Orangeburg...... $1.9 million 267 Sickletown Road, Rockland 9-year-old stucco colonial; entry w/sweeping staircase, 3 fireplaces, temperature-controlled wine room, pool, 1.05-acre lot; taxes $29,043; listed at $1.995 million.
Features: Eight fireplaces; temperature-controlled wine room; 75-foot black granite lap pool and 40-foot round pool.
The 1,966 square foot house features a living room with a fire place, media room, commercial kitchen, library with a solarium and fireplace, and a temperature-controlled wine cellar.
Of note are advances in energy conservation: in addition to LED lighting, each room is equipped with a Control4 wireless system that shuts off all the lights and the fireplace and reduces the temperature after guests exit.
This will allow the inside of the fireplace to come to room temperature.
We awakened to a bright dawn, a wind-ruffled lake and below-freezing temperatures, but the fireplace and the sun streaming in through picture windows and glass doors soon removed the chill.
They have more than twice the energy of wood and can easily overwhelm the epoxy and silicone's temperature limits once they ignite, causing fireplace components (specifically the damper) to fail.
Two temperature-controlled wine-storage walls flank the fireplace in the wine-tasting room.
The flue gas temperatures measured onsite were 134° to 278 °C higher than the mean temperature indicated in the CE marking of the tested fireplaces.
In the days following the 201o blizzard, as we shivered in 48-degree temperatures in the living room despite the fire in the fireplace, I regretted not following the path taken by my friend Tom Zeller, who'd blogged four months earlier on the energy savings from his fireplace insert.
