how are you running your stove?

[Deezl Smoke]

That is funny - I have a craft room also, I just labeled it as a bedroom (it is the bed room next to the "den"). I elected to use the smaller bedroom as mine (doesn't show in my crude drawing - actually the bathroom looks huge compared to what it is in reality), and use the slightly larger room as a craftroom and library. And, the living area is 950 sq/ft - very close to yours.

My house was built in 1960 and I tore out all the exterior wall in the summer of 2014 and added insulation - there was like an inch of rock wool, and no vapor/wind barrier, behind the walls so I can feel your pain for insulation. Being 2x4 construction, I could only put in R13 insulation, but it is still much better than it was. Also put in new windows - most triple pane, but also added a bay window in the living room (that was a large picture window) and it is double pane. My main problem now is that there are acoustical tiles instead of sheet rock for the ceiling and they let in a lot of cold air from the attic. I will be replacing ceilings one room at a time.

The basement is unfinished, but my laundry is down there. There is also a 1-car garage is under both bedrooms, which lets in a lot of cold air despite R19 insulation that I installed winter of 2013/2014 (one of my first projects when I moved here - first project was replacing the basement door to the garage as it was so warped there were literally 1" gaps in some spots). I have installed rigid foam along almost all of the inner portion of the foundation to help keep the warm air in, but the bare concrete floor still brings up the cold.

During the winter, unlike you, I have very little humidity. right now I'm at 33 %, but during cold weather, it is down to 20% or less. I have a large pan of water sitting on the P43 (as shown in the picture in my previous post) that I fill every day or two, which helps but truthfully I like it desert dry as opposed to what most people prefer humidity wise. I would NOT like the humidity that you deal with though.

I thought my house was small (living area wise anyway), what are the outside dimensions of your house?

Mine's about 26' wide by close to 35 long. I think it was 916' by the math. Has a car port on one side and a small front porch on the westward facing side. To put the new thimble in the south wall of this house, I had to go thru 4 layers of wood. Studs are rough cut actual 2x3". That's a real 2x3, not 1.5x2.5. But they are on random (so it appears to me anyway) spacings. I have to use a stud finder on the south part of the house to find any of them. North side is newer and on 16" centers.

I mentioned once before that my "theme" if you will, is industrial/mechanical. I use tool boxes for all my storage and stuff, and I found scaffolds at harbor freight on sale to use for my craft table. Under the scaffolds are more tool boxes from home depot. I'm making a leather bbq sauce holster for my bil is why there is a bottle of it on the table.

But we're getting a bit off topic now. Maybe we should start a thread in the other topics page?

 

[TimfromMA]

Running my stove as our primary heat source, just like before the oil price crash.

 

[alternativeheat]

Back up and running tonight, in a minimal Stove Temp Mode burn and getting a bit warm around here. We will burn a few pellets through the cold snap coming in at least. Why ? because I can, it feels nice and it looks nice before the Christmas tree comes down.

 

[They Call Me Pete]

All I know is Oil is Cheap, Pellet's are Expensive, my house has never been equally heated and no work carrying bags in and loading the stove which seems always in the am before work, and my back is enjoying it.
You people saying your whole house is 72 your full of chit and you don't have a thermostat in those far rooms to show exactly how cold it is, a pellet stove is a space heater like a kerosene heater, electric heater and so forth, what heat get's to other rooms is alot cooler

Thermometer in kitchen(furthest room) reads 70. Our upstairs is hotter but never measured it but will tell you we all sleep with just sheets on the bed,no comforters. If I closed the doors to the 3 season porch house would be hotter(and very small) but thats the ceiling fan we used to move the heat. I really like having a house thats 1000 sq ft. We have electric heat so stove runs all the time except on the warm days (50+) which I think are a thing of the past now

 

[tiger]

I dont care what oil prices are. It's a non renewable source.

Not quite true; but you'll have to wait a long time for the renewal...