Morning temps

Yep about 64 or so, I am happy with 64 , good sleeping temps.

With an overnight temp of 23 I'll also be right around that 64-65 deg range. This morning with a temp of 6 the house was 58 deg, last load was at about 1am, 58 by 7am. I have a pretty small stove though, but good insulation.

Depends on when I loaded up the stove, when I wake up, wind, etc. . . . but most of the time the temp is around 60-64 degrees F . . . of course I can't say I heat exclusively with wood . . . more like 95% of the time . . . the oil boiler generally only kicks on in the morning on those single digit/sub-zero nights since I have the thermostat set to bring the boiler on line at 60 degrees . . . most mornings I can "beat" the boiler and get the place warmed up before the boiler starts burning dollars.

Last load at 10pm, the main hallway will be 60F. The gas furnace will come on at 55F (perish the thought!!)

Basement where the stove is will be 70. Last night with temps near 0 we woke to 63. If the stove where on the 1st floor I expect things would have been toasty all night.

drastically varies with wind and exterior temperature. On a bad day the heat kicks on (Set to 58F at night, warming to 62F in the morning). If i get up and the house is 62F+ I am happy. it is usually 62-64F.

With the house a comfortable 72-74 before bed I'll still be 66-68 in the morning. Furnace kicks on at 65 just in case. Supposed to be real cold tonight ~0 deg

Last load fully going around 10:30p - we have temps of ~60-64*F @ our furnace thermostat and 65-67 in the living room where the stove is @ 6:00a. If there is light to medium wind, or temps in the single digits, then the furnace usually kicks on around 5:00a or so (set to 58*F). Burning mostly Ash and Sugar Maple.

hemlock said:

To those who heat exclusively with wood, what is the temp of your house in the morning, assuming a roughly -5C (23F) night? I'm at around 18C (64F) come morning, last load at around 10 P.M. Just curious what others find.

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Our last load was put in at 12:00 for the overnight burn with Sugar Maple.

Outside Temp when I called it a night 15.6
Basement temps in the morning 75 / Basement Temp was 82 when I called it a night
First floor Livingroom 68 in the morning
Bedroom - 67 in the morning
Outside Temp 15 degrees


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Wow...my wife would never let us get things as low as some of you...I am envious! Our heat pumps kick on at 65 on the 1st and 2nd floor. Since I am gone this year...I assume they are kicking on more often than I would like, but not as much as if she did not have the one stove running 24/7. When I am home, I have both stoves going and like the above, try to "beat" the heat pumps coming on in the morning. If the outside temp is in the teens, and if we go to bed with the inside temps in the mid-70's on the first floor (a couple degrees less on the 2nd), we will drop 5-10 degrees by morning. Day temps play into it - if they stay low (20's or less), then the pumps usually kick on by morning. If they are around 30 during the day, then I usually can beat the pumps with no problem. I think it has to do with the outer edges of the house (far rooms) getting a little extra solar heat during the day.

I know you asked for those that heat exclusive with wood...but I try my best. My goal is 100% wood heat...you can't blame me if I sleep too much!

Mornin temps are usually around 62ish with an outside temp in the teens. Last load time is usually around 9 or 10pm. I personally like wakin up to a chilly house and gettings things warmed up before i leave for work. Guess that's because growing up my bedroom was above the garage and i could usually see my breath in the morning! Of course my parents never believed me until i moved out.

I would not like it if our house temperature dropped below 70.

I get up and load around 1am I wake up at 5am for work and the main floor(minus the kitchen) is usually 66-68* Upstairs is cooler.

Last full load was about 9:00 last night and the furnace, set at 60, kicked on at about 6AM. It was also -16 at this time. I haven't had a chance to see what it would do on a 23 degree night. I probably won't see those temps. for a while.

If it's not around 68 or higher, I did something wrong...

Wow, I don't feel so bad now.
All you guys waking to lower to mid 60's is what I usually have. I DO NOT like being cold, so I get up early in the morning (4-5 am), to reload so the house is upper 60's when I get up for the day. Especially with these colder temps we've been having.
Here I am thinking everyone but me is getting 12 bazillion hour burn times.
I feel better, but I'd still like to have those 12 bazillion hour burns. :lol:

-24 this morning, coldest so far this Winter. Woke up with two hot rocks and 76 degree temps upstairs and downstairs. Life is good.

eujamfh said:

Wow...my wife would never let us get things as low as some of you...I am envious!

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Well we're young, we just cuddle up together under the covers. The furnace is set to kick on about 1/2 an hour before we wake up so it's not cold when we get out of bed. Plus she grew up with wood as the only heat soarce for thier home so she's acustom to it.

Usually load as late as possible for the overnight -11pm or so. Usually ~ 70-72 when loading, will wake up to ~ 68 at ~ 7am IF 23 for an overnight T. If single digits, wake up to ~ 65 or so. Supposed to be between -8 and -16 over the next few nights - will be the first major challenge for the Mansfield! Cheers!

Temps here don't fluctuate more than a few degrees 24/7... whether I want them to or not. A lot of that has to do with the heat stored in the two-flue interior chimney, the rest of it has to do with I haven't a clue. Just the way things work here, and I'm too pleased to feel a need to change a thing.


My camera EXIF data tells me the photo below was taken at 11:03 AM on Feb.19, at least 10, maybe 12 hours after I last filled the stove. I'm pretty sure that the first load hadn't been going for long, but as I said, it wouldn't make much difference if it had.


Upper left: Warmest place in the house, 3' from the top of the basement stairs where the stove is.
Upper right: Our bedroom, which is only about 6' from the basement door.
Lower left: My office... again, fairly close to the basement door.
Lower right: The upstairs bedroom... nowhere near the basement door, but with the chimney running right behind an interior wall. Even way up there the wall feels warm to the touch.


Down in the kitchen and living room that flank the chimney on both sides, it's not uncommon to see wall temps hovering near 100º when I wake up. Sometimes the stove isn't even the warm in the morning. The warm walls send a lot of gentle heat throughout the living space for many hours.

Notice that all thermostats are turned down to the lowest setting, a temp that they never come close to reaching. Can't afford to let that happen because they control the electric baseboards we're stuck with for backup heat. Power bill that month was less than $70, including electric DHW.

I can run the stove hot all day long and it won't get much hotter than that upstairs, maybe 74º. This year I'm trying to save on wood, so I'm loading less, both in frequency and in amount of wood per reload. Temps only get to 70-72º by nighttime, and drop to about 68º by morning. Then it can sit there for hours without the stove running, and it's all because of my Magic Chimney® (a subsidiary of Pook Enterprises) %-P


Basement temps can get into the 90s at times, but I couldn't get it up to 80º upstairs if it was my full time job to feed white oak kindling to the stove all day long. Sav would be too cold in here, and his ladies would be fully clad, but it's just perfect for us 'cause we's tough. :coolsmile:

A couple nights ago I went to bed with the house at 72 degrees, woke up 8 hours later to -20 degrees outside w/o the windchill and the house was at 69 degrees. BTW: My brother in law had -30 during the night a few miles away so it might have even been colder here during the overnight.

23 degree temps are like springtime around here now. If the house ever gets below 70 degrees in those temps I either fell asleep in the chair before loading the stove and didn't wake up until morning or I am out of wood.

Last night was right around 0*F, loaded at 10 pm and woke up at 65*F in main hallway, if it stays in the 20's I'll usually wake up in the high 60's low 70's. Night burn is easy, it's the 11-12 hours I'm gone during the day that are tough. Friday was in the low teens/upper single digits for the daytime temps, I loaded the stove at 7am, when I returned home at 6pm it was 64 but was down to 62 before the stove caught back up enough to stop the fall.

I was working on my furnace yesterday and forgot to turn it back on. Last night it got down to -4 I threw the last log on the fire at about 11pm woke up at 8am to a very chilly house, it'd gotten down to 52 deg.

5 degrees outside, 83 degrees inside. Really toasty. My neighbor came over to drop off something and she was amazed how warm it was. She is talking to her husband about getting a wood stove. I recommended the Englander NC30