Burning 24 hours 7 days a week, when applicable, and/or heating your house continuously with wood un

What are you talking about? How else would the house stay warm?

NATE379 said:

What are you talking about? How else would the house stay warm?

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Ditto.

Don't know if it's 24/7 but when I come home from work and in the morning I'll have enough coals to restart with kindling. On occasion I do fall asleep at 9pm before the overnight load I'll still have coals at 3am usually the time I feel the house getting down to 60 degrees 64 in the room the stove is in.

24/7/210

Not sure of an exact # of days, but yeah, 24/7 unless the weather warms enough to be able to clean the flue. It's how we heat this place.

At present I can't burn 24/7. I've got quite a few cold blooded pets that I house in the basement and, while they do have supplememtal heating via heat lamps, they need a base temp of sixty. Mid winter, if the NG furnace isn't run for part of each day it drop to 50F down there = sick creatures. I do have an old wood/coal combo that would work great taking the chill off down there but I don't have the funds for a chimney liner at the moment. As it is, I say we burn about 14/7. Maybe next year we'll take the plunge.

24/7, I haven't used a match since I visited family in Ohio over Christmas.

I think most people here either burn 24/7 or want to.. I have always burned 24/7 unless it is too warm to do so.. There are times that unless I wake up after 4 hrs. sleep that the stove can't keep up like last night when it got to 3 below zero.. I got up 7 hrs. later to massive coals and the heat running to keep the house at 63.. If it was that cold here or colder all the time I would have a much bigger stove to achieve 24/7 heat...

Ray

Geez, as long as you have been around here, thought maybe you had that figured out allready. I do in two stoves

Hanko said:

Geez, as long as you have been around here, thought maybe you had that figured out allready. I do in two stoves

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No room for 2 stoves here plus my wife would kill me if I even thought about it lol...

Ray

I don't know if you'd consider me a 24/7 burner, but I start the stove as soon as I wake up, burn it all day through a goo load in before going to bed, and repeat.

I have been burning ours 24/7 since I installed it in early December. I have only had to re-kindle it once. I bank it at about 11pm and when I get up at 7:15 there is plenty of hot coals to reload on. This morning when I got up it was 6* out and surprisingly I still had a flame going in the back of the box. I loaded her up and within five minutes we were up and running.

I do turn the heat on at night. I set it at 60*. However, just using the electric heat as an over-night supplement has really cut my electric usage, but not as much as I would like. Last January I used 5188 kWH and this year I used 2886kWH. The bill was for $434. If I wasn't burning the stove it would have been close to a grand.

RedGuy said:

I don't know if you'd consider me a 24/7 burner, but I start the stove as soon as I wake up, burn it all day through a goo load in before going to bed, and repeat.

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Hi Red,
I'd consider you a 24/7 burner especially if you are starting the stove with the coals from the previous night.. That's pretty much what we do here and rarely need to strike a match once the weather gets cold.. This morning I had way too many coals so I had to stir them for an hour and crank up the air to burn them up this is where a bigger stove would have an advantage.. I can't imagine how hard it would be to heat 24/7 in below zero weather all the time and keep the house 70+ degrees.. Today they predict the temp to stay single digits here and windy too brrrrr... We are not used to this at all here nor do we want to get used to it lol.. Right now my house is 64 degrees downstairs and it is taking forever for it to get warmer with the stove cranking...

Ray

BrowningBAR said:

So far, we are at 30 to 1.

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I feel sooooo ashamed :red:

BrowningBAR said:

I'm surprised no one checked off "Jupiter time", yet.

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It was very tempting.

Winters are very mild here compared to most of y'all. I burn all day for a lot of the winter, but when daytime temps go up over 50 it gets too hot. Part of the winter I'm burning a morning load and an evening load. No overnights unless the power goes out, or we have a below average overnight low. I let the NG furnace handle things overnight, with the t-stat set low. It seldom comes on. I use my share of Super Cedars.

Evening fires every day during the heating season. On mild days, in the morning we will just go with a smaller fire and let it go to coals. 465lbs of iron, plus some sun, keep the house pretty warm on those days- But not today! Full load at night and in the morning and I bet the house will still be getting pretty cool by the time I get home after work. This sub zero ºF weather is getting into the extreme for us here in CT. I Feel sorry for those guys way up north that have to do it with no hardwood.

24/7, but here at the new house the furnace will still kick on about 4 or 5 in the morning when it real cold. I keep it set there since due to some health issues I can't tolerate below 65 - 70 degrees for too long. The new Lopi burns great and carries everything at the temps I need if it's 20 degrees or above. I still kinda miss the Englander 28-3500 we had at the old house. It ate it's share of wood, but man, it cranked out the heat!

Don't remember the last time we used a match. We have no other heat source so our wood stove has to work good. It does.

24-7
I haven't had to re-light since early October.
Been a very cold and snowy year.
But, right now we are in a heat wave, the temp is above zero of course we are getting snow but at least it is warmer!!