Got a pretty basic question about starting stove in morning

[klxrelic]

We could easily get 36 hour burn times out of both

Wow.... Thats amazing!!.. The beauties of burning hardwood I guess.....
I am lucky to get 12 hours burning spruce.

 

[nellraq]

Wow.... Thats amazing!!.. The beauties of burning hardwood I guess.....
I am lucky to get 12 hours burning spruce.

It's not the beauty of burning hardwoods....but rather the beauties of burning a Blaze King!! I burn mainly fir and larch in my BK Chinook and easily get 24 hour burns in the shoulder seasons, and 12 - 15 + hour burns through the winter

 

[Ashful]

It's not the beauty of burning hardwoods....but rather the beauties of burning a Blaze King!!

Or the combination thereof, I suspect. Never got these burn times from my Jotuls, burning larger wood of the same species.

 

[mass_burner]

It's not the beauty of burning hardwoods....but rather the beauties of burning a Blaze King!! I burn mainly fir and larch in my BK Chinook and easily get 24 hour burns in the shoulder seasons, and 12 - 15 + hour burns through the winter

Such wonders I can not imagine.

 

[RFarm]

I too live in a well insulated cottage in a not so cold climate and wood is my primary and only source of heat. I find that night time lows and interior temp really drive my decision on how to burn, IF the house drops to 68F or below - the stove comes on, Period. Now what kind of burn I do will depend on what is happening outside. Forecasted night time lows around freezing and I do a small fire burn starting about 6pm. This type of fire consists of 4-5 small pieces of pine and 2-4 small oak splits. I burn it fast and hot and usually get the house interior temp up to 76F. I let the stove decel over night and usually wake up to a 70-72F house. I can, and sometimes do, relight off the coals another small fire if it is still close to freezing temps outside in the morning and I have the time to enjoy it, Now if temps drop below 20F overnight - I will load and light my stove as mentioned above then load it again around 10pm with 2-4 big hunks/ splits of hardwood to ride out the night and carry me through the morning. Wake up temps will be 72-74F most of the time in this scenario. Now if the daytime temps are staying below 40F - I will toss in a few more splits or a big hunk of love to maintain home interior temps and save coals for the relight when i get home from work, but if the daytime temps are to push upper 40's or higher I will let the stove decel and relight in the evening if the house gets below 68F. In my climate I do more shoulder burning than 24/7 burns, but I love having the stove on and will usually err towards lighting it then letting it sit idle, even if it is just a few splits of pine to take the chill off. I actually love when we get a cold snap (lows in the teens or below and highs in the 30's) and I can pound it 24/7 for a week or two. When going 24/7, I fully load the stove at 7am then again at 7pm and just let her cruise. Interior temps regularly will be near 80F with wake up temps 75F or higher. A little on the hot side but you get used to it.

As far as our upstairs goes - i have the opposite problem of you, my upstairs gets really toasty when the stove is lit - I have open vaulted ceilings and use ceiling fans to more evenly distribute the heat, but our best course of action is to keep the bedroom doors closed so the rooms stay cooler for a better nights rest.

Good times with the wood stove - I love it!