Specialty Gardening: Odd Containers..., 1 by ladyrowan

ladyrowan wrote:
Well, when we moved into our house, it boasted an almost 30-year-old fireplace insert... Being city folks, we had never actually depended on a fireplace to create heat for a house. In S. CA a fireplace is for pretty, not for warmth.

Last summer, the old insert took a nice trip to the dump, and a propane insert was installed instead, complete with a thermostat. No more hauling in wood during torrential rainfall, no more spiders, no more splinters, no more ash pot to fill with last week's ashes... Now it has a much better use...