bungalobob said:
Shield1561 said:
4 bags a day here in my harman p68.
4 bags a day? Yikes! How much area are you heating and what's the average temp around there? I'm about two bags a day with the P68 when the weather is mid-teens or so. Been about a bag and half lately. Roughly 2000 square feet with two floors, keeping 72 downstairs and 68 upstairs. Not using any oil either, but if I was burning four bags, I think it would be cheaper for me to run the furnace. Dang, four bags a day makes me shutter, all that work and not saving any money.
LOL. Yeah. Its pretty sad actually. Its been about the same temp wise here. I have a 4200 Square Foot 3 story victorian built in 1840. Insulation is pretty much minimal. Just bought it so I haven't had much of a chance to work much with it yet. The Prior owners installed the P68 before they had to move for work reasons. All the pellet stove really heats is the first floor, and even at that, doesn't heat very well. Using 4 bags a day I'm getting about 67-68 in the dining room where the stove is, and the living room and kitchen off each side of it stay about 63. The breakfast nook on the other side of the kitchen is usually around 60, and I have a pretty open floor plan. Luckily, the Master suite is on the first floor and its just me here for now, so its not too too bad, but in all reality, I'm thinking it would be better just to burn the oil. On fuel oil keeping the house at 65 it takes about 10 gallons a day, give or take. I figure at 10 gallons a day at 2.29 its costing me a hair under $23/day to heat the house, and the pellets I bought at $250 a ton, so its costing me about $20 a day via the pellet stove. The DHW comes off the boiler, so its running only when needed. At the moment the Oil heat is acting more on the side of a backup system. Depending on how the price of fuel oil goes, that will be the breaker, if it drops to where its cheaper at 10 gallons a day, I'll go ahead and go back to that. Unfortunately, I'm in more of a country setting, and natural gas hasn't made it this way yet, but its supposedly coming, but you know how that goes. Luckily, i'm on a main route in what used to be a small village, so there are a decent number of houses around me that might make it worth NYSEGS money to bring the gas this way, eh, who knows. LOL. One thing I'll never do again, buy a house for its beauty and history vs economy in this day and age, but ya live ya learn I guess.
-Justin
