{"id":863,"date":"2008-09-11T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2008-09-11T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:55:29","slug":"dormers-etc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Dormers, etc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/adormers-9-11.JPG' title='adormers-9-11.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/adormers-9-11.JPG' alt='adormers-9-11.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nBoth dormers are now roofed.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/adormers-9-11-2.JPG' title='adormers-9-11-2.JPG'><img src='http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/adormers-9-11-2.JPG' alt='adormers-9-11-2.JPG' \/><\/a><br \/>\nAlso today, the chimney was framed in. I had to accept a number of economies in building this house. Much as I would have loved to have a classic brick chimney, I couldn&#8217;t afford it. Instead I&#8217;ll have a framed chimney, which will be covered with the same board-and-batten siding as the rest of the house. The practical penalty is not great, because I&#8217;ll have a propane fireplace rather than a wood fireplace. The propane fireplace needs only a horizontal vent; it doesn&#8217;t need a chimney at all. However, including the frame chimney maintains the profile of the house and gives me the option of turning it into a functioning chimney someday with a stainless steel insert. It&#8217;s good to have that option, but I expect to use that option only if the cost of gas gets so high that I&#8217;m forced to consider burning trees. If I was young enough to deal with the labor of burning trees, the equation would look different. But I&#8217;m too old to manage chainsaws, and the idea of flipping a switch to light the fireplace is extremely appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both dormers are now roofed. Also today, the chimney was framed in. I had to accept a number of economies in building this house. Much as I would have loved to have a classic brick chimney, I couldn&#8217;t afford it. Instead I&#8217;ll have a framed chimney, which will be covered with the same board-and-batten siding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=863\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dormers, etc.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}