Use the wood now and stall on the oil as long as possible. I hear an indefinite warm up is right around the corner and you could be saving that wood for nothing. Besides, once that wood is gone, you deserve to rest and let the oil handle whatever nominal heating needs are left this season!
That's what I think every other day. The other days, I remember how weary I am of the weeks of fighting the cold with a stove that isn't quite up to it, loading and reloading and hauling and lugging and... So I've decided not to decide. When I feel like using the stove, primarily on weekends when I can enjoy lounging around it and can keep an eye on the burn cycle, I use the stove. Other days, I let the boiler do the job. We've got one more (knock on wood) below-zero night coming up tomorrow night, and after that, it should be a piece of cake.
I understand. Best of luck to you. Probably best to just do what you feel. Happiness in life is first and foremost!
Well, it's an unusual year, following a somewhat less brutal but also unusual year. I sure hope we don't have another one of these any time soon, but the Weather Gods do what they do when they feel like it. We haven't had all that much snow, just the cold, and only for a bit over a month, though it seems more like years right now. The cold here in winter is generally very dry, so single digits don't feel as cold when you're out in them as the much warmer winter temperatures do where i used to live outside Boston, with its humid winter winds. So really, the only problem is interior heating, which a bigger stove and/or a better insulated place than mine would take care of even in these temperatures.I understand. Best of luck to you. Probably best to just do what you feel. Happiness in life is first and foremost!
Have wanted to move to the Burlington area for years and just haven't been able to bite and do it. I love winter and I love snow but your testimony helps keep my feet firmly planted
Seems like this may be the new normal; I think I may get a bigger stove and stack more wood.
What's just maddening is that this year, I had told my supplier I wanted to get in an extra cord just in case after the misery of last winter, but he talked me out of it, presumably because he was having trouble fulfilling the demand from everybody who was spooked last year. I was one of his first customers and have sent him a fair amount of business for his chimney and stove install services, as well as buying a lot of his firewood, so I'm pretty sure I can get away with pressing it this year,. and I fully intend to. Whether it's really a new normal or not, the weather and climate people hereabouts don't seem to know, but the firewood in my stacks is never going to go to waste if I get more than I need. I would love just once to get to the end of the heating season with something more than punky scraps of low-BTU crap lying around and the living room furniture starting to look good for the stove!Seems like this may be the new normal; I think I may get a bigger stove and stack more wood.
My brother lived in Northfield. Beautiful area but I'd need to be closer to Burlington to get the WAF
My brother lived in Northfield. Beautiful area but I'd need to be closer to Burlington to get the WAF
I get it. One definitely does have to accommodate the concerns and preferences of one's life partner or it ain't a real partnership.Wife Approval Factor, usually related to or used in the context of a masculine choice of wood stove not being up to par with the femanine status quo. Wow, I sound misogynistic...
