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That's exactly what mine does now. It's triple insulated, but it still will get a back draft when I try to start a fire on a cold morning if I didn't have a fire in it when we went to bed and it can be a booger.

What I do now is if I know it's going to be cold in the morning and I I'm not going to sleep with a fire in the fire box, I will open the dampers all the way and put a large candle in the wood stove, light it and close the door. The candle puts off enough heat to keep the chimney drafting all night.

Now whenever Mrs. Irish goes to garage sales she picks up old candles for cheap just for that purpose.

I want the flue to be on the outside, like the one we currently have, because on this one the mantle will be lower and I'm going to put the biggest damn flat screen I can afford up there. The way the cabin currently is there is no provision for a TV and that was a mistake by me, thinking... "we weren't going to have any electronics in our weekend get away cabin."

That lasted about 3 weekends...

Thanks for the retirement well wishes... Without our company I don't think it would have been possible. It's the best place I have ever worked and I honestly hate to leave. Great people and a great environment. I'm really going to miss it and the folks I get to work with. Mrs. Irish has been retired since the end of February 2023 so she has been asking me "When are you retiring?" for almost a year now...

Man this is great. I’ve always been a DIY guy myself, started building houses when I was 16. My family has always been carpenters/home builders. Being an attorney, it’s hard for me to get much done on my own without all of my friends constantly saying “why don’t you just hire someone to do that?!” They don’t understand that undertaking projects like this is my therapy and I guess not everyone appreciates the satisfaction received from doing something with your own two hands.

I have a friend building a new house right now, $185.00 per sq’ it’s being built by one of our fishing buddies who is a home builder.

My barndominium is 2,688 sq’ and to be honest I didn’t really want to stroke a check for $497,280.

You ever crack an outside door or window when lighting?

Is that supposed to help?

Might make it draw better. Your cabin is a smaller area and probably built very tight, a little air flow may do the trick . Worth a try.

A small fan in front when lighting might help too.

A little fine tuning of the damper in the pipe may give some relief.

Irish I noticed on your drawings another chimney on your addition. Remember height when you build. The old rule of thumb has always been 3’ above the highest roof peak. Or in like ones you see on an A frame type build is once you get 20’ separation you are good. Wood heaters are the way to go. Unless you build a working fireplace it needs to be a Russian style where you get some actual benefit from it.

That is really cool. Congratulations on the retirement. It is so impressive to me when people can design and build their own house. I would love to be able to do that one day.

Question about the design: was there a reason you went with a small hallway to the addition, plus more deck space, instead of just extending the cabin's full length and getting more indoor square footage? I really like your design and wondered if there is a reason beyond preference. As designed it looks like you will have a deck area where you get view but can escape from the wind.