-42(F) and the Blaze King is KING!

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I am amazed at the accuracy of the weather predictors. All week they said it was to drop to -41 on Sunday. AND IT DID! I had to move the thermostat from 1 to 2 but the house is still warm. Man oh man am I glad I went with the KING! With the thermostat at 2 it burns wood faster but still only having to load twice a day, once in the morning, once before bed.
 

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Nothing like being in a warm house and looking at thermometer showing cold temps. We use to cheer when the spread passed 110deg. The kids would check every hour and yell out if the spread was growing or not.
 
Take a picture and post the amount of wood (also species) you put in the stove for that long of a burn cycle. I know it's a Cat but you give us non Cat EPA users fits!
 
How thick are your walls & what type of insulation do you have?
Glad your staying warm because that's mind numbing cold.
 
hotprinter said:
I am amazed at the accuracy of the weather predictors. All week they said it was to drop to -41 on Sunday. AND IT DID! I had to move the thermostat from 1 to 2 but the house is still warm. Man oh man am I glad I went with the KING! With the thermostat at 2 it burns wood faster but still only having to load twice a day, once in the morning, once before bed.

Man it takes one hellava stove to keep with up with your climate!

Ray
 
i am glad its +41 right now i hardly use any wood during the day and have to slow burn them and set the blower lower and we are still in the 80's in this house when we had -22 that night the oil furnace would run for 10 mins and stops for another 4-6 mins and it would run again for another 8-11 mins all night long lol
 
Hiram Maxim said:
How thick are your walls & what type of insulation do you have?
Glad your staying warm because that's mind numbing cold.

REPLY:
6" walls, then vapor barrier on the inside and then we furred it horizontally and did all the wiring on those strips so no break in the vapor barrier. Fiberglass batts for insulation. We built it in 1983. We have slab heat in the basement and oil fired baseboard upstairs. The slab has been cold since the blaze king, but my wife notices the upstairs floor (laminate) is warmer.
 
hotprinter said:
Hiram Maxim said:
How thick are your walls & what type of insulation do you have?
Glad your staying warm because that's mind numbing cold.

REPLY:
6" walls, then vapor barrier on the inside and then we furred it horizontally and did all the wiring on those strips so no break in the vapor barrier. Fiberglass batts for insulation. We built it in 1983. We have slab heat in the basement and oil fired baseboard upstairs. The slab has been cold since the blaze king, but my wife notices the upstairs floor (laminate) is warmer.

Nice set-up! Wish I had radiant in floor heating....
How many sq ft are you heating?
Cheers,Hiram
 
Nice set-up! Wish I had radiant in floor heating....
How many sq ft are you heating?
Cheers,Hiram[/quote]


REPLY:
Our house is 2240 (1120 x 2 stories). Basic 28 x 40 rectangle. When we installed the floor heat there was not much information about the install (it was 1983). They had just come out with the gray quest piping (which has since gone out of business because of problems and lawsuits). There were 2 thoughts at the time. To insulate underneath or not. People said that by not insulating the gravel would act as a heat sink. Well, I wish we would have insulated as now the facts are out and it is the way to go. Plus now they put in mixing valves to keep the water tempered which we do not have.
 
REPLY:
Our house is 2240 (1120 x 2 stories). Basic 28 x 40 rectangle. When we installed the floor heat there was not much information about the install (it was 1983). They had just come out with the gray quest piping (which has since gone out of business because of problems and lawsuits). There were 2 thoughts at the time. To insulate underneath or not. People said that by not insulating the gravel would act as a heat sink. Well, I wish we would have insulated as now the facts are out and it is the way to go. Plus now they put in mixing valves to keep the water tempered which we do not have.[/quote]

What would be the difference in having insulated under the Quest? Less fuel use? Or preserving the quest longer? Or both? And how does tempering the water affect the situation?

Congratulations on the BK working out so well.
 
So how much is the Blaze King heating right now? Just the first floor or upstairs too,, no downstairs.
 
snowleopard said:
What would be the difference in having insulated under the Quest? Less fuel use? Or preserving the quest longer? Or both? And how does tempering the water affect the situation?
Congratulations on the BK working out so well.

Insulating under the slab keeps the slab from loosing the heat to the ground. Turns out that the ground really cools the slab fast, the 2 inch blue foam underneath the slab works well. It really makes a difference. And the tempering means that instead of dumping 160 degree water from the boiler to heat the slab, you temper it to about 90 - 100. That seems to work way better from people I know.
 
wkpoor said:
So how much is the Blaze King heating right now? Just the first floor or upstairs too,, no downstairs.

It is really heating the whole house with the boiler coming on just a tiny bit. We heat with oil fired outside baseboard upstairs and slab heat in the basement. It has been -30 to -40 all weekend so I had to turn the thermostat on the blaze king to 2.5
 
It's been chilly all right. I'm running with the stove only, as my boiler went down in January. I couldn't be more pleased with the fact that my wood stove is keeping my house warm through this snap. But I'm ready to see it get warmer now.
 
Nice Hotprinter,

That is precisely why I always say that if I bought a brand new stove, it would be the king.

I helped a buddy hook up radiant pex pipe in his house connected to an outdoor furnace. He didn't buy the metal heat deflectors (that cover the hoses) they suggest for his applycation due to the price. But he says it works great. He used to go through 7+ cords of wood to heat the small house and hot water, before the radiant heat was put on. I don't know how much he will use this year.
 
hotprinter said:
I am amazed at the accuracy of the weather predictors. All week they said it was to drop to -41 on Sunday. AND IT DID! I had to move the thermostat from 1 to 2 but the house is still warm. Man oh man am I glad I went with the KING! With the thermostat at 2 it burns wood faster but still only having to load twice a day, once in the morning, once before bed.

How long is your wood lasting between reloads at that temp?

Can you really tell the difference between -20 and -40?
 
Lanning said:
hotprinter said:
How long is your wood lasting between reloads at that temp?
Can you really tell the difference between -20 and -40?

-40 again tonight and one thing I notice is that I cannot get as much wood in now as it has been nearly 2 weeks without stopping for cleaning and the ash/coal bed is just about up to the door. I set it at about 2 and it will still be cranking in the morning. I burn it really hot for about 10 or 20 minutes while I watch it, then I turn it down so that there are just a few small flames but mainly red coals.

And yes, you can tell a HUGE difference between -20 (short weather) and -40 (long john weather). Can you tell the difference between 40 degrees and 60 degrees? Or 30 and 50? 20 degrees is quite a bit so when it has been -40 for an extended time -20 seems warm.
 
hotprinter said:
snowleopard said:
What would be the difference in having insulated under the Quest? Less fuel use? Or preserving the quest longer? Or both? And how does tempering the water affect the situation?
Congratulations on the BK working out so well.

Insulating under the slab keeps the slab from loosing the heat to the ground. Turns out that the ground really cools the slab fast, the 2 inch blue foam underneath the slab works well. It really makes a difference. And the tempering means that instead of dumping 160 degree water from the boiler to heat the slab, you temper it to about 90 - 100. That seems to work way better from people I know.

If you don't mind my asking, how much fuel oil were you using for a heating season before you got the stove in?
 
hotprinter said:
-40 again tonight and one thing I notice is that I cannot get as much wood in now as it has been nearly 2 weeks without stopping for cleaning and the ash/coal bed is just about up to the door. I set it at about 2 and it will still be cranking in the morning. I burn it really hot for about 10 or 20 minutes while I watch it, then I turn it down so that there are just a few small flames but mainly red coals.

And yes, you can tell a HUGE difference between -20 (short weather) and -40 (long john weather). Can you tell the difference between 40 degrees and 60 degrees? Or 30 and 50? 20 degrees is quite a bit so when it has been -40 for an extended time -20 seems warm.

I agree, we can get a stretch of -30's and -40's it is kinda strange that a negative temp would feel warm. When I was growing up I always thought that 0 °F was freezing instead of 32 °F . When it was 32 °F after an extended time period below zero it felt warm, actually hot. Long sleeve shirt no coat weather. Of course that is when everybody gets sick since it is still 32 °F , even though it feels like 70 °F .
 
MishMouse said:
hotprinter said:
-40 again tonight and one thing I notice is that I cannot get as much wood in now as it has been nearly 2 weeks without stopping for cleaning and the ash/coal bed is just about up to the door. I set it at about 2 and it will still be cranking in the morning. I burn it really hot for about 10 or 20 minutes while I watch it, then I turn it down so that there are just a few small flames but mainly red coals.

And yes, you can tell a HUGE difference between -20 (short weather) and -40 (long john weather). Can you tell the difference between 40 degrees and 60 degrees? Or 30 and 50? 20 degrees is quite a bit so when it has been -40 for an extended time -20 seems warm.

I agree, we can get a stretch of -30's and -40's it is kinda strange that a negative temp would feel warm. When I was growing up I always thought that 0 °F was freezing instead of 32 °F . When it was 32 °F after an extended time period below zero it felt warm, actually hot. Long sleeve shirt no coat weather. Of course that is when everybody gets sick since it is still 32 °F , even though it feels like 70 °F .

The cold does not get you sick.. What gets people sick is being indoors in the warm where the germs can't escape and get spread around..

Ray
 
hotprinter said:
I am amazed at the accuracy of the weather predictors. All week they said it was to drop to -41 on Sunday. AND IT DID! I had to move the thermostat from 1 to 2 but the house is still warm. Man oh man am I glad I went with the KING! With the thermostat at 2 it burns wood faster but still only having to load twice a day, once in the morning, once before bed.

The ones around here need new dice.
 
snowleopard said:
hotprinter said:
snowleopard said:
What would be the difference in having insulated under the Quest? Less fuel use? Or preserving the quest longer? Or both? And how does tempering the water affect the situation?
Congratulations on the BK working out so well.

Insulating under the slab keeps the slab from loosing the heat to the ground. Turns out that the ground really cools the slab fast, the 2 inch blue foam underneath the slab works well. It really makes a difference. And the tempering means that instead of dumping 160 degree water from the boiler to heat the slab, you temper it to about 90 - 100. That seems to work way better from people I know.

If you don't mind my asking, how much fuel oil were you using for a heating season before you got the stove in?


WE WERE USING about $1000 per month (at $3.50 per gallon). I will post how much we use at the next fillup. I am hoping less as we have been burning the blaze king solidly since we got it. Of course we still heat our water with the boiler so it kicks on during showers and laundry and such...
 
Imagine how much you'll save once you stop bathing?! I tell my wife about our savings constantly, but apparently from 20' away, she goes deaf, or something. No problems, especially since the cats don't come near me anymore, time spent petting them is now focused on wood gathering.
 
hotprinter said:
WE WERE USING about $1000 per month (at $3.50 per gallon). I will post how much we use at the next fillup. I am hoping less as we have been burning the blaze king solidly since we got it. Of course we still heat our water with the boiler so it kicks on during showers and laundry and such...

So about 1800 gallons a year? What kind of boiler do you have? asked the nosy parker . . . .
 
[quote author="hotprinter" date="1297639932"]I am amazed at the accuracy of the weather predictors.

There's something you'll never hear from a New Englander! If you miss by 2 degrees here it is the difference between a 1/2" of rain and 1' of snow.
 
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