How my new Stove ruined my life!

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JIBLANE

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Oct 29, 2011
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Long Island NY
The room where the pellet stove is of course gets very warm It certainly also heats most of my down stairs roughly 2000 SQFT The upstairs is another 1500 then there is the basement and a few rooms down the hallway. I basically am happy just getting the main downstairs zone heated which will cut my oil bill way down.

Now when my wife or kids leave the room or go father down the hall they now complain that its cold . When I ck the other zone thermastate its showing the temp in the area is 70.
They just can't seem to understand that when you watch TV where the strove is and the room is in the high 70's maybe 80 and you walk down the hall and it 70 or 69 they say its cold. If I didn't have the stove the whole house never was kept above 70 and they were always comfortable now 70 is not warm enough anymore they like 80 better.
So my whole family now wants me to raise the themostate on the other zones. Wow I spoiled them I find the setting at 75 on the other zones. My oil bill will be worse then last year if this continues. I get dirty looks when I turn the Thermatstaes down. I feel like there a mutiny going on nobody listens to me they just want me to keep suppling them with more pellets. There all going crazy! They walk around like zombies from to much heat!
They now fall a sleep on the couches and chairs where the stove is. My whole family falls asleep on the couch and chairs where the stove and tv are . My wife hasn't been to bed since I put the stove in. We don't even talk much anymore. There are major battles in the TV room on who wants to watch something they fist fight for the remote.
I may just knock down the rest of the house and just live in one room with a pellet stove and TV. I can't even enjoy the room anymore I get no more privacy I have to watch tv in my bed alone they took my remote away. They took my recliner away I'm lost. The stove destroyed my life!
 
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Don't you just love it when someone who hasn't trained their spouse has a fit when the spouse walks all over them.

Now where is that miniature violin .....
 
Install a second stove!
 
schmeg said:
Install a second stove!
My wife and girls complain when the temperature drops to 70. Installing a second stove was one of the best home improvements we ever made. We have been warmer than ever and don't have an oil bill. I just started a fire in our living room. The temperature was 72 but it will be cold over night.
 
Haaaaaaa haaaa haa...... That is great.

But on a serious note. Have you tried putting a small fan on the floor (away from stove/down the hall) and blowing the cold air towards the Warm room the Stove is in? Cold air is denser and will find warm air easier. Then that cold air is replaced by the rising warm air. Just a thought. We like to keep our home around 75*-76* in the Winter. About 72* right now. But we have a couple ceiling fans on low (in Winter/reverse mode) and little through the wall fans for the bedrooms.

Classic post. I was afraid to open at 1st. Too Funny... Gotta love the stove.
 
I'll try the fan Idea but my one year old boy may smash it with his brothers hockey stick! They now demand more heat they want to eat dinner in that room now! I just may have to get a second stove there all starting to move there personal items in the TV room I saw a pair of underwear spinning around on the cieling fan today!
 
Do all of you really keep your homes as hot as you say?
 
My stat never goes above 70......much more than that, and I'd be a sweating pellet pig. :gulp:
 
j-takeman said:
I have my stat set to 72ºF and the wife will get evil if I try to go any lower!

J, this is why i ask. I read some of the temps that people say they keep their homes. To me and mine, those temps are just unbearably hot. In February, even as far north as I live, if my home is over 70 degrees, the wife turns down the pellet stove. It might just be our family, but there is no sleep if the temps go over 70.
 
Last year when I was getting my oil bills I freaked out between $900 and $1000 a month! I was so pissed I would hand out gloves, Sweet shirts and wool hats to my family and friends when they came in. I would patrol around the house like a soldier guarding the Thermostats against violators who would try and raise them! For me 68 to 70 is just fine. I would have to strap a portable thermometer on my side to prove it was warm enough so I wouldn't get tossed in jail for not providing the correct room temperture for my family. Now this damn stove warms up so well I am now a pellet delivery man dad get more pellets! I dream about Pellets!
 
yep.i feel your pain.i cant seem to keep em happy either.as soon as they leave the pellet stove room they,re freezing and recently i"heard mention that the stove isnt that good at heating the house.all this while the room with the stove is 80+ and the rest of the 1st floor is 74ish.then after sleeping upstairs in temps in the bedrooms at roughly 67 they complain in the morning that the downstairs is too hot at 70.
 
My wife was raised on Guam and I was raised in AZ. So, we like it warm. Anything less than 76F just doesn't cut it. I've always preferred to be too hot than too cold.

However, I do believe it is partly psychological because in the summer when it's hot, we like to get the house nice and cool. Then 76F in the house is too warm. I guess we just feel cozy knowing we can go into the house and be warm when it's cold outside.
 
It's all that thin blood down in them southern states that requires the stove be set at broil, us thick blooded northerners break out in a sweat above 55 and turn on the AC at 65.
 
SmokeyTheBear said:
It's all that thin blood down in them southern states that requires the stove be set at broil, us thick blooded northerners break out in a sweat above 55 and turn on the AC at 65.

Here's the funny part, Bear. All of us from west Texas. So for us up here at 46 latitude, over 70 is too darn hot.
 
Thats right I like it cool but I now call it the drug room because they all look like there on herion nodding out from the heat I can't even stay in there for to long I feel like I may pass out. Then they would slowly stroll across the house and they would rap there little arms around them and shiver and say its so cold over here. I would find the TV on and everyone sound a sleep. I would sneak in the room and shut the TV off and one of them would open barely open an eye and say Dad I'm watching it. How are you watching it with your eyes closed and sleeping? If I lower the setting while they are sleeping they all jump like they have springs attached to there butts. Leave the stove alone! I can't win here!
 
imacman said:
JIBLANE said:
.....I would patrol around the house like a soldier guarding the Thermostats against violators who would try and raise them!......

Looks like we have some forum members who are candidates for something like this...keeps that pesky wife away from stat:

www.amazon.com/SUPCO-Thermostat-Lock-Box-Plastic/dp/B0002YTJKG


;-P

all this makes me remember somewhat related side story.

i worked in a "large" independent book store in portland oregon. (a famous one) at the main store.
i was in the physical plant. (and yes. we had those lockboxes.)
my boss and i always marveled at the lack of common sense a group of highly educated people could display.

"if i turn up the air conditioning any further, the units will freeze up and then where will we be?"
they just never got it.

so he kept a thermostat mounted on the burlap covered cubicle divider at his desk on the third floor.
employees would come to him and ask him to turn the ac up. he'd say "no problem" and turn up the totally unconnected thermostat, and they'd go away happy.

in another great ruse, he installed an electric pencil sharpener in the store room and told everyone it was a security camera. supply theft dropped dramatically.
 
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