We finally hovered around freezing here last night (Long Island),and I'm pretty sure it was frigid in the whole Northeast. I loaded up the 2.3 cu.ft. firebox with as much oak and cherry as she could fit on top of a sweet bed of coals at about 11 last night. I woke up this morning for work at 6:30, and the downstairs was about 74 °F in the LR and 71-72 in the den(furthest from the stove). The blower was still on, there was a huge bed of coals,and life was good Levittown. :cheese: Last year with my old, malfunctioning VC, that baby wouldve been dead as a doornail, and the oil-fired beast wouldve been sucking up cash like a vacuum! I'm curious to see how she'll fare against temps in the single digits and teens, but from what I've seen so far, the prognosis is good.
