Cold outside. Thank god for wood heat

Yes - and thank God for back up heat when it's that cold - was -13 here a few days ago and had to burn a little oil to keep the house warm! Cheers!

NH_Wood said:

Yes - and thank God for back up heat when it's that cold - was -13 here a few days ago and had to burn a little oil to keep the house warm! Cheers!

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Yep - my stove held the house to 68 during that stretch here (Dover), when usually it'll get to 74 no problem. Unfortunately, my wife got used to 74 - and I had to turn the natgas heat on as backup for the nights.

-JE

Gee...y'all make me feel bad down here in the south....

It was 5* ~6am....drifted down to 2* at 9am on the plateau today with ~3" of snow on the ground, winds have died down a bit.....down to -5* tonight...

The kid loves the stove....

I'm all ready for the cold. Temperature is 24 and slowly falling with 30 MPH winds. Supposed to get down to -6 tonight and high of 8 tomorrow. Stay warm

Well I thought I'd wait until tonight to write this but it's pretty clear how this is going to go. Anyone who isn't a bit of a geek may want to just skip.

As I stated it is brutally cold here today. High was -9 with a -33 wind chill. I wanted to track my up and downstairs temperatures today while running my Hearthstone Homestead with the furnace fan only funning (not providing additional heat). Here are my results, I am pleased to say the least:

Time Outside temperature/windchill Inside temperature basement/upstairs Notes
0800 -19/-41 67/71 Coals-loaded stove at 0806. NG furnace running
0900 -17/-42 71/72 NG furnace no longer running fan on only. Stove set to low
1000 -15/-38 73/72 stove on low fan running
1100 -14/-38 72/72 stove on low fan running
1200 -12/-37 74/73 stove on low fan running
1300 -12/-37 74/74 stove on low fan running
1400 -9/-33 74/75 stove on low fan running
1500 -10/-32 73/75 loaded stove and air control wide open
1600 -10/-33 74/75 stove back on low fan on NG furnace running still not providing any heat
1700 -10/-31 74/75 stove on low fan running.

I'm sitting next to it right now and we are slow cooking a pork roast on it. I have lived with this stove 3 years but this is the first time I've been this scientific in gathering data for how it heats our home. It is more even than I expected and obviously the squirrel cage on my furnace helps move the air. This is officially the coldest conditions I've run it in and suffice it to say this stove does what I need it to and more. Had I wanted to I could have made it too hot in here today.

Lopiliberty did you make the rolling racks yourself out of dollies? I have to make me a couple of those!

HillbillyDlux said:

Lopiliberty did you make the rolling racks yourself out of dollies? I have to make me a couple of those!

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No it came from plow and hearth and it wasn't cheap. Found the exact same thing at lowes for $40 three weeks later . Only one is rolling

Oslo is pumping it out tonight. Fired it up a few hours ago and already nice and toasty.

its a good feeling isnt it .Jotul makes some nice stuff.

So did the rest of you folks experience the sub zero temps last week as well? I mean other than yesterday and today which was absolutely balmy, it's been pretty darn cold since New Years Eve . . . honestly, from what I am seeing the temps coming in for us in the next day or two are about what they were before if not a bit "warmer."

This is my first year with a wood stove and let me tell u I couldn't be happier. Right now it's -24 out and it's 77 deg in here. Once I got started I knew it was going to take over me. It's never been this warm in my house ever when I heated with propene. I will never go back the little 13nc is just pounding heat all over my 1800sq/ft open ranch. And the miss is happy as well. I haven't heard hon I'm cold yet and probably won't. And this site has gave me every bit of info to get me where I am now.

-24? Is that with wind chill?

Yes sorry that is wind chill it hasn't been this cold ever in my 33 years on earth and I think it is a new record low for here as well. Said it can get to -35/-40 tonight and tomarrow wind chill. Right now it's -2 without wind chill and the low is -9 with out a wind chill

kinda chilly here also!

5f and -19 with the breeze at 30mph!

I was looking at Alaska forecast today and it was 32deg there haha got them beat how often is that. I was worried as wood heat is my only heat and was afraid the stove wouldn't keep up but she's humming right along keeping us warm. My sons are running around in their undies and it's that cold out. Priceless.

-24 is the air temperature. Wind chill is supposed to be around -50. Burning some old oak and it's nice and toasty in the house

10˚ outside and the Century Insert is going along nicely and it's a comfortable 70 here in the Den. Heat Pump kicked out at 25˚ earlier today by the Honeywell dual fuel thermostat and the outside sensor and the Oil Furnace is churning along.

This is definitely the coldest I've seen it here in a real long time. We were without power last night but it was still nice and toasty in the house thanks to Chester. It's -11 right now with a wind chill of -26 and it's nice and warm in here. Warming up by the fire after having to scoop a 7 foot tall drift from the front of my machine shed and thaw out the pipes to my barn hydrants. Cows were thirsty and they had no water. I had beard-sickles when I came in.

Had a lot of help from this forum getting a wood stove into our 1920's stone house this fall (read minimal insulation). Running an old-school Kent-Tile stove, and the house is the coldest it's been all day... at 70. Outside thermometer is saying -2.

Checking in at -2°F here also

It's -14 here in NE Ohio with a windchill of -34. The house is sitting around 76° thanks to a Lopi Endeavor.

I managed to average 70 degrees overnight doing a reload at 2 am. I used the old Franklin for supplemental. I think my house is slightly large for the Quadra Fire in these temps, but it does the job! -2 here too.

-4 here, but only getting down to 9 tonight. Supposed to begin warming overnight and be up to 49 by Saturday.
Woke up just before the blower turned off and it wasn't 5 minutes before the furnace kicked on set at 69.
Back up to 72 in here now.
I cringe when I think about the heating bills folks will have after this cold snap...and I get the feeling it's not over.