That daggoned south wind is smoking me out – it has, in fact, created an atmosphere akin to a smokehouse for the last three weekends running. If it’s difficult to see across the room, you know you’ve got a problem.
See, when we placed the chimney for the woodstove on the south side of the house, the pitch of the roof was such that there was no way to brace a taller chimney, so we never got even close to “3 feet higher than the highest point of the roof.”
I’ve read that there are turbine-type chimney caps that can keep the chimney’s draw when it’s windy, so if anyone has used such a novelty, can you please let me know if you had any luck with it? I am scared to death of heights, but I will happily (sort of) climb my butt up the ladder if I can keep from setting off the smoke alarm.
I’m really kind of tired of my hair smelling like sausage every Saturday. *sigh*
