As noted earlier, I had to do some monkeying around with the stovepipe and chimney when we put in our new wood stove, the Blaze King Princess.
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When our house was built 31 years ago, the foundation wall was sprayed with foam on the outside to insulate it. This material was neither thick nor particularly durable. We’d offset these weaknesses by insulating the inside of the crawl space some time back, but there was still a section where sunlight was breaking down some of the old exterior foam, bringing it down to a thickness of zero in places. Ugly and cold, I’d think each time I walked by it. And so it made it onto the Home List.
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