How long does it take to heat your house, not the air in the house, back up after a cold snap?

Good question. I don't have a good answer, but I'll comment.
I try really hard to not let the house get so cool that I have to rewarm it. When we get the cold like just hit, that's difficult.
I can go in the kitchen right now, open a cab., and it'll be cool. The temp outside is 26, and it's 68 in here.
Have backup heat, but it's turned off.
If I wake to the house in the low 60's, it'll take 3 hours or more to rewarm the house to 70, depending on the weather, and how hard I run the stove.
I'll set the alarm for 3, 4, or 5 am when it's super cold out and reload the stove just to keep the house in the mid to upper 60's.
Last night, I loaded the stove, went to bed about 12:30, and didn't get up 'til almost 9 (very late for me), and the house was 65, with outside at 26.

When I go to the farm for a week or weekend I turn my heat down to 45 deg. And it takes two days to warm it all back up.

Billy

we had a few days of lows here that bottomed out at -30 and my cabin was generally toasty through it, though in the peripheral areas i could feel the cold penetrating in. Two days after that low the temperatures were in the upper teens though the peripheral areas of the cabin still felt as though it was well below zero. Today the temp is 28 and it still doesn't feel like it normally would at that temp. though it's getting better.

I'm not sure what you mean exactly??

If I don't fire the stove and let the boiler do it's thing it will take a solid 24hrs to get the slab all warm and house up to temp (radiant floor heat). Make a fire in the stove and 4-5 hours at most.

Inside the cabinets are the same temp as the house, or warmer if the floor heat has been running.

I crank up the Oslo and the back-up oil system. If the sun is out
during the day, we open the thermal shades to increase the solar
heat gain. The basement always takes longer.

SolarAndWood said:

The thing that surprises me is that I am still running wide open 2 days after the near record lows passed but never overheated the house even though the air in the house never went below the low 70s. Must be the only thing warm in the house was the air and until the mass comes back up the air is as warm as its going to get.

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took me a few minutes to understand what you were saying. ur talking the house itself like walls and stuff like that. it'll take me a few hours of full bore burning at 2.5 to get my upstairs to 70's and mid sixty's in other rooms of my upstairs. bedrooms are 3 rd floor stayin the mid to high 50's just for my liking. this is what my temps were this weekend when it was -4 degrees. so it was cold.

We usually do not get behind but there was one day a week or so ago. It may have taken an hour or 2 to get back to a really warm house but we were never cold.

I don't usually get behind as I don't go anywhere this time of year but......I will find out soon. I have to go to a funeral in Canton this weekend. Leaving Friday and won't get back till Sunday. It will be the first time the Heritage has to be re-lit since October. My guess is with my old drafty house, it will take a while to heat her back up