How cold does it get before you "fire-up?"

whenever inside temps fall below 70. Wife has health problems so a cold house doesn't happen.

If I hear the furnace come on it means it's cold enough to light the stove!

Craig

Anytime the calender reads October to March.

wife and kids are so spoiled and used to a warm house that I will get complaints of it being cold if its 68 or below. one benefit, since they now like it warmer our central ac used to be set at 70, its now set at 73 and no complaints.

50 or below outside.

You mean you're not supposed to keep it fired up all the time??? LOL.......

Wood stove (main level) ... 50 or below outside.
Pellet stove (finished basement) ... 32 or below outside, or if someone is down there.

Generally 65-67 inside is when I'll get a fire going. Of course I'll call that off if I know I'm going to be working, spending most of the day outside, or the outside temp is rising to the point I won't need a fire.

I have been caught on a few mornings where I look outside and shiver at the cloudy/rainy day, go outside to get some wood for a fire and am greeted by a warm, humid tropical blast of air. Looking at the weather to find a warm front went through during the night and the house is 63F inside and 74F outside.

When the daytime temperatures are 40 or below, I burn 24/7. If the days are warm but the nights are cold, I only burn at night (a few days in November and March).

-- Mike

When inside temp hits 70.

ROFL and we used to set our thermostat to 67!

Put me in with the 70 crowd

babalu87 said:

ROFL and we used to set our thermostat to 67!

Put me in with the 70 crowd

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yeh i have neighbors who look at us like we have 2 heads when we complain its cold in the house and its 68. one of my buddies sets his heat at 63 during the day and 58 at night.

Hi, when daytime temps run below 45* I will light the stove. If it is 45*, raining and foggy I don't even bother, it just smolders. I burn 24/7 so I like it to stay on the colder side. The fire seems to burn much better when it is colder. I don't know how you guys on the Left Coast do it with all the rain.

Jim

"I don’t know how you guys on the Left Coast do it with all the rain."

Our softwood must burn better or our chimneys are better. Rainy, 50, foggy, and windless, no problem getting a ripping fire going.

I have an old leaky house so if the outside temp is below 70 then I know that the inside will soon be below 70. Our inside temps then range from 77 to 61 as the fire starts and stops making heat.