It's a beautiful wet soggy summer day here in Northern Washington. I'm ready for some sunshine again. I think our tiny house is too. We did our best to cover things up and keep everything nice and dry, this weather wasn't supposed to come until next month. But leave it to mother nature to always throw in a few surprises at you just to see how well you do.
But despite the fact the weather is totally not in our favor. We did get a little gleam of sunshine into our day via a special delivery.
Our Wood cook stove arrived!!!!!! After 3 days in a row of failed delivery it has arrived safe and somewhat sound. There was minor damage on the face of the stove but fortunately they are all replaceable parts and won't be at our cost.
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| Our Wood Cook Stove stove right of the truck...and almost off the trailer YIKES! |
Having a wood cook stove is not a common thing for a tiny house. At least I haven't heard of anyone installing one yet. Actually here in America a wood cook stove is uncommon in general. What can I say we leave in a world where people love their gas and electricity, which is great, unless you don't have any. Fionnbharre and I prefer the idea of living in a self sustainable way whenever possible. We are designing our house in such a way that we can be on the grid and off whenever needed or wanted. For us the wood cook stove is perfect. We can comfortably heat our home and cook and bake all at the same time with the same piece of equipment. We've heated our home with wood whenever possible. Living in the Pacific Northwest where the rain falls and cool air comes for a good 6-9 months out of the year the wood stove gets used a lot! For the summer months, where stove top cooking is rare (at least in our family) we will get a portable propane stove for when its just to darn hot to turn our house into a sauna.
We Ordered our cook stove from Obadiahs Woodstoves. Obadiah's is a small family run business located in Northwest Montana. They are an excellent company with a WIDE variety of stoves, fireplace and wood heat supplies. They have been great to work with, very knowledgeable and always willing to help. I should add, the stove arriving slightly damaged was not on behalf of Obadiah's this happened somewhere in transit.
The stove itself "Rosa"was imported from Italy, made by a company called La Nordica.
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| This is what Rosa will look like. Full assembled with all her parts. |
The stove has barely come of out of the package.... actually there was barely a package to come with it. I think the people over at La Nordica could use a few lessons on packing fragile pieces of equipment... hence reason why there was some damage. But besides that the stove is a beauty. She's sitting in our unfinished humble home waiting soon find her permanent placement.
She'll hanging out there for a while. We don't really have anywhere else to put her except inside the trailer. She weighs about 400 lbs! So moving her around a lot is not a good idea and lifting her up only one time is preffered. Hopefully she won't be to much in the way during the rest of the building process. If anything she's going to help us learn to dance......dance around HER that is!
Correction in video: Obdahia's Woodstove Co. is in Montana.
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| Getting ready to load Rosa onto the trailer. A near impossible task without a forklift |
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| Here's she is out of the packaging and in the tiny house, she is missing her bottom drawers. We'll get that taken care of. |
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