I don't know how you guys can burn so little and be in colder places than me!
My house was built in 1951 with no insulation in the walls or attic.
In the early 70's the original owners added 500 sq ft of second floor and 300 sq ft of first floor. While they were at it they blew some cheesy powder in the walls which has settled about 3/4 way down the walls. And some r15 fiberglass in the attic.
My house is 2700 sq ft of heated living space (which includes 700 sq ft of heated finished basement) also I have 800 sq ft of uninsulated/unheated basement and the 500 sq ft of uninsulated garage that the WG is in.
I have about 800 sq ft of my 1st floor that has a poorly insulated attic above it and poorly insulated walls. I did reinsulate the 500 sq ft of second floor attic with R38 last year.
The second floor and the extension on the first floor have fin tube baseboard.
The rest of the first floor has sun-rads that are recessed in the wall. They are just a short piece 3'+/- of wide fin tube baseboard. There is 6 of them total. Real stupid design because they cut out all the framing and recess them, the only thing separating the heat from the outside is a piece of 3/4" sheathing and the vinyl siding.
I keep the house at 70* from 5:30 am- 11pm and then the Tstat is set to 66
I burned about 7 cord
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of maple, locust and cherry that was barely 10 months old from
Nov 1st thru end of March, ( about the same the first year with even less dry wood) I'm on my 4th cord of pallet wood for DHW which I started burning in end of march. Actually it was the week before Easter that I got my first cord of pallets. It's 90% southern yellow pine and 10% oak. They are small chunks and blocks of pallets they cut up and load in 4x4x4 cribs
Man o man do I need to really insulate this place.
last year I replaced the front windows and siding. I took off the sheathing and found the powder insulation. I reinsulated with r15 roxul. I also redid my roofing and the 2nd fl roof plywood was shot so I pulled it and was able to reinsulate the attic.
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