Yeah !!! Cold night in WESTERN MA!!! post what your using and house temp here!!!

Harman Advance
set @78
room at 78
adjoining rooms 73ish
upstairs 65
outside.............F ing cold about 36* and i'm on the coast......... how does that happen?????????????????? ;-P

Outside temp last night was 38 at bedtime, and at 630 am it was 36 outside with 70 degrees inside, before refresshing the Appalachian 32bwxl insert. Burning 3 year aged Oak.

Tonight it's 38 degrees outside and in the 70's inside but my wife let the stove go out before I got home and just after I put some wood in the stove, I a neighborhood kid called to see if I could pull her out of a ditch. The stove is burning nice and hot but the house had cooled to 68 by the time I got home from work tonight and I think the house itself is absorbing so much of the heat that's being created by the stove it'll be playing catchup all night. Weather is going to be identical tonight to last night and while the furnace slept all night last night, I expect that greedy beast to jump to life tonight.

Im in Ohio but right now its 29 degrees and I think its going to get colder. I have a wood furnace tied into the ducts and the whole house is 78 degrees right now. It will stay like that till 5:30am when I get up. I loaded it about 9:00 tonight.

Jotul Oslo
32 F outside, 78 F in the part of the house the stove is in, 68 F in the room farthest from the stove. Upstairs is 67 F.

Picture is of our cat, sucking up the heat in front of the stove. He'll bake one side, then rotate around to get the other. Usually he will stay downstairs until he gets cold as the fire cools down overnight, and then move upstairs onto the bed where we sleep.

Avalon mission wood stove, outside 35 degrees here in Tenn.............blower on low, house holding steady at 76 degrees.

Heating a 2 story house (1850 sq. ft.) with a couple splits of cherry wood every 3-4 hours or so.......doing very well so far.

Robbie

Yep, Zachary is pretty uniform in color, and we don't wash him at all. Of course, he's pretty much an indoor cat, so he doesn't have much opportunity to get dirty. That picture is about two hours old. He's cycled back and forth from the front of the fire to cool off. He's back in front now.

JotulOslo

27 outside both stoves running: Familly room Intrepid II cat lit off 74 manin house Encore cat lit off 72

Edit Added this morning
22 out 70 inside raked a good bed of coals (Encore)and loaded it up again stove top this morning 450 cat engaged. Heat radiating from the stove mass behind the stove
oil burner never came on Priceless

36 outside here in jersey, 75 in my insert room, 69 on the opposite side of the house and about 65 upstairs not bad for a 3000sft and have not yet turned on my furnace. Im saving money as we speak$$$

It 38 going down to 28 here in northen MD. I have a Yukon wood furnace so the whole house is @75.

30 degrees now heading for 25, just outside of Pittsburgh. Heating with an old wood furnace tapped into ductwork. 78 in the basement where the furnace is, 75 first floor, 70 in middle bedroom upstairs, 68 in other two bedrooms. Burning maple and locust lasting about 4 - 5 hours damped down. Finally starting to get a handle on this old beast.

Laynes, to get a long overnight burn, are you stuffing the firebox full or damping down?

32 degrees in the DC suburbs, I'm running the stove as low as I know how efficiently and letting the coals burn way down before reloading, 70-76 degrees throughout the house. That's my upper limit; in the summer I'll often set the A/C lower than that (maybe 74). Of course that's more of a humidity issue than a temperature issue. It will be down to the high 60's in the morning; I can't seem to quite achieve the promised 8-hour burns (more like 6).

Pacific Energy Summit , 2 story house , 1800 sf .
Stove room (front room / dining room) 75°
kitchen 74°
Rear family room 73°
Computer room 73°
3 bed rooms up stairs 71°

37° outside. low of 32° tonight.

Vermont Castings Cat Encore
1800 SF main living area
living Room, Kitchen 75
bedrooms around 70
Outside temp -25

81 in the living room when I went to bed OOOOOOOPS!
Yes, I got a little carried away. Dampered it down all the way with the stack at 400.

75 when I got up and mid 60's in the bedrooms
Still enough coals to throw a few logs on so its toasty for the wife and kids.

DADDY! THATS A NICE WARM TOASTY FIRE!

Red oak with a split or two of Maple
I put one ugly ass gorilla piece of oak in and that lasted 6 hours.
I really should have taken a picture of this freakish piece of wood.

Oh, I guess I should mention it was 24 outside when I got up.

about 7:15 here
2200 sqft two story
24 degrees outside
Osburn 1800i
75 in the livingroom (just reloaded the stove)
70 in kitchen
Short sleeves feel just about right

johnsopi said:

It 38 going down to 28 here in northen MD. I have a Yukon wood furnace so the whole house is @75.

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John, I've been curious about the Yukon Eagle furnaces for a couple years. Never could find someone who had one. We replaced our whole hvac system this year and I would have loved to put in a Yukon but noone around here knows anything about dual fuel systems like that. Do you have electric, gas, or oil for the secondary heat on it, and have you ever run it with out wood. if so how efficient is it without the wood fire?

Sorry for so many questions but as I said, you are the first person I've ever actually heard of who I could ask about it.

David

Went to bed at 10- Stove had been running since about 4 house was 71- added 2 splits of maple
At 6 am, house was 62

Stove was still warm, not much coals left.. rolled 2 sheets of newspaper, small bit of cherry kindling, and another bit of very crappy, very dry wood in small splits..

1 match - took right off

7:45 house is 66

used 3 splits of maple

CFM 240007
Self installed-
Saving Money every moment!!

I do run a 10 inch oscillating fan on low to even out the heat- Heating 2 br, 1 bath, LR, Kitchen, Utility room, laundry room.

Not bad for a cheapie stove from LOWES.

I have the big jack add on furnace this is my second year with it. If I had know about the duel furnces I would have put one of the in. It work very well for me the house is all ways warm and in the summer I run both blowers and it kick the cold air upstair real good. My house is @ 2000spft in North MD. Their customer sevice seems to know alot give them a call. I have to go but will write more latter if you have any ?.

Paul Johnson

pistonslap said:

Laynes, to get a long overnight burn, are you stuffing the firebox full or damping down?

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When you guys talk about dampering down, what do you mean and why? Why not let it burn wide open all night to get the maximum heat output through the night then toss on a couple of logs in the morning. I have an insert and it only has one lever for air control. Do the freestanding stoves you guys use work differently?

Its 29 degrees outside this morning. Stove was on from yesterday at 4:00PM, with my last load being at 11:30PM. When I woke up, the stove was at 350 degrees, the living room, where the stove is, was at 72 degrees, and the rest of that zone (~1700 sq/ft total) was at 70. I left the door upstairs open to get some of the heat into my bedroom, and that was 66 when I woke up at 6:00. As usual, the boiler turned on to get that zone up to 70 and take the chill off (and silence my southern Californian wife, who hates cold). I'll let the fire completely die down now, and have opened all the double cellular shades over the back windows. There are 12 windows on the back of the house in a central atrium, each one is 3' by 5' and the floor is all stone tile. The sun bakes the floor, and will keep the house at 72-74 today, based on a predicted 49 degree high. I'll restart the stove just before sunset, at about 4:00PM.

-- Mike