Cold enough for you?

Sure makes the wood pile dwindle down faster.....

Diabel said:

I truly feel for the animals living outside in this weather.

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We've got a wild pet peacock who is not liking the cold at all. I put out a heating pad but he was too afraid of it. I spent a few hours plowing the driveway this morning and yup, the wind chill is nasty.
Weather like this is why I sold the old VC and bought the monster Equinox. It's 25 (77) inside right now. Just as warm as the Caribbean. Pass me a pina colada.

-11F outside without the wind, 72F in here on the couch, now if only there was something on tv worth watching...

-15 here the resolute is doing a good job keeping us warm. Burning some white ash and hard maple. Days like today I really appreciate all the hard work involved with wood heat. I'd hate to turn the furnace on lol

It's just dropped down a few degrees to 50 in Scotland today.. Some flowers are still blooming...! What's going on with the weather?!? I am letting the two logs in the stove burn as low and slow as possible this evening... Windy though, so please blow just a few of those icicles over here so I can get that sweet stovey glow when I walk into the house!

It is 10F here on Long Island with honking NW winds bringing WC down to -4 and still dropping. Been running my VC Montpelier insert full bore all day mixing cordwood and Envi 8's to keep the temperature up. I am glad I did a ton of scrounging for free firewood last year as I am ripping through it pretty fast. I must have done my processing right as well as my red oak splits are lighting right up. Last year I had to buy wood and that wood was awful. I am also lucky to have scored a load of maple which is burning beautiful as well.

Thanks to many on this forum who have given great advice.

Tonight is the first night I've had the blaze king sirocco 20 showing some flames! In my little house this is a rarity. Central jersey on the coast and the wind is going thru my old aluminum siding! And yes wood is dwindling much faster then I have ever seen



Stay warm people!

MaintenanceMan said:

Sure makes the wood pile dwindle down faster.....

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Just think if we lived 500 miles north of here. Actually, 70 (F) is cold enough for me.

7f now on the south shore of Massachusetts. 26 mph gusts, -20 wind chill. I'm going to get up at 6am to light the cold insert; other insert has been running since 6 pm, 71f in LR.

Wind chill sucks, no doubt about it.

No it isn't cold enough here yet. I really need a week or so with day time highs at -30dF (no wind thanks) to make meaningful comparisons between last year's wood consumption and this year's wood consumption.

I "know" I am burning less wood with my new stove this year, but I need that sustained wide open throttle consumption rate to make it real.

-27c with wind chill-38c love my stove

Minus-11 here at the moment, and will surely drop another couple degrees by dawn. Yeah, the wood is disappearing fast through the stove-- a mix of black birch, beech and some rock maple seems to give me the best heat. But even with the stove running at 450-550 (max for a soapstone normally), although the area around the stove is a reasonably comfortable 70-something, the room temp drops off fast with distance, and my kitchen is too chilly to hang out in for long and I have to have a little electric heater to keep my office off the far end of the 35-foot stove room tolerable. There just isn't enough heat to go around. (Ironically, the unheated 2nd floor bedroom just over the stove will be more comfortable than when it's warmer outside because running the stove as hard as I am now all day keeps the room just above it comfortable for me anyway, but I like sleeping in the cold)

How much sense does it make to pay out for a stove big enough to cope with temperatures you only get a few days a year most years? Maybe if you're overloaded with discretionary income, but being chilly around the edges three or four days a winter isn't too big of a burden really-- or so I keep telling myself.

-15 with windchill here. Encore still heating the whole house but it is days like this the upstairs won't get above 65-66.

Still refuse to turn on the electric baseboard heating.

Poindexter said:

my new stove.

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What kind? Spent your sig pontificating instead o' specifying...

gyrfalcon said:

How much sense does it make to pay out for a stove big enough to cope with temperatures you only get a few days a year most years?

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Have you tried a fan blowing on the stove? I haven't tried it on a soapstone, but I regret not putting the blower back on the Dutchwest in time to deal with this cold snap; That thing pulls heat off the stove like crazy!

The wind was gusting at 35 mph all thru the night finally died down towards 5:00 am I live 500 yards from the banks of the Susquehanna river, my stove is located in the 240 year old stove wall basement,all I can say is it keeps my oil furnace from cycling on at a longer period of time,looking at putting the stove on the first floor next year

5 degrees here in pa. Putting the timberwolf through her paces. House is chilly other than the room the stove is in just throwing on more layers haha I refuse to burn oil until I have too!

-9F here outside of Boston this morning. Running at 525F right now. Very happy!

Cburke said:

5 degrees here in pa. Putting the timberwolf through her paces. House is chilly other than the room the stove is in just throwing on more layers haha I refuse to burn oil until I have too!

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Us too! We bought sweaters instead of oil. Last oil was April 2013.

We have -23F here with plenty of wind brings it to -40F, both stoves going, coldest room in the house is 68.

I know it's not as cold as some but here in the SC mountains it's cold enough