johnsopi
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I lit up the furance @8pm house will be 76 in the am. Then we get a lot of solar gain during the afternoon
Day vs Night burning... Shoulder season
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Ernienomoreoil
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I'm burning small fires 24/7 and enjoying the fact that I can rid my property of all the garbage wood, buckthorn, punkola, and bark shavings left from splitting. It needs to go somewhere, why not in the stove!
formula_pilot
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All we need is a small fire at night to keep the place warm overnight. Sunny days warm the house nicely this time of year, but at night the outside temps drop quite a bit. The trick at my place is keep it from cooling too much, as the stove is located on one end the house, takes a long time for the heat to migrate to the other end. A few small splits at night and it sure is nice to go downstairs in the morning to a comfortably warm house.
We have a wood fired furnace in the basement, so we've only had a couple of burns so far. It takes a fair amount of wood to get it up to temperature and kick on the blower, so it seems a lot more effective to use the backup electric baseboard heaters to warm up the house in the mornings.
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we've been in the low 30s at night and the low 50s during the day for the past week or so. When we wake up in the morning, our second floor addition (which is airtight and well insulated) is about 70 and the still-drafty first floor is 58 or 60. All it takes to get it up to 68 or 70 downstairs is cooking breakfast on the stove and 10 or 15 minutes with the three downstairs baseboard heaters flipped on. After that, we're good until the next morning.
I'm guessing that we'll start burning morning and night when we drop into the 20s at night and stay in the 40s during the day, but we'll have to wait and see - it's our first winter in this house!
In Michigan's Upper Peninsula, we've been in the low 30s at night and the low 50s during the day for the past week or so. When we wake up in the morning, our second floor addition (which is airtight and well insulated) is about 70 and the still-drafty first floor is 58 or 60. All it takes to get it up to 68 or 70 downstairs is cooking breakfast on the stove and 10 or 15 minutes with the three downstairs baseboard heaters flipped on. After that, we're good until the next morning.
I'm guessing that we'll start burning morning and night when we drop into the 20s at night and stay in the 40s during the day, but we'll have to wait and see - it's our first winter in this house!
ckarotka
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FixedGearFlyer said:
It's funny you mention the cooking thing. I notice the same thing. Just by cooking dinner the house warms enough right now that I can do the late night fire. In winter, every time my wife bakes or the oven is used, afterward I crack the door and let the heat escape the oven to the kitchen, recycling the oven heat works great.
Heh - I look forward to this time of year as I avoid baking in the summer due to the heat in the house. Now it is bread on the weekends and plenty of other treats whenever we have time. Sure it is electric heat but it is tasty heat 
Now someday I fully intend to have some sort of wood fired oven - perhaps a masonry heater with an oven in it. Best of both worlds. Of course by then I'll be retired and living somewhere warm.
Now someday I fully intend to have some sort of wood fired oven - perhaps a masonry heater with an oven in it. Best of both worlds. Of course by then I'll be retired and living somewhere warm.
firefighterjake
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HehHeh . . . call me crazy, but like Dennis I light a fire when I'm cold . . . whether it be morning or night during the shoulder season.
That said, typically I light a fire in the evening when my wife and I are home and up and about . . . as temps fall in the evening a nice fire warms the place up and thanks to decent insulation the house stays warm until the next morning . . . and then . . . even though my house is not set up for solar . . . the sun streaming through the open windows in the shoulder season warms the place up enough to not need to light another fire . . . but if it is cold or forecast to remain cold I will light a fire in the morning without second thought . . . I bought a woodstove to stay warm . . .
That said, typically I light a fire in the evening when my wife and I are home and up and about . . . as temps fall in the evening a nice fire warms the place up and thanks to decent insulation the house stays warm until the next morning . . . and then . . . even though my house is not set up for solar . . . the sun streaming through the open windows in the shoulder season warms the place up enough to not need to light another fire . . . but if it is cold or forecast to remain cold I will light a fire in the morning without second thought . . . I bought a woodstove to stay warm . . .
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