I just loaded a half load of low quality smaller stuff that should get me a couple of hours. 18 degrees and howling winds...
What Is In Your Stove Right Now?
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Cold and very windy! The wife and I hit some areas of black ice with snow on top coming home from an appointment. We were fine, but there were lots of folks stuck or spun out.
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It's 27.1 out tonight, the basement temp started out at 75 with the temps up here 69 & 70. The overnight load is four splits of ash with four splits of cherry.
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71 downstairs and 68 upstairs, 15 outside with -2 wind chill/real feel. 5 ash, 1 beech and a sugar maple round.
Couldn’t ask for better than that! Would cost you a fortune with oil, propane or NG.
Temperatures won't be anywhere near that come morning, but should be high enough to keep the electric baseboards from kicking on... Gotta love sprawling 1978 construction with electric baseboard heat 🙄.
Yeah that’s tough. My house is old too (1954) I’m fortunate enough I have a NG boiler with baseboard, a cold climate multi zoned heat pump, and the stove. We just use the mini splits for heat to keep bedroom above 66 degrees and then use the stove otherwise. Heat pump rarely runs during the day and minimally at night to keep the bedrooms topped up. Most of us like sleeping with the bedroom doors closed or barely open (for whatever reason). Our main rooms (kitchen/living room, open floor plan) is the hardest area to heat. Around 800 sq ft with most of it 12 foot vaulted ceilings. Stove is perfect for it.
That's hilarious! What size is that firebox?
Next time I get about $5k to burn I keep thinking about a BK Ashford or Sirocco 20.2
Even in singles I don't think burning 5k would produce many BTU's 🤣.
You laugh! Back in the 80's my parents had a paper log roller that was used to roll newspapers into logs and tied them up with twine!
You guys are toddlers....LOL
Records show my house at 1850. So that's when they started making a registry. If they didn't know the age, the house got labeled that year. My house could be even older.
Cold out. Stepped onto the porch for a second with my coffee in a t-shirt and, nipples said so. Went downstairs to feed the furnace.
Ash and norway maple splits to feed last night's coals.
Ash and norway maple splits to feed last night's coals.
My home was also built in 1850
The construction was done with hand-squared white cedar logs
cut and assembled on the farm. We are the 4 farming
family to own it and we have been here 45 years
I heat with a wood-fired furnace and a propane backup
When I bought the house it had an oil furnace and a Finlay Princess
cord wood-fired furnace talk about a wood pig
What are you running for a furnace now?
I'm using a Thermo-Control. Native to the area, they started making them around here in the mid 70s.
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Should have brought in some ironwood for last night's fire. House is cold and heaters are starting to kick in. Full size overnight load of 4 ash and 3 beech went in. I'm going to run a little hot (but safe) to get the temperature up quickly for awhile.
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