What Is In Your Stove Right Now?

[Gearhead660]

Wow real cold out your way tonight!

We will be sending the cold your way! Should be there in a couple days.

 

[MRD1985]

We will be sending the cold your way! Should be there in a couple days.

Bring it on! Got plenty of wood. I love the cold weather. It’s been so long here since we have had a very cold snowy winter. I miss the winters when I was a kid.

I used to be so stressed about cost to keep our house warm in the winter. With the stove I put in last winter that stress relief has disappeared. It’s quite a relief. I can now enjoy the cold weather as it comes.

 

[Gearhead660]

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.

If they are toddlers, I must be a teenager. Big old farm house, circa 1890. No issues heating it when its cold, but when the winds pick up, its like a window is wide open.

 

[Dieselhead]

Bring it on! Got plenty of wood. I love the cold weather. It’s been so long here we have had a very cold snowy winter. I miss the winters when I was a kid.

We got snow today. Nice to see some white on the ground before Christmas. Gets me in the mood!

 

[Gearhead660]

Bring it on! Got plenty of wood. I love the cold weather. It’s been so long here we have had a very cold snowy winter. I miss the winters when I was a kid.

Same here. Plenty of wood. If its cold I want snow so I can go play with the kids.

 

[MRD1985]

We got snow today. Nice to see some white on the ground before Christmas. Gets me in the mood!

We got a bit today too. Very wet stuff though.

Side not, this load has been A+. Cruising 650-700 for about an hour plus.

 

[NickW]

Almost 4 years after installing this stove I think I just found a better hot reload procedure 😜.

 

[ctreitzell]

I miss we’d yesterday and burned outside before the rains hit for four or five solid days

Last night I was too fried to build a fire and in the house was like 56F/13.5C. Yahoo currently says 13C with RealFeel at 7C/ 45F…it’s alway 2C cooler at my place

Today the house is still around 57F/ 14F and we trying to keep the elec limited as possible

I made a top-down with a bit of everything
Ash & Poplar splits
Elm & Oak pieces
And plenty of super dry apple twigs to start…again, this little gas torch is makin my life sooooo much easier

 

[ctreitzell]

Late to the party...been in the 20's here but up to 37 today, down to the 20's Thurs & Fri, 40's for the weekend and down to the 20 next week. Wish it would make up its mind! Burning white oak, shagbark hickory and siberian elm and some silver maple. Walnut is further into the pile. Ash has disappeared from this area about 6 or 7 years ago. Burned a lot of it then.

I love that Siberian Elm!! That said, I injured my hip a little last weekend splitting a stubborn log…I just didn’t realize until sittin on the couch later in the evening

 

[ctreitzell]

Yeah that’s tough. My house is old too (1954)

! I think all my houses were built in the 1890s!

This converted barn I live in was “finished” in 1991, tho

 

[ozarkoak]

Went to bed at 1am 50 degrees outside 70 inside. Woke up at 6am 29 outside 60 inside and wind hammering. Loaded a few splits of oak to warm her up, and just loaded 3/4 full with some larger oak splits. Roller coaster weather this fall/winter. Supposed to be 60 by Saturday.

 

[thewoodlands]

We had a low of 30 this morning, the basement temp started off at 72 with both temps up here at 68. I'm feeling like chit today, I really didn't feel like making a fire but I went down to the wood stove and then loaded it up with ash and cherry.

 

[johneh]

What are you running for a furnace now?

I have a 4-year-old Napoleon Hybrid 150
matched with a Napoleon 9600 propane furnace
I have to have the propane for ins. here you have
to have an automatic heating system.
I love the furnace it sips wood. We normally
now use 3 to 4-cord sugar maple, red oak, and some
elm and now a lot of ash. The old Summer air oil combo
was a wood hog, up to 10 cords of hardwood a year

 

[all night moe]

If they are toddlers, I must be a teenager. Big old farm house, circa 1890. No issues heating it when its cold, but when the winds pick up, its like a window is wide open.

Been working on some of my drafty widows. Made interior storms for a few. 1x2'' frames and covered on both sides with 4mil clear plastic. Package tape on the edges protects the plastic from removing and installing. Weather stripping on the edges too. Makes em seasonal in and out. It helps. Other windows I plan on ditching the weights and filling pockets with insulation. I'll convert those to the peg style hold opens. Origional portion of house has those pegged windows, with hand blown glass. I don't have it in me to update them. They're beautiful.

 

[stoveliker]

I just video supervised my wife in her lighting of the stove from afar. 39 and slush falling. Going to get very windy tomorrow with a high then of 36. So a fire is good.
Apart from some smoke roll out at the start due to insufficiently long propane torch into the flue against the reverse draft, it worked well.

 

[Wildflush]

Couldn’t ask for better than that! Would cost you a fortune with oil, propane or NG.

I have NG always been cheap now going up 24% this season.

 

[Wildflush]

I just video supervised my wife in her lighting of the stove from afar. 39 and slush falling. Going to get very windy tomorrow with a high then of 36. So a fire is good.
Apart from some smoke roll out at the start due to insufficiently long propane torch into the flue against the reverse draft, it worked well.

My wife was sending me texts and stove Pics while I was hunting 😂She wanted to make sure everything was ok.

 

[Wildflush]

We will be sending the cold your way! Should be there in a couple days.

Yes coming tomorrow. Single digit wind chills. Got my wood staged for the next 3 days.

 

[Wildflush]

I’ve been running small reloads of 3 splits just to keep house at 72. Will be running full bore tomorrow.

 

[MRD1985]

I have NG always been cheap now going up 24% this season.

When it’s pretty cold I used to spend 250-300 per month on gas to keep the house warm. Only at 65. Never mind what I have it at now. My boiler has been off since February. Boiler is a last resort heat at this point

 

[MRD1985]

I have NG always been cheap now going up 24% this season.

I’m close to $2 per therm here

 

[Wildflush]

When it’s pretty cold I used to spend 250-300 per month on gas to keep the house warm. Only at 65. Never mind what I have it at now. My boiler has been off since February. Boiler is a last resort heat at this point

Even before our wood stove gas was pretty reasonable. Coldest month of the year bill was $220 and that is with gas hot water, Burnham boiler, gas dryer and stove. House is was built over the last 20 years so very efficient. Put some new windows and slider in a few years back and noticed a big improvement. Gas bill cut in half with the stove. Friends with oil were spending $600-$1,200 depending on oil cost.

Our stove is a supplement split between mini split and NG boiler.

 

[Wildflush]

I’m close to $2 per therm here

$1.70 here. Current bill is $55 30% less than last year.

 

[MRD1985]

Even before our wood stove gas was pretty reasonable. Coldest month of the year bill was $220 and that is with gas hot water, Burnham boiler, gas dryer and stove. House is was built over the last 20 years so very efficient. Put some new windows and slider in a few years back and noticed a big improvement. Gas bill cut in half with the stove. Friends with oil were spending $600-$1,200 depending on oil cost.

Yeah that cost was usually December thru February for me. I spent around $1500 per season for heat (October to April). Mine is older (1954) but I have replaced a lot of the windows but still has some originals left including a large picture window and deck double door. I had a lot more insulation added to areas where there was an attic which did help along with the windows, but still was more than I wanted to pay. I don’t have a condensing boiler. Mine used to be oil fired and put a gas conversion burner on it when we moved in almost 12 years ago.

Right now only using gas water heater and with customer charge costs me $38/month

 

[Wildflush]

Yeah that cost was usually December thru February for me. I spent around $1500 per season for heat (October to April). Mine is older (1954) but I have replaced a lot of the windows but still has some originals left including a large picture window and deck double door. I had a lot more insulation added to areas where there was an attic which did help along with the windows, but still was more than I wanted to pay. I don’t have a condensing boiler. Mine used to be oil fired and put a gas conversion burner on it when we moved in almost 12 years ago.

Right now only using gas water heater and with customer charge costs me $38/month

I use to feel the cool air coming into our kitchen from the slider before I put a new Harvey in. Thermostat would call more.