It is crazy to let the stove go out in December

I haven't had a fire in couple days. I have the stove loaded for a cold start, Super Cedar and all, but haven't had the need to light it in a couple days. Could have this morning, but it would have cooked my wife out of the house. She just ran the boiler for a short time to bring the house temps up.

Dixie, I saw a work van with "Icy Hollow" in the company name today. I have never heard anyone else use that phrase to describe that area before. I immediately thought of you.

Haven't had a fire in 2 days now. Whereas we were burning 24/7 last week during thanksgiving. gave me a chance to pull out the cat and check it out still looking pretty intact after an over fire a couple weeks ago and it is still lighting off normally.

If my wife didn't start a fire tonight (working 3rd shift) I will likely get up on the roof and peek down the chimney this morning as well.

Obviously it depends on where you live, what your weather is doing and other factors about your house. For me, this time of year I rarely have the stove going for more than a small fire at night. When temps don't get into the 20's or it is overcast in the 20's, for multiple days, then I start needing a fairly consistent fire.

It's -2.2 here. I have the king going AND the enerzone. Yes I'm warm!

let mine go out yesterday

We're even feeling the warm spell this morning in our neck of the woods!
Woke up to 32 degF (0degC) this morning....
I didn't realize it was so mild out, so I went about my normal morning routine and loaded the stove right up around 5:30am.......I'm now close to opening windows.....

I wish we were under a warm spell, currently have -21.

-3 here this morning, time to start burning a bit hotter low and slow ain't cutting it with these temps.

I had no fire yesterday or today. Although I did throw a few splits on last night for the overnight, but I really didn't need to. I am completely fine with the warmer weather. I've been splitting wood for next year, and every day the stove doesn't run is more wood for next year as well.

-27 wind chill here this morning, stove top at 500 or so with fan running, flue temp at 500, damn high flue temps drive me crazy.

If mine went out i would probably freeze and die if i didnt wake up!

Been below -30c this whole week, -35c last night, but looking like its going to warm back up a tad for the weekend which will be nice, maybe ill go cut another cord of wood

Sinngetreu said:

Nothing exciting, we have a propane boiler and had that as our primary heat for years. This year we bought a box stove for the basement and are heating with wood primarily. It started out as a cost savings venture, but it has progressed into an obsession. I'm a hobby woodcarver, so I was wood obsessed before now, but now its in overdrive. So far, the boiler hasn’t even been turned on yet. Don't even want to think of buying propane if I can help it.

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I hope you're not talking about a Vogelzang boxwood stove..

65 degrees here yesterday, of course the stove went out. Like BB, was out in a short sleeve shirt yesterday. Only I was replacing C-7 bulbs on the roof. We let ours go out all the time (ex. work, temp., etc). That is also why I go through a lot of Super Cedars.

It is crazy warm here. I drove back last night from Virginia Beach where it was 64 degrees and was only 59 degrees when I arrived home which is at 4000 ft. elevation in the western North Carolina mountains. It is 61 degrees outside now and is supposed to be in the lower 40's or upper 30's in the morning. The only draw back to letting the PH go out is that it takes the soapstone a while to heat up but once it is hot.....go baby go It does look like I will be burning for the coming week.

begreen said:

Take advantage of this brief break to clean out the ashes from the firebox. Cold weather is coming across most of the country real soon.

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I saw that this morning. I'm going to load as much fire wood as I can into the house this weekend.

I had a small overnight last night and let it go out. Didn't start it this morning and when I got home, inside temp was 68. Just threw in a few sticks to warm it up. Not much longer and temps go south. Looking at single digits overnight in a few days!

Just fired up the Ashford, it's been out for 36hrs, house temp fell to 65, outside 35.

I let mine go out over on this side of the state too... cool stove for a couple days, great opportunity to remove some already cool ash... now stove is rocking again!

-18f or worse every night here for the past few days.... just got the water running tonight and waiting for the bathtub drain to unfreeze..... I'll be doing some major crawlspace insulation over the next few weeks as I can afford the batts.

The 2100 has done a great job, I do have the electric baseboard running in the bathroom (furthest from the stove) to keep the pipes warm back there but other than that, all wood heat so far this winter. Found some black locust I can score for a good deal for our area so that is next on the list..... and I'm definitely looking at ripping out the 2100 for a Blazeking asap. I'd like it if I didn't need to turn on ANY electric baseboard all winter long!

Unfinished basement with exposed pipes, no risk of pipes freezing here. An added bonus is that the Main bath is directly above the Summit, I have had many people ask if we have in-floor heat in the bathroom. Hardest thing about letting the stove go out this time of year for me is the amount of time it takes to reheat the house. It does well once it gets going but trying to heat up 2600 sq/f from cold takes a few hours, more of a thermal mass issue than a stove issue.

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Unfinished basement with exposed pipes, no risk of pipes freezing here. An added bonus is that the Main bath is directly above the Summit, I have had many people ask if we have in-floor heat in the bathroom. Hardest thing about letting the stove go out this time of year for me is the amount of time it takes to reheat the house. It does well once it gets going but trying to heat up 2600 sq/f from cold takes a few hours, more of a thermal mass issue than a stove issue.

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A home that size is a challenge for ANY stove!