Pellet Consumption this week..

Consumption has stayed the same still burning on heat 1 but instead of being upper 70's to low 80's in the house its been mid to low 70's. Still plenty warm though.

Just checked yesterday and am burning 1 bag every 6 1/2 hours! That's nearly 4 bags a day. 78 in the cellar, 71 on the main floor and 65 upstairs. 3000 sq. feet in all. Temps outside now hovered around 11 all day.

pf100 heating 3300sq.ft.ranch style eating 3.5 to 4 bags per day with no other heat, it has been 3 below over night and highs in the teens and very windy. Keeping house in the low 70's

About 2 bags a day. Except that night it got to -18, and the other at -6. However, my upstairs keeps warm fairly nicely with sun, and we actually saw sun for a couple of days (saw snow on those same days too). Plus, the Harman hardly has to work to keep the downstairs warm. The Hastings is going thru about 1.5 bags/day. Even when I had the Harman blasting on stove temp and at setting 7 today because of issues with the Hastings, it didn't eat that much. Of course it was sunny and 17 degrees, so not too bad. Small house doesn't hurt either.

2.25 average. The high was 2.5 bags, the low 2 so far.

chken said:

essentially the smallest stoves could have handled the coldest days of the year.

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I really appreciate that you put this in perspective for folks. I have an ancient 34000 BTU stove, and it's keeping our house warmer, for far less money, than we ever used to manage with electric heat. I so wish i had bought my old stove when it was new, the same year we moved into this house - 1996.

Edit: we've used a little under 2 bags a day this week. Nice and toasty in the house.

Maybe up half a bag a day. Still only running at medium to level 4. Did runthe furnace a bit to warm the basement

chken said: ↑ said:

essentially the smallest stoves could have handled the coldest days of the year.

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bcarton said:

I really appreciate that you put this in perspective for folks. I have an ancient 34000 BTU stove, and it's keeping our house warmer, for far less money, than we ever used to manage with electric heat.

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I like the way Mike at ESW put it when asked why Englander doesn't have higher BTU input stoves. He said basically that "you wouldn't want to feed it".

Using just a hair over 2 bags a day for 3000sq. ft.. Half of my house is super insulated,(r-32 in double walls, all new low-e windows, 1st floor ceilings r-36, roof r-60.) I have yet to run my little 25PDVC over 4. Right now outside temp is 5* and I just bumped it up to 3. Inside temp is 74. My other half of the house still has single pane windows and r-13 insulation, none in the ceiling and r-32 in the roof. My 25EP is doing well at setting 7 and 73* right now, but struggled at -12 to keep at 68* running 9-9. Insulation is all the difference.

You cannot lump the mixed fuel burners into that equation because we aren't running straight pellets so the amount is different, actually less with a corn/pellet mix than straight pellets...... just say'in.

Electric (resistance) heat sounds scary expensive in any region.

That's why I stated in pounds. Only five more days to hopefully a January thaw.

The MVAE has consumed 2 bags a day for most days but there have been a couple of three bag days.
PDVC has been idle. No time in the workshop.

Just under 2 bags per day mark here.

Between 4 and 5 bags a day through the PF120 keeping 3,000sq ft on 3 floors at 73.

In the shop I've used between 2 and 2.5 bags a day in the P68 keeping a 1,200sq ft shop at 68.

Ever since we got this thing my wife has discovered HEAT, and we have been on nearly 2 bags a day since the beginning but more like 2.5/ day now in the cold. Oh how I long for the old days when we made heat in other ways My heating cost since the pellet stove, has went up $200 / month in mild weather and I think will be down $200 / month in real cold weather and be more costly overall for sure but the house is toasty instead of cold all the time. Wife and daughter say it is a bargain.... Works out good cause our evening room is very warm 77-80 and our bedrooms stay cool for sleeping just like with the electric.

10 bags in the last 8 days plus a few gallons of Propane.
Ron

About 3 bags/day across two stoves, heating just under 3000sf. Both of us work here as well so that's 70 all day, but backs off to about 66 at night. 8 outside and only made it to about 16 today.

About a bag and half House heat kicks on occasionally to heat the bedrooms. Still learning how this work and to get the air flow.

jss227 said:

Using just a hair over 2 bags a day for 3000sq. ft.. Half of my house is super insulated,(r-32 in double walls, all new low-e windows, 1st floor ceilings r-36, roof r-60.) I have yet to run my little 25PDVC over 4. Right now outside temp is 5* and I just bumped it up to 3. Inside temp is 74. My other half of the house still has single pane windows and r-13 insulation, none in the ceiling and r-32 in the roof. My 25EP is doing well at setting 7 and 73* right now, but struggled at -12 to keep at 68* running 9-9. Insulation is all the difference.

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Yes and the fact that you are running two stoves pays off too !.

Harvey Schneider said:

The MVAE has consumed 2 bags a day for most days but there have been a couple of three bag days.
PDVC has been idle. No time in the workshop.

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I believe I'd have had a 3 bagger the day I let the oil take over rather than kick up the stove. That worked, I might have burned a gallon of oil that morning ( oil right now here is $2.31 a gal)..

Bioburner said:

Sometimes though the heat has to have enough difference to move and warm the whole area. Just because the stove can keep an area at 68 does not mean it can move it effectively enough to warm the whole area. I need 2 to 5 degrees difference to get things moving and a fan that can circulate about 175cfm to 200 in this cold weather. The Harman with a fan that's trying to get 135 cfm has a hard time.

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1 bag of Okies Golds every 28 hours keeping my old cape warm downstairs

Im right at 2 bags a day. Its been -10 the last few nights and mid teens during the day. House is right around 72

alternativeheat said:

I believe I'd have had a 3 bagger the day I let the oil take over rather than kick up the stove. That worked, I might have burned a gallon of oil that morning ( oil right now here is $2.31 a gal)..

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A bag at 8200 BTU/lb is 328,000 BTU. A gallon of oil is 140,000 BTU. A bag is equal to 2.34 Gallons. The oil is still about the same cost as pellets. I have neglected efficiency.

There are other reasons for burning pellets. The biggest being, I would rather use a renewable resource than burn a fossil fuel that we have to purchase from people that hate us. Besides, I just like the way it looks.

Harvey Schneider said:

A bag at 8200 BTU/lb is 328,000 BTU. A gallon of oil is 140,000 BTU. A bag is equal to 2.34 Gallons. The oil is still about the same cost as pellets. I have neglected efficiency.

There are other reasons for burning pellets. The biggest being, I would rather use a renewable resource than burn a fossil fuel that we have to purchase from people that hate us. Besides, I just like the way it looks.

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Well said!

Harvey Schneider said:

A bag at 8200 BTU/lb is 328,000 BTU. A gallon of oil is 140,000 BTU. A bag is equal to 2.34 Gallons. The oil is still about the same cost as pellets. I have neglected efficiency.

There are other reasons for burning pellets. The biggest being, I would rather use a renewable resource than burn a fossil fuel that we have to purchase from people that hate us. Besides, I just like the way it looks.

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Agree on looks. So let's approve Keystone and we can burn oil purchased from people who sometimes even like us. BTW, thanks to fracking we're burning lots less middle-Eastern oil. Using all of our energy resources we can be energy independent in short order if we just get politics out of the way.