Lost the power last night around 9:00pm. I told my wife we're gonna heat the house with the stove. My daughter also had 2 friends over. Usually I just use the stove to supplement my gas heat and enjoy the smell and flames from the stove. I usually only have 1 or 2 splits at the most in the stove.
From reading this forum, I decided to pack the stove on a nice bed of coals and turn the air down very low for a long overnight burn. In the past when I would try to turn the air down with a split or two, the fire would smolder. Well, I put 4 splits in (5/8 full stove) on a nice bed of coals and turned the air down. The fire was dancing (I guess the splits like friends). I kept waiting for it to go out, but it kept on going. Looked like 100 little ghosts flying around in the box. It was the most beautiful burn I have ever had. Didn't even wanna go to sleep, but eventually fell asleep. The stove which is on the main floor warmed the upstairs bedrooms at around 66 degrees .... not bad and very manageable. The fire lasted 4 hours, I set the alarm and then I reloaded with 3 more splits which lasted another 3 hours
My stove is a Hampton 300 ... 1.7 cu ft ..... I thought the time of the overnight burn considering the size of the stove was efficient, or do some of you folks think I should of got more. Maybe filling the stove 90% full would give me more time, but I was a little concerned with too much wood and little air that the fire would smolder when sleeping.
From reading this forum, I decided to pack the stove on a nice bed of coals and turn the air down very low for a long overnight burn. In the past when I would try to turn the air down with a split or two, the fire would smolder. Well, I put 4 splits in (5/8 full stove) on a nice bed of coals and turned the air down. The fire was dancing (I guess the splits like friends). I kept waiting for it to go out, but it kept on going. Looked like 100 little ghosts flying around in the box. It was the most beautiful burn I have ever had. Didn't even wanna go to sleep, but eventually fell asleep. The stove which is on the main floor warmed the upstairs bedrooms at around 66 degrees .... not bad and very manageable. The fire lasted 4 hours, I set the alarm and then I reloaded with 3 more splits which lasted another 3 hours
My stove is a Hampton 300 ... 1.7 cu ft ..... I thought the time of the overnight burn considering the size of the stove was efficient, or do some of you folks think I should of got more. Maybe filling the stove 90% full would give me more time, but I was a little concerned with too much wood and little air that the fire would smolder when sleeping.