Heating has been a HUGE issue this winter.  We had heard this from everyone else but had yet to experience it ourselves until we had to pay 600 Euro for 40 days of heat with our gasolio.  We realized over the warmer periods when we used our radiators that run off gasolio the furnace didn't have to work so hard so we were filled with a false sense of well being that heating wasn't costing us too much.

Boy did we have a rude awakening.

After a smart suggestion from Alessandra, we decided to research whether or not our apartment had a former "camino" (chimney), as many do just for the old kitchen areas.  Come to find out, ours did and after having a "spazzio camino" (chimney sweeper) come clean the chimney that hadn't been used for 50 some years, we decided to invest in a "stufa" stove.

We did a lot of research and agonized over what would work best.  The easiest solution would be a wood stove, they don't cost too much but the expense for wood here isn't cheap.  The newest craze is pellet stoves which save almost 100 Euro a month over using wood but cost WAY more than the wood stoves but are more environmental friendly.

What we decided was that we do want to be here for a while and we can see that the normal heating, whether it is gas, gasolio or electric, isn't cost effective.  So we decided on a nice pellet stove.

In order to install this stove we needed to drill a hole in our 12 inch plus walls to the chimney so that the pipe from the stove could poke through.  Actually the beauty of pellet stoves is that you can stick a pipe out almost anywhere because the stove doesn't really smoke.

Anyway.

Our landlady arranged for a muratore to come and drill through the wall to make the hole.  We decided to put the stove on the second floor, where the bedrooms, office and bathroom are as this is the most important area for us to be warm in.



He started out by tapping into the wall but soon he was really drilling. 

Here is our new buca (hole)!

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