Cold Stove House Temp Observation

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mikesin said:
I am betting your thermometer is right on - and think it has everything to do with humidity. Wood heat will dry a house and get rid of the bone chilling feeling that higher humidity/same temp gives you. Do you have a hydrometer?
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I think it's called hygrometer. And I would agree...humidity plays such a big part of it...we have a piano & classical guitar so my hygrometer...tells me when to run our humidifier to keep our instruments happy around 40% humidity.
 
neumsky said:
mikesin said:
I am betting your thermometer is right on - and think it has everything to do with humidity. Wood heat will dry a house and get rid of the bone chilling feeling that higher humidity/same temp gives you. Do you have a hydrometer?
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I think it's called hygrometer. And I would agree...humidity plays such a big part of it...we have a piano & classical guitar so my hygrometer...tells me when to run our humidifier to keep our instruments happy around 40% humidity./quote]

Yes, you are correct, thanks for the clarification. Can you tell I had my saltwater display on my mind, lol. We use a hydrometer to check specific gravity of the saltwater.
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Hahaha. What is a saltwater display?
 
We used to have one of those...Lotta work!
 
jeff_t said:
Why is it? Yesterday was sunny, breezy, low 60s, with the stove at low burn, and 72-73 was way too warm in here. Right now, it's drizzling, gloomy, upper 40s, stove is lumbering along at 450, and 75 doesn't feel quite warm enough.
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It was 74 in the house yesterday just from solar gain. Both me and the wife were cold. Normally 68 is very comfortable when stove is going.
 
I think we should all just revert back to our furnace haha.
 
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