Bob Hutton

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Your problem is potentially two fold, primary is lack of insulation combined with lack sufficient air flow to keep the interior wall surface from frosting in extreme cold. this is the first.

When the interior warms up enough this frost turns to damp, cycle this enough times and it turns to mold.

The second probable cause is inadequate vapour barrier.  Fiberglass insulation rapidly loses it insulation value if interior vapour can penitrate it.

If poorly installed and or no vapour barrier is present, installing exterior insulation, usually foam, will rot your house from the inside out as it is a vapour barrier itself  and is on the wrong side of the heating surface in this case, will trap moisture within the wall cavity.

Myself, I would take one of your smaller rooms that has an outside wall and rip off the interior surface of it, drywall? Then you will know what you are dealing with.

4 days ago
Just started seasoning my new pans today. Last Time I moved between provinces the ones I had got misplaced somehow. Last week they had a 40% sale on some decent quality ones that I couldn't resist. Have my eye on a cast pizza skillet that I can put inside the woodstove but its pretty expensive right now. My thoughts were to make the dough and spread on the skillet then put on top of the woodstove to preheat while I prepared the toppings, then stuff inside the woodstove till cooked. I think it will be a good experiment.  
4 days ago
Chunky vegetable beef soup

Carrot
Onion
Carrot
Beef and drippings
salt
pepper
olive oil
Add hot water to about 1" shy of ingredient's. Cook to desired tenderness. I cook a little firm as this will last me 4 days. I reheat on woodstove so it always cooks a little more.  I make flat bread on the propane stove top to go with it.
Once it started perking I turned the heat down to a slow perk for almost 10 minutes. I guess its trial and error till you have the brew you like.

I used this little one all the time when I was still bike camping. My son and I made a tent trailer I pulled with my bike. I made the little tent heater stove from scratch with a salvaged aladdin lamp burner. I worked remarkably well and made great coffee.
4 days ago