Power Outage Questions

[kueluck]

My question would be what is "untreated" wood? If you're using wood from felled trees there shouldn't be a problem. Like Bill said, as long as your chimney is clean all is good.

the power here in the mountains used to go out during a heavy rainstorm let alone when it snowed lol, they had a faulty transformer that finally blew and took out the poles it was attached to, after replacing it the power here rarely goes out for more then a few min, but in case of longer power outages I usually light my fireplace and seal off all the other doors, I was wondering would having the fireplace lit using untreated wood be detrimental to frogs ? Cedar's tank is sitting on a wheeled cart so can move him around if necessary for cleaning etc and would be able to adjust how far away from the fireplace to keep his temps in the right range.

[cjbage]

There was someone running around here that was selling wood that had insecticide sprayed all over it and another that was selling wood that had been sprayed with a fungicide to kill the mold on the bark etc. some people in the hills are a bit strange.. so finally i called the park ranger service and they put me in touch with one of the people they use to clear out their deadfall lol so i get..untreated wood

[kueluck]

Ah, gotcha.

[dumpyfrog101]

hahaha are you guys kidding come to canada where we have igloos! JK but seriously it minus 44 and when it minus 4 we all run around in are tee shirts you amricans are such wimps.

[Louis Charles Bruckner]

Thanks to my job I have a natural gas 15Kw generator and a 5kw UPS.
After hurricane fran hit I never wanted to be with out power.

[cjbage]

Thanks to my job I have a natural gas 15Kw generator and a 5kw UPS.
After hurricane fran hit I never wanted to be with out power.

There is a propane store that installs tanks etc, was thinking of getting one of the propane standby generators put in for running the appliances/water heater and heat pump, but...had to replace the heat pump and have the well redone to bring it up to code because the people that had this place before went the cheap route and the "well company" made a mess of the electrical, dug the well real shallow so it kept running dry and then the morons put in the wrong size pump so it burned out, all last year so need to wait a bit.

[kueluck]

It's not us that we're concerned about, it's keeping our cold blooded critters happy and healthy. Also I'm offended by that comment about Americans being wimps!!

hahaha are you guys kidding come to canada where we have igloos! JK but seriously it minus 44 and when it minus 4 we all run around in are tee shirts you amricans are such wimps.