Well... this weekend is shot

[Badfish740]

Everybody survive the night? Weather.com is telling me 0 degrees here but the sensor underneath my back deck says 1. I'm betting that's due to the massive amount of heat that leaks out of the envelope of my house Went to bed (10:00 p.m.) with the house at 74 and a full firebox and woke up to 63 and a nice bed of coals. Now I'm feeding wood into the furnace like a locomotive fireman trying to get the temperature back up to 74 for the wife and kiddies all day. Looks like the snow that's been beating up on Brother Bart is headed my way (NJ) on Tuesday.

 

[ironpony]

Not if you a couple inside projects...................and a pellet stove.

 

[Dix]

Made it through. Woke up to 62 F inside -3 F outside.

 

[Ashful]

-2F here. Unheated attic never dropped below 48F, and I'm not sure if that's good (for the plumbing in my attic) or bad (noting my heat losses). My 10 year old pickup still fired just fine this morning, on it's original battery, but was noticeably less happy on that first turn. Was mighty cold heading out to the porch for firewood in my jammies and slippers... windchill is -18F.

My boiler seems to be ideally sized for my house, in that it's running almost continuously on mornings like this, getting the house back up to temp (programmable t'stats at 62F overnight, 70F in the morning). It's doing the job just fine, but we do seem to be approaching it's capacity at -2F, which is about as cold as it gets around here.

 

[ironpony]

-2F here. Unheated attic never dropped below 48F, and I'm not sure if that's good (for the plumbing in my attic) or bad (noting my heat losses). My 10 year old pickup still fired just fine this morning, on it's original battery, but was noticeably less happy on that first turn. Was mighty cold heading out to the porch for firewood in my jammies and slippers... windchill is -18F.

My boiler seems to be ideally sized for my house, in that it's running almost continuously on mornings like this, getting the house back up to temp (programmable t'stats at 62F overnight, 70F in the morning). It's doing the job just fine, but we do seem to be approaching it's capacity at -2F, which is about as cold as it gets around here.

I drove by this morning and there was a 45 degree bubble around your place from heat loss...............

 

[Warm_in_NH]

Haven't seen positive double digit temps in 3 days. Been as low as 12 below, winds howling for the past 24 hours, with temps currently at 8 below (don't want to know the wind chill).
First time ever that I got up at 2:30 am and reloaded the stove. Still was 10 degrees cooler than normal in the house this morning. Crazy cold snowy stretch of weather!
Could be worse, could be in down town boston with more snow, no stove, and no way to get around.

 

[jharkin]

-2F here. Unheated attic never dropped below 48F, and I'm not sure if that's good (for the plumbing in my attic) or bad (noting my heat losses).

You got me to thinking... Just went up to the attic, and sure enough, IR gun shows the attic floor is about 40F and the rafters and roof deck around 36-38F. This with current +2F outside and 74F in the living room below. No surprise I have such massive ice dams


I dont really have the space to get any more insulation in, and Ive done about as much air sealing as I think is possible without ripping down the ceiling. I need to work on ventilation up there.

 

[maple1]

This was a bad one, yowsers. Power out for 18 hours overnight, and another cold blizzard that I'm sure dumped another 2 feet. My Toro sucked snow into the carb 3 times, and I'm seizing up - might not be able to get myself off the couch to go to bed. Make it stop!

 

[Swedishchef]

I spent 5 hours wrestling my blower.. And I still have 1 hour left. Drifts were 4 feet high at some places. The wind kept swirling and was fierce. It was near impossible to not get it in your face with all the swirling......I am not often sore but tonight I ak beat. Digging out my basement windows and dryer vent did me in for the night. 50+ cm. ugh.

A

 

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[Swedishchef]

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That about sums up my 5 hours. WICKED winter gear, balaclava, ski googles worked great. My nose still felt like it was getting sand blasted though.

Andrew

 

[lefty]

don,t have a blower, but my friend clears the rink lot next to me with a big new Holland tractor, & no sign of anyone around, nothing no plows on the highways or my secondary roads, this is worse than white YUAN, ever was, here on P. E I, & I ran out of pellets seems to be a shortage in the hub,

 

[bag of hammers]

Weather guy todays says we get a short repreive then the "core" of this arctic blast is supposed to drop on us (upper Great Lakes) @ Thursday - back down to -30 C then it's heading east to torture you guys even more. I had the stove rolling this weekend - woke up Sat morning @8:00 to 60 deg inside - that was even after tossing in a couple nice splits @ 5:00 when I let the pup out for a pee. Tons of coals, still throwing a bit of heat at 8, but not enough to keep me toasty. Stuffed 'er full of yellow birch my primo stuff 3+ years on the stack and let it rip again. Sunny afternoon sure helped warm the place up again.

 

[Ashful]

That about sums up my 5 hours. WICKED winter gear, balaclava...

That stuff won't keep you warm!

 

[lefty]

hey had some of that for supper home made too made by my lovely wife

 

[Ashful]

Lucky man. I only get it once per year, at Christmas, when one of our vendors drops off large box for us.

ps -- I was joking.

 

[Swedishchef]

Lol
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaclava_(clothing)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baklava (sweet pastry made of layers of filo filled with chopped nuts and sweetened and held together with syrup or honey)

 

[Ashful]

It's not funny, if you have to explain it to people, Andrew. [emoji12]

 

[Devon]

I'm redoing my house so it's half ripped down woodstove blasting and furnace

 

[maple1]

don,t have a blower, but my friend clears the rink lot next to me with a big new Holland tractor, & no sign of anyone around, nothing no plows on the highways or my secondary roads, this is worse than white YUAN, ever was, here on P. E I, & I ran out of pellets seems to be a shortage in the hub,

Saw a snow map last night after I posted. We got 65cms, and you guys got over 80. I was thinking yesterday this was as bad as Juan, but it doesn't seem to have gotten quite the airplay though. Just like Arthur in July - that was the worst one I have ever sat through in this house. Stay warm!

 

[Swedishchef]

It's not funny, if you have to explain it to people, Andrew. [emoji12]

I thought maybe you read a typo or something. LOL. I am sure some didn't get it..I felt the cynicism but wasn't 100% certain.

A

 

[Swedishchef]

Saw a snow map last night after I posted. We got 65cms, and you guys got over 80. I was thinking yesterday this was as bad as Juan, but it doesn't seem to have gotten quite the airplay though. Just like Arthur in July - that was the worst one I have ever sat through in this house. Stay warm!

PEI got hammered. I was there during 3 major storms in 1 week last winter. They don't have much snow removal equipment. That's the hard part.

We got 54cm. What a mess...

A

 

[firefighterjake]

I thought maybe you read a typo or something. LOL. I am sure some didn't get it..I felt the cynicism but wasn't 100% certain.

A

It's OK . . . for a while when I first got into snowmobiling my buddy used to make fun of me when I told him I needed to get a new baklava or put my baklava on. And yes . . . I was being serious. D'oh.