Gonna be a cold one tonight!

fire_man said:

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

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Good Golly! Hope you have some stacks that are more accessible.

ckitch said:

Figured out something today in this frigid weather I wouldn't have imagined. PINE is the best wood for this weather, if your around all day. I can load full get lots of heat and very little coals and rinse and repeat keeping stove top up without the coals getting out of hand.

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Yup, softwood when it is this cold. Oak for overnight though.

-10 steady during the day here yesterday as low as -15 at night. I cant wait to get the wood stove put in this spring after listing to the propain and electric heaters ticking away as the wind blew all day. Not to much of a change over the next week or so one day in the 20's the rest low low teens and single digits. Not looking forward to seeing what the bills will look like at the end of the month

Oil tank gelled up last night, that was fun. Oil was supposed to be good to -20, it was-25 when I got up. The stove can't keep up when it is like this, so it's critical that the oil burner fires to keep pipes from freezing. More reason to get the gasification boiler project underway.

begreen said:

Sealing up leaks will quickly show benefits and it's cheap to do. Use this cold snap as an opportunity to scope those leaks out. If you have an IR temp gun this is a good way to use it. If not, try and incense stick or just use your hand near doorways, window frames, outlets, etc..

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This x100000

Last year during the "polar vortex" we hit 49 in the stove room running full bore with the bedroom closed off. Right now it's -8 air temp and its 69 in here with the bedroom door open. We did a lot of sealing and laid attic blanket in the fall.

It was -7 last night at my house. Upstate NY were -15, -25. Some test for the stove. That's as cold as I've seen it here. The weather report is for cold all week, with nights near 0. I only have a few days of wood left before I have to dig out a path 50 ft. to the stacks. We have about 2 ft of snow on the ground.

xman23 said:

It was -7 last night at my house. Upstate NY were -15, -25. Some test for the stove. That's as cold as I've seen it here. The weather report is for cold all week, with nights near 0. I only have a few days of wood left before I have to dig out a path 50 ft. to the stacks. We have about 2 ft of snow on the ground.

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I hear ya-we've got the last of the wood we had in the sunroom in the stove and woodbox now. Tomorrow we'll have to head out to the stacks-about 100 ft from the house. We've got ??? feet of snow-there's a drift up to the top of one stack that's 8' high, however looks like 1-2' on the path to another stack. Time to break out the sled (not snowmobile, a flying saucer sled, to tow the wood back on). Kinda wishing we had picked up some ecobricks when we passed the TS earlier tonight.

metalsped said:

I think with the snow two nights ago, Worcester county moved past 100" for the year. Saw a video from the Today show, saying we are the snowiest county in the entire USA right now.

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eclecticcottage said:

This x100000

Last year during the "polar vortex" we hit 49 in the stove room running full bore with the bedroom closed off. Right now it's -8 air temp and its 69 in here with the bedroom door open. We did a lot of sealing and laid attic blanket in the fall.

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We are doing this bit by bit. Foam outlet covers are the bomb. This weather may motivate us to speed up the process. The house got warmer throughout the day as the temp outside went up to a balmy 18* and the wind subsided. Single digits and shingle-ripping winds just overwhelm my humble 18th century farmer's hut.

Air_cooled_driver said:

We are doing this bit by bit. Foam outlet covers are the bomb. This weather may motivate us to speed up the process. The house got warmer throughout the day as the temp outside went up to a balmy 18* and the wind subsided. Single digits and shingle-ripping winds just overwhelm my humble 18th century farmer's hut.

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That's how it was for us last year. This place was built as a summer cottage and man did it show last year! Now I see why renters left mid winter, twice, on the last owner. NYS has a program that offers most home owners a door blower test for free. We took advantage in the fall and the numbers were pretty bad. It helped us find a lot of leaks though. Not done yet, but it helped.