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HotCoals
Minister of Fire
Ya, I just got home after being gone for almost eight hours. The car said 0, but it was still 73 on the wall thermostat. It foelt a little warmer in the bedrooms, but that end of the house is insulated a little better.
I finally got a new thermostat yesterday, and ran my LP furnace for the first time this winter.
I finally got a new thermostat yesterday, and ran my LP furnace for the first time this winter.
LOL. I know, Just got home from a date with the wife. Is roasty in this place. Had to turn off the Pellet stove and not feed the wood stove until is time for bed.HotCoals said:
My house got up to 72 today and I was cooking. I'm not sure how you guys do it with mid 70's and 80's, I'd roast. 66-68 is perfect for me.
fortydegnorth said:
If my house was at 66-68 my wife and kids will revolt. My daughter starts complaining at 73. We are very spoiled New Yorkers.
BrowningBAR
Minister of Fire
fortydegnorth said:
After living with a home in the 50 degree range for two winters, if it ain't north of 75 in the stove rooms I'm not happy.
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
Kat, we get our house in that range quite often! If the wife has too much clothing on, I know it is time to throw another log on the fire.
Milton Findley
Feeling the Heat
fortydegnorth said:
I froze to death once in the Navy, and twice in the Army. I think of an extra 10 or 15 degrees above 72 as insurance against another such occurrence especially when I look outside and see everything covered in that white stuff.
I hear ya Dennis, we have gotten very used to temps in the high 70s in this house and when we go visit friends we just look at eachother and wonder how other people can live in 66-70 degrees.Backwoods Savage said:
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
fortydegnorth said:
And what do you do in the summer months? Do you still keep your house at 66-68? What do you do when outdoors? I usually find that most folks want the temperatures outdoors in the summer months to be well above 80 and many claim they love it above 90. Yet, come winter the claim of below 70 for comfort is what they seek? It just does not make sense to me at all. Well, for sure if I am working I do not want the temperature too high but if I am relaxing in my home I intend to have the air temperature at a comfortable level. Perhaps my comfort level is a bit above others; for sure it is above what my wife prefers but we get along just fine.
I'm trying to figure out how I can run a pipe up to NY to syphon some of the 84 degrees down here to Maryland.
tsquini
Minister of Fire
If it is not over 75 in the house, I'm not really using the stove. BTW, I spend all summer splitting wood I'm going to enjoy it all winter.
Backwoods, I work outside most of the time so I guess I get used to whatever season it is. I own a landscape co and we work outside all year. In the summer, if I run the A/C, it's set at 74. A/C in the summer feels cold to me and heat in the winter feels hot. I guess I should stay in more so I adjust better.
The thermostat on my wood stove is a bit different.
I tend to keep piling wood into it and keep it on high fire until my wife has stripped down to her underwear and socks. This usually happens within a temperature range of 78 to 82.
Once she's running around half naked, I tend to forget about the wood for a while and am focused on other matters.
As the house cools down towards 77 degrees, the first thing she usually puts on is her shirt. At this point, I start piling the wood back into the stove.
And the cycle repeats.
I tend to keep piling wood into it and keep it on high fire until my wife has stripped down to her underwear and socks. This usually happens within a temperature range of 78 to 82.
Once she's running around half naked, I tend to forget about the wood for a while and am focused on other matters.
As the house cools down towards 77 degrees, the first thing she usually puts on is her shirt. At this point, I start piling the wood back into the stove.
And the cycle repeats.
Murphy2000 said:
Ugh. Too sweaty.
But when it's under 68, she's twice as willing to get under the covers.
LOL.. well, my wife and kids just drove down this morning to Pikesville, right outside the 695 Beltway. I could have sent you some. %-Pmo burns said:
Todd
Minister of Fire
75 is what I shoot for but many times the upstairs gets well above that. It's funny how sometimes it could be 75 but the stove is down to coals and you feel a chill because the stove isn't throwing that radiant heat around.
LLigetfa
Minister of Fire
UGH! Someone, open a window. I hate it when it gets up to 75. The wife starts to complain when it drops to 74. I let it drop to 73 which is just right!HotCoals said:
Here in NY (also Dutchess County) we keep the lower floor of our raised ranch at 73 (day) and 70 while sleeping - with a programmable thermostat on the pelllet stove. I have a curtain at the bottom of the stair well which I close when going to bed. The upstairs (oil) is set at 65 day and night. In the day time we close all bedroom doors upstairs but open them at night.
I only hear the oil furnace (upstairs) start on really cold nights - like the last few - an it only starts once or twice through the night usually at 5 ot 6 AM. So the single pellet stove pick up most of the heat load through the entire house. In the day time, with the curtain open and the pellet stove down stairs at 73 the upstairs reaches 70 or 71 by 10 or 11 AM and stays around that until evening - when we close the curtain and hit the hay.
In the past two years we've burned about 2.5 tons of pellets and ~300 gallons of oil and that includes hot water! This is great as in our pre-pellet life we burned 900+ gallons oil each year.
Love it! My current heating costs are similar to what they were in 2004 - when oil was $1.69. Last oil fill I had was at $2.73/gal and that was only after shopping around a bit. Unfortunately here in NY pellet pricess seem to track oil. My first ton of pellets were $169 - in 2005. My last ton was $230.
RonB
I only hear the oil furnace (upstairs) start on really cold nights - like the last few - an it only starts once or twice through the night usually at 5 ot 6 AM. So the single pellet stove pick up most of the heat load through the entire house. In the day time, with the curtain open and the pellet stove down stairs at 73 the upstairs reaches 70 or 71 by 10 or 11 AM and stays around that until evening - when we close the curtain and hit the hay.
In the past two years we've burned about 2.5 tons of pellets and ~300 gallons of oil and that includes hot water! This is great as in our pre-pellet life we burned 900+ gallons oil each year.
Love it! My current heating costs are similar to what they were in 2004 - when oil was $1.69. Last oil fill I had was at $2.73/gal and that was only after shopping around a bit. Unfortunately here in NY pellet pricess seem to track oil. My first ton of pellets were $169 - in 2005. My last ton was $230.
RonB
My wife and I used to live in Pikesville. Sometimes I miss it sometimes I don't! Quite a bit of good food down that way.
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