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Deromax said:
I'm at about 12 bags burned. Anything above 15F outside will make the stove to over heat the house. Those having a ton burned at this time must live in a mansion or forgotten some door or window open somewhere! :)
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Wow, I need your insulation....

I live in a 2500 square foot 2 story century farmhouse thats been redone with foamed in insulation but I'm heating the entire house and basement and out here in nowheresville, it's flat (farm country) and when the wind blows (constantly) it's cold. I should probably invest in a windmill......

I can easily blow through 1000 gallons of propane just heating the shop..... at least thats a write off, business expense.
 
Deromax my doors and windows are securely closed but I in Val-d'Or Abitibi I have about 85 bags to burn
 
Deromax said:
I'm at about 12 bags burned. Anything above 15F outside will make the stove to over heat the house. Those having a ton burned at this time must live in a mansion or forgotten some door or window open somewhere! :)
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Nice. All I can say is you must live in a big green egg. I lived in this house before getting married and was using oil. I brought my then-girlfriend (now wife) over once to eat lunch and to this day she laughs that she could see her breath that day inside the house. At that time, I was a starving student and the numbers on the cash register meant more to me than the numbers on the thermometer. So it was nothing for the house to be in the 40's in the middle of the day. Back then, I probably would be at about 12 bags by now. If I tried that now, I might lose that nice lady who didn't mind that I couldn't afford to turn up the heat for her.
 
Deromax said:
I'm at about 12 bags burned. Anything above 15F outside will make the stove to over heat the house. Those having a ton burned at this time must live in a mansion or forgotten some door or window open somewhere! :)
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LOL...Canadian homes buddy
SidecarFlip said:
House must be insulated like a vault????;lol;lol
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Built early 90s, it is known as an R2000 home, an HRV for fresh air is a must. Heat loss is at an extreme minimum.
 
Havilcek stole the ball said:
Nice. All I can say is you must live in a big green egg. I lived in this house before getting married and was using oil. I brought my then-girlfriend (now wife) over once to eat lunch and to this day she laughs that she could see her breath that day inside the house. At that time, I was a starving student and the numbers on the cash register meant more to me than the numbers on the thermometer. So it was nothing for the house to be in the 40's in the middle of the day. Back then, I probably would be at about 12 bags by now. If I tried that now, I might lose that nice lady who didn't mind that I couldn't afford to turn up the heat for her.
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Sounds like a 'fairy tale' marriage to me. I like it. Great thing about a spouse is the cuddle factor on a cold winter's night. Been married 32 years myself and I still look forward to cuddling......

When my wife and I first gpt together we didn't have a pot to pee in and we lived in a run down house in Ohio that I heated with a woodstove. The living romm was warm and the water froze in the bathroom...all memories now.

Have a great hoilday btw.......
 
canuck_22 said:
LOL...Canadian homes buddy


Built early 90s, it is known as an R2000 home, an HRV for fresh air is a must. Heat loss is at an extreme minimum.
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Sounds like a house not to have flatus in..... One little puff and the whole place stinks.......;lol

I'm happy, at least the water in the bathroom don't freeze anymore.
 
Some explanations, but I think I'm repeating myself hehe! I live in a small white pine lumber house. Walls are probably no more than R-12, nothing exceptionnal for Canada climate. Basement have electric baseboard and kept at 64F. First floor about 73F daytime and 70 at night. Heating load when it's above 15F outside is by the heat pump and a small baseboard electric in the bathroom.
 
Deromax said:
Some explanations, but I think I'm repeating myself hehe! I live in a small white pine lumber house. Walls are probably no more than R-12, nothing exceptionnal for Canada climate. Basement have electric baseboard and kept at 64F. First floor about 73F daytime and 70 at night. Heating load when it's above 15F outside is by the heat pump and a small baseboard electric in the bathroom.
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I also imagine that your hydro power is lots cheaper than our domestic nuclear or coal power is...... I could not afford to heat a privy with electric baseboard heat here and/or heat pump. Geothermal yes, but install costs are outta sight and I'm too old to realize any payback.
 
Just ran mine out of fuel, too busy on the laptop to go check. The dog reminded me it was getting cold in here...... It jumped to 'Error 3' but I managed to save it, just enough hot embers in the pot to bring it back to life......

Burn on.........
 
This is taxland here, but we have a break on utility, at about 7 cents/kwh. 99% of the production is from hydro too.

I run a pellet stove because I feel like it, but I don't kid myself. This IS more expensive than electric, here.
 
Deromax said:
This is taxland here, but we have a break on utility, at about 7 cents/kwh. 99% of the production is from hydro too.

I run a pellet stove because I feel like it, but I don't kid myself. This IS more expensive than electric, here.
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If I had geothermal, that would be cheaper hands down, but the install cost is high. I could utilize my pond, something my cousin does in Illinois. His winter heat and summer ac bills run about 50 bucks a month all year. I don't. I have propane so biofuel is always cheaper. Our local electric utility just proposed another rate increase...you always pay more, for less it seems.

Pretty moderate here again, actually it's raining and mid 30's so the stove is throttling up and down, mostly down.
 
Deromax said:
This is taxland here, but we have a break on utility, at about 7 cents/kwh. 99% of the production is from hydro too.

I run a pellet stove because I feel like it, but I don't kid myself. This IS more expensive than electric, here.
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Hasn't been that low here for over a decade.
 
We keep the thermostats at 67 which makes for 70's right around stove and 60's at opposite exterior walls. Our heating season starts in Sept and we are 1 bag away from breaking into our third ton of the season. I use about a ton a month (in winter). Much better than before we added insulation. I was using one ton every 13 days. We now have about 70% of the insulation done and it pays to do it. I actually get excited spending $38 on a 4x8 sheet! So much better and getting better with each piece I add.
 
We are back to wide open most of the time now. Been hanging right about 18 degrees. Need to clean it really but I'm a sick dog (went hunting. came back with the flu and no meat). Wife is sick too. Great New Year.
 
SidecarFlip said:
We are back to wide open most of the time now. Been hanging right about 18 degrees. Need to clean it really but I'm a sick dog (went hunting. came back with the flu and no meat). Wife is sick too. Great New Year.
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It has not started yet:) Will set up a trap tonight for fresh rabbit tomorrow.
Last trip to Doctor for mother today. Great way to end the year
Off to deliver several boxes of goods to Women's Shelter.
December was very easy on fuel supply but sure took a turn last couple days.
 
Deromax said:
Some explanations, but I think I'm repeating myself hehe! I live in a small white pine lumber house. Walls are probably no more than R-12, nothing exceptionnal for Canada climate. Basement have electric baseboard and kept at 64F. First floor about 73F daytime and 70 at night. Heating load when it's above 15F outside is by the heat pump and a small baseboard electric in the bathroom.
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ok.. so you do run some suplement heat...
that would help explain like 4 bags per month..lol
 
i started burning early this year. sept. 20th iirc.
just under 2 tons burned. there have been a few below zero cold spells. but overall it's been pretty mild so far.

zero drops of oil burned. pellet stove is sole source of heat.
 
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Just passed the 1 ton mark a couple of days ago.
 
So far 78 bags, last year at this time I was at 89. Also, only had to pay the plow guy once so far, last year he'd been in 4 times ........... Man, I'm gonna be rich at this rate ................
 
This has been a snowless December for us, first time in 82 years no snow (measureable) has fallen in Michigan in December... Don't know where it's 'measured' at but I drove through a couple inches on the ground coming home from up north????? Cold and windy though, but it is almost January....

January and February really suck around here for cold weather. Time to peruse seed catalog 'porn' and order stuff for spring planting....

Didn't get my greenhouse built like I want to but I will next year. I want to buildf a large greenhouse to start my own plants, have herbs all year long and have a warm, summy place to sit and read. It may incorporate a small pellet stove for auxillary heat. Haven't decided on that quite yet.

Wife is pretty geeked about having a greenhouse / library to read in and grow stuff in the winter. We like fresh vegetables all year.
 
Bioburner said:
It has not started yet:) Will set up a trap tonight for fresh rabbit tomorrow.
Last trip to Doctor for mother today. Great way to end the year
Off to deliver several boxes of goods to Women's Shelter.
December was very easy on fuel supply but sure took a turn last couple days.
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I'm driving up for fresh rabbit....... I love rabbit. We don't have any, the song dogs get 'em. We do have squirrel though and squirrel stew (crockpot squirrel) is almost as good. Problem is, it takes a pretty big clutch to make a crock pot full with a bag limit of 6 per it's a team hunt.

I got the wife one of those 'electronic' pressure cookers for Christmas that I'm going to have a squirrel 'maiden' run with....lol

Glad mother is doing well btw, Amy is sick like me but toughing it out... Nyquil is great stuff...uch.
 
SidecarFlip said:
This has been a snowless December for us, first time in 82 years no snow (measureable) has fallen in Michigan in December... Don't know where it's 'measured' at but I drove through a couple inches on the ground coming home from up north????? Cold and windy though, but it is almost January....

January and February really suck around here for cold weather. Time to peruse seed catalog 'porn' and order stuff for spring planting....

Didn't get my greenhouse built like I want to but I will next year. I want to buildf a large greenhouse to start my own plants, have herbs all year long and have a warm, summy place to sit and read. It may incorporate a small pellet stove for auxillary heat. Haven't decided on that quite yet.

Wife is pretty geeked about having a greenhouse / library to read in and grow stuff in the winter. We like fresh vegetables all year.
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They're usually the two coldest here too, Flip ..........Only snowstorms we had here so far were the Halloween one, that didn't get plowed 'cuz by the time I cut out out all the down trees the snow all melted, and the Thanksgiving one that I wish he hadn't plowed 'cuz it was like plowin' up a field 'cuz the ground weren't froze, and it melted the next day, anyway .............I build a new greenhouse every spring, never seems to last thru the summer, a few of the herbs will winter over, just finished getting out the last carrots and turnips last week ...
 
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