Still Burning, Anyone Else?
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sportbikerider78
Minister of Fire
33F this morning.
My wife:
"NY sucks. We get 3 months of nice weather".
Me:.
"Yes, I know".
My wife:
"NY sucks. We get 3 months of nice weather".
Me:.
"Yes, I know".
No fire in the stove tonight, after a glorious sunny day with highs of 19C. Am I done? Is it time to get the soot eater out? I'll give it 'til Sunday.
Just lit another fire tonight. It is getting to be way too common of a theme. Tonight's fire is sponsored by pallet wood. I broke down several pallets from my staging area this afternoon. I feel like I shouldn't be burning any "good" wood right now because I would rather save it for winter.
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Jay106n
Minister of Fire
Burned last night and fired it back up again this evening. Its been chilly. Now I don't feel so bad seeing everybody else in the area is still burning.
Plus I have a date with a few cord and the splitter tomorrow. That always helps.
Plus I have a date with a few cord and the splitter tomorrow. That always helps.
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
EXCELLENT!
We only buy 100 gals. every 2-3 years, which puts our usage at 33-50 gals/year = not bad!
Ashful
Minister of Fire
You guys suck. Thanks to burning 6 - 8 cord per year in two woodstoves, I'm down to purchasing only 1000 gallons per year. About 350 of those gallons go toward heating DHW.
Wow. I'm pretty sure I never used that much even before the wood stove.
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jetsam
Minister of Fire
I use maybe 100-150 gallons a year. It goes to the hot water heater and to the burner for the baseboard heat. (Those crazy things run all year and you're not supposed to shut them off.) I run it on 110 / 160 / 15. Didn't use it at all this year, so I may look into finding a way to safely shut it down completely, just fire it up when we go on vacation.
I don't have a way to tell how much of my oil use is domestic and how much is wasted running a boiler that I don't actually use, wish I did.
Stopped burning for about a month, but back at it in the morning as of this week. Spent last week in D.C. with the family and left the heat off. Came back to a house that was 59 (oops - got colder than expected) and fired up the insert to help warm the house back up and have had a fire in the morning since. Should start seeing much warmer temps this coming Monday, so tomorrow may be the last one.
Just fired the PE off, will be collecting kindling and a few totes of firewood tonight & tomorrow.
Going to be a pretty damp weekend, I'd rather be prepared, and if the T Stat says 62F, the oil burner won't run to ward off damp.
As far as oil usage this season, I think I did pretty well. 275 gallons of oil from October 15 - March 13, when the oil tank was full (550 tank), for the first time in 6 years (I shut down the electric HWH when I fixed the oil burner, still there for back up
). OB heat was called for when the apartment's 13 ran out of heat, and when on a really cold, long day for Long Island, the PE ran out of juice. Apt T Stat set @ 65 F, and my side @ 62 F. Includes hot water. Used about 2 1/2 cord of firewood this winter both both stoves.
Not complaining, at all, after 6 years of wood stoves & EHWH. PSEG bill has gone down $50 a month, too
Going to be a pretty damp weekend, I'd rather be prepared, and if the T Stat says 62F, the oil burner won't run to ward off damp.
As far as oil usage this season, I think I did pretty well. 275 gallons of oil from October 15 - March 13, when the oil tank was full (550 tank), for the first time in 6 years (I shut down the electric HWH when I fixed the oil burner, still there for back up
). OB heat was called for when the apartment's 13 ran out of heat, and when on a really cold, long day for Long Island, the PE ran out of juice. Apt T Stat set @ 65 F, and my side @ 62 F. Includes hot water. Used about 2 1/2 cord of firewood this winter both both stoves.Not complaining, at all, after 6 years of wood stoves & EHWH. PSEG bill has gone down $50 a month, too
twd000
Feeling the Heat
We've had 40-60 degree weather for about two weeks straight now in NH. I've been burning my Princess insert about as low as it will go, to avoid the restart cycle. Rainy weekend forecast , then next week should finally hit the 70s so that will be it for me.![[Hearth.com] Still Burning, Anyone Else?](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/197/197438-2d8bfed1d01a24b0c95bbefa6c21f89f.jpg?hash=gbpt9Xrehg "[Hearth.com] Still Burning, Anyone Else?")
Ashful
Minister of Fire
Yes you do! I can think of two quick ways, both of which I used as checks against the other:
1. Take note of how much oil is in your tank and the date when you turn your heat off in the spring. Then gauge how much is left (plus any added) in the fall, when you turn your heat back on. Divide by the number of days between, and that's your summer daily usage for DHW. Assume your winter daily DHW usage will be at least as high, unless you take colder and shorter showers in winter.
2. Track your oil deliveries against the number of calendar and heating degree days (HDD's) between. Plot as gallons/day vs. hdd/day, and then fit a linear trendline to it. Your y-intercept (hdd/day = 0) is your daily usage for DHW. This can also be double-checked by plotting usage throughout the year and eyeballing the summer valleys.
Small fires in the evening here as well. Burning mostly cedar at this point and saving my fir for next year.
Excavator
Feeling the Heat
yup still burning the old Encore here at night. Temps down to low 40 last few nights. Hate to wake up with cold house in morning when I have plenty to burn LOL
We burned a fire last night too! 65 inside temps as the sun went down, started a full sized fire, and woke up to outdoor temps in the upper 30s and frost on the roof and hot tub cover.
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