Just finished up my first week of burning with my new Oslo. Having lots of fun tinkering with the stove and figuring out what works and what doesn't.
But what has surprised me the most are my early morning temps in the house. 65-67 in our bedroom (right above the stove room) and 65 in the living room (stove room) and surounding rooms. My 1829 2100sq ft (heated) maintance differed fixer-upper house is actually holding heat! And here I was expecting it to loose heat like it was missing part of the roof! LOL I guess there must be insulation in the walls somewhere. (I've already checked tha attic.) Stove top temps in the morning are 100 or so. Barely warmer than the room. It looks like we'll be able to heat our house with this stove and an auxillary electric heater in the kitchen once I get it humming. Yippee!
We bought the house in Feb 2011 and burned 60 gal/$200 of oil that first week with house temps at 55. (We didn't move it untill May because of work being done on the house. Sexy stuff like upgraded electrical system, redone plumbing, new roof) Man would it be nice to turn that oil boiler off. Now to convince my hubby we can do it with out freezing... He's conservative about things like that. I have to bite my tongue when he turns the heat up to 68 just before we get into bed. (But we're just going to get under the covers honey! throw on another blanket and cuddle up if you're cold!) Or course with the wood stove right under our bed, we are finding the temps in our room a nice comfy 68-69 without help from the boiler. (Thank you Jotul!)
Now I just have to work on being able to get the stove temps up consistantly and my burn time. Sometimes I struggle to get it to 400, others I get it up to 650 with out much trouble. (BTW- how hot it too hot for the Oslo?) My wood status is who knows. It came with the house, one cord c/s/s since Aug. 2010 MIN. (owner passed away July 2010, so I think it was probably c/s/s a while before that) Soon though we will have to buy some "seasoned" wood for the remainder of the year. And yes, we'll be buying some seasoned in the spring and stacking it for next year.
Any advice on getting longer burn times? I'm not getting more than 4 hours, usually 3 hours. And I define it by coals that can start a split and ST temps around 300. I supose I can just feed the stove when DS wakes up for his feeding, but zombie mommy doesn't always have that extra energy in her. A toddler and a baby really takes it out of a person!
Happy Oslo burner.
Oh and I do have before and after picts. The stove that came with the house was kind of scary to this novice wood burner. It turns out it was a coal stove too not a wood stove. I'll post when I have time... which with a toddler and a baby may be another year!
But what has surprised me the most are my early morning temps in the house. 65-67 in our bedroom (right above the stove room) and 65 in the living room (stove room) and surounding rooms. My 1829 2100sq ft (heated) maintance differed fixer-upper house is actually holding heat! And here I was expecting it to loose heat like it was missing part of the roof! LOL I guess there must be insulation in the walls somewhere. (I've already checked tha attic.) Stove top temps in the morning are 100 or so. Barely warmer than the room. It looks like we'll be able to heat our house with this stove and an auxillary electric heater in the kitchen once I get it humming. Yippee!
We bought the house in Feb 2011 and burned 60 gal/$200 of oil that first week with house temps at 55. (We didn't move it untill May because of work being done on the house. Sexy stuff like upgraded electrical system, redone plumbing, new roof) Man would it be nice to turn that oil boiler off. Now to convince my hubby we can do it with out freezing... He's conservative about things like that. I have to bite my tongue when he turns the heat up to 68 just before we get into bed. (But we're just going to get under the covers honey! throw on another blanket and cuddle up if you're cold!) Or course with the wood stove right under our bed, we are finding the temps in our room a nice comfy 68-69 without help from the boiler. (Thank you Jotul!)
Now I just have to work on being able to get the stove temps up consistantly and my burn time. Sometimes I struggle to get it to 400, others I get it up to 650 with out much trouble. (BTW- how hot it too hot for the Oslo?) My wood status is who knows. It came with the house, one cord c/s/s since Aug. 2010 MIN. (owner passed away July 2010, so I think it was probably c/s/s a while before that) Soon though we will have to buy some "seasoned" wood for the remainder of the year. And yes, we'll be buying some seasoned in the spring and stacking it for next year.
Any advice on getting longer burn times? I'm not getting more than 4 hours, usually 3 hours. And I define it by coals that can start a split and ST temps around 300. I supose I can just feed the stove when DS wakes up for his feeding, but zombie mommy doesn't always have that extra energy in her. A toddler and a baby really takes it out of a person!
Happy Oslo burner.
Oh and I do have before and after picts. The stove that came with the house was kind of scary to this novice wood burner. It turns out it was a coal stove too not a wood stove. I'll post when I have time... which with a toddler and a baby may be another year!
