size of home and average temp of house

I have a modular rancher with 2100 sqft total basement and first floor. I had no heat in the basement when we moved in and i hate electric heat (that's my aux) so i put the stove in the corner in the basement as you come down the steps. My basement is also split by block wall with half being garage, so i can shut that door to push more air upstairs but then the bedrooms over the garage get cold quicker so i have been leaving the garage door open to heat the underside of that half of the house. In short if i leave the garage door shut i can have upstairs up to 75 easy on 35 deg day. But if i leave my garage door open the whole house stays a general 70-72 and seems to retain the heat longer. I've also stopped using my blower and that seems to help retain the heat after the fire is out.

My place is a little under 2000 ft2. We have the pellet boiler set to: Upstairs: 66 day/60 night; Downstairs: 68 day/60 night. It doesn't come on that much and when it does it's for the upstairs and hot water. The wood insert is keeping thing warm, especially downstairs, when it's running, which is most of the time. Here is a chart from my thermostat:

Around 2400ft home. That's 1200 basement and 1200 living area.

BK princess in the basement burning Western Red Larch (Tamarack)

Currently -15F outside. 69F in. Temps are taken from the hallway between the bedrooms and the kitchen / dinner. Outdoor temps are taken from the weather network web page.

We have about 1400 finished above, 1400 finished below. 2 bedrooms below, 1 master up. The basement stays at 75, the upstairs 67-ish. I generally run my stove heat setting 2 (out of 5). As of late it's been fairly cold. This morning was −15deg. Temps were like 72/65 in the house when I got up.

1400 sq ft. 70's ranch, poor windows so so doors
14 Degrees outside with around 0 wind chill Degrees F
71 every where except living room where it's 73. 100% Corn/Pellet Heat!

1500 sq. ft. Story and a half, built in 1923. Drafty and poorly insulated. Original single pane windows. The new Drolet Baltic (3.1 cubic foot box) can keep it pretty much wherever we want it. Current outside temp is -1* F, and it's about 72, in here. About to load the stove, for one more short burn, about 3-4 hours, before loading her up, for the night.

EDIT - Stove is loaded, and burning. Life is good.

1000 sq ft on a small cape, but heat the 1000 sq foot cellar also, totals about 2800 heated. PB105 heats the first floor to 71, cellar to 76. 2 of the upstairs bedrooms are closed off but are at about 60, while the bath up and master bedroom is at 65. Temperatures don't vary as the boiler keeps all very steady. I can burn up to 4 bags a day in a north wind of 25 mph and -20 degrees.

I have a three story, 125 year-old farmhouse with a large converted garage attached. Around 2300 square feet total. I didn't think we'd be able to heat it well with the layout but it seems pretty good. We have a Hudson River Kinderhook in the addition and a Bosca spirit in the living room. It hasn't gotten really cold yet but most of the time we just run the kinderhook on #1-2 most of the time. That keeps the main part of the house 68-70 and the addition (which is our family room) at 72-74. The upstairs bedrooms are 62-64 with the doors closed and the third floor (office/study) we keep closed up unless we are up there. In the morning we usually turn the bosca on for a few hours. I have been turning it off when we go out for the day.

About my only complaint is the the bathroom on the 2nd floor is generally 65 or so. There isn't really any easy way to get it warmer without really cranking the bosca up and making the living room a veritable hell. Or putting in an electric heater I guess. When we redo it I'm most definitely putting in heated floors of some kind.

2140 sq ft, (not including unfinished poured concrete 10" wall basement)open floor plan cape chalet with vaulted ceiling over dining/living room. Open to kitchen.
2 bedrooms at end of hall bathroom in middle. Master b/r and bath upstairs with French doors overlooking living room/dining.
1340 sq ft down and 800 sq ft mb up. Modular built in 2008, very well insulated.
Original heat is lp fired condensate boiler baseboard, also heats the hot water.
We set our p43 in the corner of our living room angled towards the kitchen/dining area.
We run on room temp/auto. set at 75* or #5. It's 24 outside reported from my backyard weather station, and it's 74 in the living/dining/kitchen, and hallway, 73 in the two back bedrooms, and 67 in the mbr upstairs. We do close the mbr doors at night to keep it cooler for sleeping.
We are looking for a used stove for the basement as wifey does her wood working down there and it doesn't get much above 45 down there in the dead of winter.

1950 sq.ft mid-century modern, built in '55. Remodeled open concept, half of house 1 large space with 13'floor to ceiling chimney in middle, Virginia marble on one side, white washed brick on the other. Inserts on both sides. Keep at 72d. Bedrooms don't get much benefit from stoves.

2500 sqf ranch that also has a 3/4 finished basement with a fireplace and electric baseboard. Main heat is zoned baseboard hot water oil. Harman Accentra Insert is in one end of main floor living room with a stone wall that abuts the garage. I suck combustipn air from there. Large U-shaped living / dining / kitchen open area heated by the stove. We keep it at 69f as we like it cool. Use room temp. Once I got the room sensor placed properly temp control was perfect. We don't really push it or even try to get the heat into the bedrooms. We don't want fans all over the hall. Averege about a bag a day ovet the season and allow the stove and blower to modulate, even to the point of shutting down. That's what we bought it for. We have a complete window wall in the living room that faces South. On a clear sunny day the heat will kill off the stove. Saves pellets. I barely touch the thing of late except to load pellets and clean every three weeks or so. Kinda takes the fun out of it but I guess running in the background is the main goal for any appliance. Humidifier near stove set to 50%.

BSH1F said:

I have a modular rancher with 2100 sqft total basement and first floor. I had no heat in the basement when we moved in and i hate electric heat (that's my aux) so i put the stove in the corner in the basement as you come down the steps. My basement is also split by block wall with half being garage, so i can shut that door to push more air upstairs but then the bedrooms over the garage get cold quicker so i have been leaving the garage door open to heat the underside of that half of the house. In short if i leave the garage door shut i can have upstairs up to 75 easy on 35 deg day. But if i leave my garage door open the whole house stays a general 70-72 and seems to retain the heat longer. I've also stopped using my blower and that seems to help retain the heat after the fire is out.

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I'm hoping next year to get a new garage door and tighten up the rest of the garage so that I can leave the door open and get the heat to the floors of the bedrooms above. It would be interesting to see if the Harman heat would do better at getting to the whole house so the St. Croix just becomes a shoulder season stove (or when I want to watch the flame). Regardless, it would be awesome not to have to run the propane heat a couple times a day when it is <20 degrees to make sure the FHW pipes that run thru the garage to the bedrooms don't freeze.

joed2323 said:

Curious guys on what size house you all are heating and what the average temp is?

I think a lot of it boils down to what type of house setup/layout you all have..

Me im just above 2300 sqft and my house stays nice and warm at above 75-80 and I have ranch style house. I have the stove situated in the middle of my house in the living room and its pretty open in the middle and rooms are to then ends of house...

I've been cycling my furnace fan off and on thru out day and my house stays toasty.

Im just curious what everyone is trying to heat with their stove or stoves?

My backup heat is propane. Would Like to hear what everyone other backup heat is wether its electric heat or coal, etc?

This isnt a post about my stove is better then yours since I prob have the lowest line stove on market, let's just hope I keep her puuring like a kitten...

Cheers you all, stay warm my friends

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1900 sq.Ft. older farmhouse, 2 story (Century home with pegged beams, reinsulated and new windows), any temperature the wife wants any time., just dial up the PPH and crank out the heat. It's only pellets and corn.

funflyer said:

Wow! some of those temps. Just curious, who uses a humidifier? Our home is 1800 sq ft and before I dug out the humidifer we could stand temps up to 75 but now with it running we have to turn the stove down to the lowest setting when house reaches 72 or it is too warm. Bedroom temps usually stay about 6 degrees lower than the main part of the house.

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Mandatory for cuddling at night......

SidecarFlip said:

Mandatory for cuddling at night......

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Couch in front of stove ain't bad either.

925sq feet. pellet stove sole source of heat (oil furnace backup. never used it yet)

stove room 76-80. back bedroom 70-74 daytime. wife likes it cooler for sleep. so we just either turn off the fans or close the door to regulate that. depending on how cold it is outside.

i have a vent to the basement and i'll run a fan in that when it's serious cold outside. like when it's approaching 0f.
during deepest cold i keep the basement at an absolute minimum of 45f. basement is the same footage as the house.

F4jock said:

Couch in front of stove ain't bad either.

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Mine is usually occupied by canines or felines....or both.

joed2323 said:

Curious guys on what size house you all are heating and what the average temp is?

This isnt a post about my stove is better then yours since I prob have the lowest line stove on market, let's just hope I keep her puuring like a kitten...

Cheers you all, stay warm my friends

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Are you polling us? The answer is f(size of house, type of heat) = a*(size of house) + b*(type of heat) +error where a and b are non constant coefficient.

meisen said:

I have a three story, 125 year-old farmhouse with a large converted garage attached. Around 2300 square feet total. I didn't think we'd be able to heat it well with the layout but it seems pretty good. We have a Hudson River Kinderhook in the addition and a Bosca spirit in the living room. It hasn't gotten really cold yet but most of the time we just run the kinderhook on #1-2 most of the time. That keeps the main part of the house 68-70 and the addition (which is our family room) at 72-74. The upstairs bedrooms are 62-64 with the doors closed and the third floor (office/study) we keep closed up unless we are up there. In the morning we usually turn the bosca on for a few hours. I have been turning it off when we go out for the day.

About my only complaint is the the bathroom on the 2nd floor is generally 65 or so. There isn't really any easy way to get it warmer without really cranking the bosca up and making the living room a veritable hell. Or putting in an electric heater I guess. When we redo it I'm most definitely putting in heated floors of some kind.

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Nothing ruins a day quicker than a cold toilet seat......

they do make heated toilet seats.

Aprox 800 sqf, totally open space, save for the bathroom. Vaulted ceiling peaking at 16 ft with bedroom on an open mezzanine. Walls construction is 8 inches white pine lumber, so no more than r-12. Anything above 15F outside will render the pellet stove unuseable as it will dramatically overpower the house needed heat, even at the minimum 1/5 stove setting. I aim for 72F in the house, but would prefere a tad less at night time, moreso since the heat packs very well up there at the mezzanine level despite two ceiling fans!

Bathroom have a small electric baseboard as it's at the opposite corner from the stove below the mezzanine, and nothing is worst than a cold ceramic floor in the morning!

Deromax said:

Aprox 800 sqf, totally open space, save for the bathroom. Vaulted ceiling peaking at 16 ft with bedroom on an open mezzanine. Walls construction is 8 inches white pine lumber, so no more than r-12. Anything above 15F outside will render the pellet stove unuseable as it will dramatically overpower the house needed heat, even at the minimum 1/5 stove setting. I aim for 72F in the house, but would prefere a tad less at night time, moreso since the heat packs very well up there at the mezzanine level despite two ceiling fans!

Bathroom have a small electric baseboard as it's at the opposite corner from the stove below the mezzanine, and nothing is worst than a cold ceramic floor in the morning!

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Number 2 to a cold toilet seat.....lol

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What the hell is that in the corner???? Looks like empty pellet bags???

Thanks for pointing this out. I just got my son to remove them and bring in some new bags. That's his job but he has to be reminded.