Gonna be a cold one tonight!

Not to ask a stupid question , but what are your stove temps on a reload when it's this cold? I got in the habit of burning coals down to close to nothing before I reloaded

Osagebndr said:

Not to ask a stupid question , but what are your stove temps on a reload when it's this cold? I got in the habit of burning coals down to close to nothing before I reloaded

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Around 325-375 (registers as 300 with the blower on). I would normally let it get down closer to 250-275, but I need to keep it hot right now to keep the house warm enough. Letting the coals burn down is not currently an option for me.

Me either really. Had it over 800* one nite and climbing so had to change my habits a little.

It's 2F here right now. Supposed to be -6F by dawn and -30F with wind chill overnight. Right now wind chill is at -18F. Down to my last two days of dry wood for this year. Time to change over to pallets and maybe call a guy in the area who is selling kiln dried for $275/cord.

I've been trying to reload when stove temps are around 250F or so, but sometimes it's been 400F when I'm reloading.

We've gotten off easy this winter, with only 3" of snow so far. That changes tonight and tomorrow, probably 6-8" here. Cold, light snow, so shouldn't be too bad. Then we're looking at several nights in the low single digits. Got a bunch of wood by the stove, plenty more lined up outside the door.

Already 0 here...

It was so cold and windy earlier it was like March of the penguins.
The little Regency seems to be keeping up OK.
Burning a mix of hard wood and pallets, definitely reloading frequently.

Yeah I here ya, they say tomorrow will be minus 20 below with the wind chill, I;m leaving the faucets dripping tonight and stocking the stove . I have about a 1/2 cord left some of it is only 4 months cured of maple I tested it and its around 19% so I'll burn it.I'll mix it in and hope for the best. 1st year burning with a wood stove insert Napoleon 1402 I have already saved 1500 dollars this year alone. Right now at 9 pm its 12 degrees outside and 73 inside due to the insert.

Osagebndr said:

Gonna be 10* here tonite. My 2 yr old oak is finally under where it needs to be or we'd be burning elm cherry and soft maple. Got a cord of it all left. I work outside year round so 67* house when I get home feels great but no one else seems to think so . Go figure

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Tellem to go outside for ten minutes, then come back inside. Bet 67 feels real good now!

-8 tonight in Western Mass. My son was shoveling snow this morning bless his heart and as he tried to toss it on the snow banks higher than his head it all blew back all over him. The stove needs a little help from the furnace on nights like this. I can't imagine what it must be like around Boston. I think they have gotten two or three feet of snow more than we have.

Diabel said:

I feel for the folks who rely on wood heat 100%.
In this weather wood stoves are simply just space heaters.

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Not for us! We are heating 2300+ square feet with two stoves. It is currently -8 outside with a windchill of -35. Our inside temps range from 70 in the bedrooms (furthest away from the stoves) to 85 in the stove rooms. Nice and cozy here with no oil or propane bills all winter!

TomatoLover said:

Diabel said:
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I feel for the folks who rely on wood heat 100%.
In this weather wood stoves are simply just space heaters

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Wood stoves are space heaters no matter what the temp is. Ive been reloading at 300 and load 4 times a day in this weather. Currently -7 and the whole week is supposed to be between 5 to -10 every night so Ill be doing that all week,

The wood stove has been heating my entire space - including bleeding over into the attached garages and keeping them at 40 down to -22 so far. It's warmer than I would keep it with the propane.

Here in southern maryland it's unusually cold. Currently 58* in the room where the Progress Hybrid is showing a surface temp of 500. Spouse ain't happy.

Woke up to -6 out and 60 in. Time to get to work.

-15 here now.

begreen said:

Open up the air a notch and take it up to 600F.

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Yeah, I'm there. We are now roasting at 64.

About 2300 sq ft. Old and drafty. Someone suggest an OAK to help with the "drafty" part. I might, but can't think of an easy way to route it through a fireplace on an interior chimney.

Is there a block off plate installed in the fireplace around the liner? If not, do that first, and you may see a huge difference.

Hogwildz said:

Is there a block off plate installed in the fireplace around the liner? If not, do that first, and you may see a huge difference.

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Yep. Plate's there.

Do you have enough room up the old flue to run an OAK?
The way todays stoves are, they don't take a ton of air for combustion, not sure how much difference an OAK would make.
I agree with BG, the best bang for your buck and biggest improvement may very well be caulking & sealing air leaks.

begreen said:

Folks in eastern Mass are not singing that same tune.

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Here is a picture of my "eastern Mass" wood stacks. The stacks are 48" high and so is the snow!