if you don't keep it full of water.

showcrop · Dec 24, 2017

(quoted from post at 04:26:41 12/24/17) I read your threads title, and warned my wife that something like this could easy happen too her too, as she had been really packing on the pounds the last few years, almost weighing in at 112lb. lol. I have a cast iron tea kettle on the wood stove.

As I was reading your post and my right eye was looking ahead and saw cast iron, I though that you were going to say that you had a cast iron skillet stuck on the side of your head.

showcrop · Dec 24, 2017

(quoted from post at 21:43:35 12/23/17) When we were first married my wife thought we needed to do that. I was aking all the time and got her talked out of doing that and my akes went away. You hear of people going to Arisona for the dry climate for their health. Getting rid of that water was for me like going to that dry climate. No more water left out for that for 30 years. And no problem with furniture getting too dry.

Leroy, consider yourself very fortunate.

rdandersom · Dec 24, 2017

I have the smallest saucepan from the set on the woodstove. If I keep it on the hottest part of the stove it will empty twice a day.

GordoSD · Dec 24, 2017

This is how I humidify my place. Poaching, eggs and salmon and Halibut. Hard boiled eggs. Pot of soup every 4 days. Beans take 6 hours. Chili, takes 4-5 hrs simmering. Pasta, 30 minutes but eat it 4 times a week. Beef stew 5-6 hrs Simmering. Steaming veggies. Almost every day. Steaming potatoes, 3 times per week.
I can't see humidity being a problemif you cook three meals a day .

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