how many leave there stoves on when not home

[YooperD2]

My stove is on call 24/7 @ 72* except for cleaning. I have the LP forced air furnace set for 60* in case it's needed. No worries

 

[save$]

If the stove is installed properly according to the manufacturer's specs. and is properly maintained, then it is probably more a risk to leave me unattended than it is the stove!
My stove runs 24/7 except for cleaning and except for when I forget to fill the hopper.

 

[little_hawk_59]

people shut them off for something other than cleaning and repair during the winter i wouldn't have thought of that, but we burned wood growing up and never thought leaving the wood burner was anything other than normal.

 

[katwillny]

Ours stays on about 23 hours of the day. I turn it off one hour a day usually when I get home from work just to give it a break.

 

[tinkabranc]

My XXV runs 24/7.

We only run the Advance when we are home. However, this is not because we are worried about the stove,
but because of the angle where it sits in the room it sets off the motion/heat sensors on my house alarm.

 

[perchin]

It only shuts off once a week for cleaning.

 

[kinsmanstoves]

Light the one in the frontroom in or around October and it runs till May or so. No one in my house will ever say it is cold in here between those months.

Burn em if you got em.

Eric

 

[Wi Thundercat]

24/7 here ! Never run the gas furnace but its set for 60 just incase its needed.

 

[twojrts]

I run mine 24/7, except to clean it. I work weird hours, sometimes 10 - 12 hr days. No problem. It's sooo nice to come home to a warm house.
Furnace is "on" but temp set at 65 just in case. Have a JRT here and can't come home to a frozen puppy!!

 

[warmncozy]

I couldn't take the poll because I don't fit any of the categories.

We don't run the stove when we're at work because I see no reason to keep the house at 68-70 when nobody's home. (I don't have a thermostat on my stove)

I leave the oil furnace thermostats at 55 so my pipes don't freeze, but the heat rarely goes on except during the coldest part of the winter.

However....the pellet stove is on all weekend even if we leave the house.

 

[Doocrew]

I let the pellet stove run 24/7 but will not leave the dryer or dishwasher running when I am not home.

 

[jtakeman]

From mid October to late May. My stove is set to turn on when the stat calls for heat. No different than if I had a furnace! In the bitter cold the stove is set to High/lo stat and runs 24/7.

 

[Countryboymo]

I do not run mine 24/7 through the year but when it gets cold enough it is turned on and stays on unless it needs cleaning or the temp warms up above freezing for very long. I know some people who have absolutely no problem sleeping with one on because they have smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors but won't leave the house for even an hour without turning off the stove. I would not and do not think twice about leaving ours on. I did take a precautionary time after I installed it to make sure everything was okay before I slept with it on or left it for an extended period of time which was a week or so.

 

[rona]

I have burned pellets since 2004 and the stoves are expected to run 24-7 for up to three weeks before I will shut down for a 1/2 hour cleaning. I add corn or pellets and dump the ash drawer on the fly.
have you ever heard of a house exploding because of nat gas or propane? I think we all have. Have you ever heard of a house exploding from burning corn or pellets?

 

[Entburner]

24/7 here too.hit the off button once a week to clear the pot and shut her down every saturday to clean.
purrrrz like a kitten.

Only once per week? Wow.

 

[jtakeman]

24/7 here too.hit the off button once a week to clear the pot and shut her down every saturday to clean.
purrrrz like a kitten.

Only once per week? Wow.

Same here. Fill stove every other day and clean it on sundays. I can go far far longer. But clean and tidy makes me feel better.

see imacmans post. He hasn't clean his since the start of the season. These multifuelers are like energizer bunnies!

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/62598/

 

[Pellet-King]

Unfortunately I have to clean my stove once a week, there's alot of ash builtup now but it's too cold now to shutdown, reason I keep my stove going is it takes a few days to get the house good and warm, I have never worreid about it on when not home, worry more about it going out burning on low than worrying about it going to a 5 and out of control, but as my stove get's older, 12 year's now, sensor's/switches could go bad and auto shutdown may not work if needed, but thats what's home insurance for.

 

[teetah222]

I didn't last year for the first few weeks. Worried that I may not have done something right in the install. After that break in period I went to all the time. Defeats the purpose of putting in a stove if I shut it down and turn up my electric heat when I'm gone or sleeping (=2/3 of the day). I even left it running a couple of weeks ago when I left town to go shopping for the day (no Costco in my town ). I figure as long as I'm properly maintaining and cleaning it there should never be a problem. (I also grew up in a house with a wood stove and later a fireplace with an insert in it that runs 24/7 as long as someone keeps shoving hunks of wood in it, so am comfortable with the idea of fire in the house.)

 

[teetah222]

oops, deleting duplicate post...

 

[lordgrinz]

Unfortunately I have to clean my stove once a week, there's alot of ash builtup now but it's too cold now to shutdown, reason I keep my stove going is it takes a few days to get the house good and warm, I have never worreid about it on when not home, worry more about it going out burning on low than worrying about it going to a 5 and out of control, but as my stove get's older, 12 year's now, sensor's/switches could go bad and auto shutdown may not work if needed, but thats what's home insurance for.

Just turn it up to Nuclear Heat for an hour before you shut it down, then shutdown and wait for it to cool, I take forever to clean it, but still only takes an hour. That includes the heat exchanger, ash pan, burnpot, ignitor housing, glass, combustion fan, distribution fans, stove pipe adapter cleanout, the hopper, fines cleanout, etc. It looks like every two weeks will be the plan for now on, one week was a little too soon. But I do take the the brush and scraper to the inside every couple of days, and clean the glass, takes all of 5 minutes.

 

[krooser]

Ours stays on all winter, with shut downs for cleaning only. It always bothers me when the stove shuts down because I haven't fed it. With the current cost comparison between oil and pellets, it should never be out. If anyone knows of a way to do a full cleaning while the stove is running, I'm all ears

I understand that krooser is working on that project in his garage during his spare time, someone mentioned a lot of loud noise and bright lights.

I worry more about falling trees hitting the car when it is parked behind the house in what was the shade in summer than I do about the stove.

The tests are going very well... happy to report my neighbor moved to Florida saying he wanted to move to a cooler climate...

 

[gbreda]

LOL !!

Sorry Krooser, dont believe you did this one ....I cant see any duct tape :lol:

 

[www_godzilla]

My Quadrafire Sante Fe is on 24/7 except for the cleanings I give it. I fill it up every night I get home from work.
I do worry about Godzilla stepping on my house.

 

[Indiana]

Leave it on all the time. Putting a thermostat on soon.

 

[krooser]

LOL !!

Sorry Krooser, dont believe you did this one ....I cant see any duct tape :lol:

We are working on a new heat-resistant formula as we speak...