How much water do you use?

I used to use a large stainless steel roasting pan on top of my old 118. It held four gallons and the stove would evaporate all of that and sometimes more every day. The place was still too dry.

Can't do that anymore since I have to load the stove through the griddle top. I wouldn't care to be sloshing around a big, flat pan of scalding hot water 4-5 times a day.

Probably close to the same thing. My wife also likes to dry the laundry near the stove so that raises the humidity quite a bit. It is still relatively dry on days without the laundry. btw, she does not dry the clothes completely but finishes the job in the drier.

I have a pot on the stove, a little more than a quart/day to refill.
I just got 2 humidifiers & they put about 3 to 4 gallons/day in the air. House humidity gets to about 30 to 35%.
Much more than that I get condensation on the windows.
Winters are dry here, cold air don't hold much moisture.
And It's a fine line for moisture inside the house, don't want to get condensation inside & cause other problems with too much.
one ref I found :
http://www.home-smart.org/how_your_...795&SelectCatID=795&CatId=795&ref=795:HYHW_LN

gallon, or gallon and a half, daily does the trick for me.

I don't think I am a fan of putting water on the stove anymore. 1) tried a nice cast iron pot the 1st year..turns it rusty and gross in no time. 2) Switched to a stainless steel pot, works ok but all the minerals from the evaporated water crusts up the bottom of the pot...makes a mess. 3) even using a trivet you eventually will splash some water on the stove top which will make rust spots which you have to buff out and go back over with stove paint.

I think this year we will just stick to the humidifier...like mentioned in previous posts the water you get from the pot on the stove is trivial compared to running a humidifier.

Steve

I'm using an enamel open top tea kettle. It's prolly 1/2 gallon capacity, and I'm filling it twice per day. I could easily go four times if I were home and running the stove harder. It's kinda fun watching the buildup of all the water scale.

I don't use water or kettles.

Battenkiller said:

I wouldn't care to be sloshing around a big, flat pan of scalding hot water 4-5 times a day.

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If you play your cards right, you could probably turn that into a wildly popular Japanese game show.

"And we'll be right back with; DON'T GET SCALD!"

I keep 2 pots on the stove. One holds about 3 gallons ( I only fill 1/2-2/3), the other is about 1.5 quarts. It's kind of a tea kettle but tall.
Refill twice a day usually about a 1/2-3/4 gallon each time, and we haven't really been running 24/7 yet. It gets old after a while, but the house gets way too dry w/o it, and the wife and I both start having problems when it gets down below about 30%.
House has been staying between 38-41% (so far) if my little gauge is telling the truth.
Still have to fill a humidifier, and that uses grid power. Bad juju. :coolsmirk:

Backwoods Savage said:

Probably close to the same thing. My wife also likes to dry the laundry near the stove so that raises the humidity quite a bit. It is still relatively dry on days without the laundry. btw, she does not dry the clothes completely but finishes the job in the drier.

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I thought I was the only one here that did that. We use accordion type racks. Saves a lot on power bills.

I don't do anything like that. I have the bathroom fans set to 30% and they come on once in a while.... cooking or just from people being in the house (people make quite a bit of humidity).

Good chart to go by for inside humidity:
http://www.windowworld.com/resources/repair-center/prevent-fogging-condensation.php

Agent said:

It's kinda fun watching the buildup of all the water scale.

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You use a time lapse camara or just the naked eye?

I always figured putting out humidity near the stove just insured that it would go right up the stack before it could do me any good. I put a humidifier w/ humidistat on the other end of the house, and set that bad boy for 30%RH. It needs 2-3 gal per day depending on the weather to maintain my 2300 sq ft. The amount YOU will need depends on your airsealing, and will vary from 0-10 gallons/day.

woodgeek said:

I always figured putting out humidity near the stove just insured that it would go right up the stack before it could do me any good. I put a humidifier w/ humidistat on the other end of the house, and set that bad boy for 30%RH. It needs 2-3 gal per day depending on the weather to maintain my 2300 sq ft. The amount YOU will need depends on your airsealing, and will vary from 0-10 gallons/day.

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I am consistently at zero gallons.

We have a large 4.5 gallon pot and I fill it 3 times/day. It's never completely empty, but I'd say we go through easily 8-10 liters/day.

I've stopped putting water on any of the stoves for humidification. Still have a tea kettle on one of them all the time, for drinks.

We are on well water now, and the build-up of scale and etc. in the pots when we were using them was dramatic. What I found that works to help this is to clean the pots out once a day. Not even scrubbing hard: just wipe them out thoroughly with a scrubber pad or whatever. Doing that, we never got any build-up, or more than a day's worth. If you let it go for a while, the only way to clean them out, that I've found, is to use some of the stuff you buy in plumbing departments to do just that.

We use a kettle, this year, soon as it gets here, we will be using the stone one from Hearthstone. We only go through a half gallon a day or so on the stove, and I think the stove "looks right" with a kettle on it. We also have a large reef aquarium, that is plumbed from the dining room to the basement and back, and it puts 2-3 gallons a day into the air when it gets really cold and dry out.

project240 said:

We have a large 4.5 gallon pot and I fill it 3 times/day. It's never completely empty, but I'd say we go through easily 8-10 liters/day.

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Measurement foul!! either use one I understand, or use one I don't!! If you mix them up, I am forced to actually do the math.. and I don't wanna!!

lol

The windows in my house are all raining inside now, sure wouldn't want to ad moisture to an already wet situation. Think I did it the first yr only and found out that is really a bad thing for me.

We have a old smoke dragon lakewood and sit a steel 5 gallon can on it and fill it once a day

I have no need to add humidity. According to my digital humidistat, it's still 56% in the living room, and a hair higher in the basement.

wkpoor said:

The windows in my house are all raining inside now, sure wouldn't want to ad moisture to an already wet situation. Think I did it the first yr only and found out that is really a bad thing for me.

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Windows raining huh? Sounds like the seal in your double pane windows is shot... time for some home improvement? Err... assuming they are double pane.

Dakotas Dad said:

project240 said:

We have a large 4.5 gallon pot and I fill it 3 times/day. It's never completely empty, but I'd say we go through easily 8-10 liters/day.

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Measurement foul!! either use one I understand, or use one I don't!! If you mix them up, I am forced to actually do the math.. and I don't wanna!!

lol

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Sorry, I meant to say a large 4.5 liter pot, which is equivalent to a little over a gallon. We go through about 2.5 gallons/day.