How many sq ft do you heat?

@ 1200 sq feet upstairs heating with a little Jotul f3cb right now. will engage my summit, in the basement as the primary; heating @ 2400 sq ft after it starts getting cold and not burn the Jotul unless it gets really cold.

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Stove: Encore 2550 Cat 2.1 ft2

Space heated: 1396 ft2 200 year old cape. About 1000ft on the first floor + back "ell" addition, 400ft upstairs. The stove is located about in the middle of the first floor in the addition space which is kind of open, the front of the house and second floor is traditional antique Cape.

We had insulation work this year, we are now at mostly R10 walls (with some gaps) and varying R18-R38 ceilings. Basement is uninsulated stone with a slab floor. I make no effort to heat it and it typically stays at 55-60 all winter.

Right now its about 25F outside. Ive got a full load in the Encore dampered down all the way... 450F stove top/1400F cat probe.

Stove room = 74F
Living room in front of house = 70F
Upstairs... about 68F

In this weather I have to be very careful wit the Encore... This morning at 38F out I inadvertently got the stove room to almost 80 on a 3 split load, shut down. Didn't relight it till dinner. Its quite easy to bake us out of the house in this weather.

3000 sqft 2 story house (well insulated with spray foam) plus unfinished basement.
Temps have gotten down to near 0 this week.
The Sedore 3000 keeps the living room at 75, the upstairs in the upper 60's
If I filled it all the way up, I could probably get by on 2 or 3 loads per day, depending on how cold it is.

Approx. 1,500 sq. ft. walkout ranch, stove is in the basement. Firebox 2.3 cu. ft. It was 21 degrees outside today and the wife had to open a door. Poor wall insulation but ceiling is R-45. Stove barely able to keep up when outside drops to single digit temps.

Space Heated: 2300 sq ft, single story, open floor plan, insulated with whatever the code required when this house was built in 2004
Indoor temp: usually around 74*
Outdoor temp: typically 25* night - 45* day
Firebox size: 4.3 cu ft, with blower...but rarely use it
Number of loads/day: 1 full load, mostly oak that has seasoned at least 2 years
Burn time: ~24 hours

We heat 1700sf. Very drafty home. Ceiling is over r30 some walls are insulated others are barely insulated, 2 rooms have no insulation in the floors, and all of the windows are drafty.

3.2 cf firebox if we fully load it with hardwood we can get 15 hour burns but we almost never do that. We prefer to have 3-4 smaller loads that give us 6-7 hour burns. We find we can reduce the temp swings better this way.

I expect to burn 3.5-4 cords this year. I also burn a lot of construction debris (I'm a carpenter so lots of free wood)

The insert is centrally located on an interior wall so it is a very good set up for wood heat.

My house is 1155sf. My Lopi insert is rated to heat up to 1200sf (they changed that to 1400sf right after I got mine). It does well heating the living room, kitchen, and hearth room. What I call the hearth room is the narrow room behind the garage where the stove is. That's the one thing that hurts my insert...it's at the far south end of the house in a somewhat narrow room behind the garage that opens to the living room and kitchen. For its location, the insert does its job. With enough time it'll heat the whole house with the help of a fan. Burning a few hours in the morning before work and then again when I get home late at night it still does a good job with the living room and kitchen areas.
I just bought the house a couple of months ago and getting an insert was one of my first priorities. My dad was over this morning and we were discussing the idea of a free standing stove. If the house didn't have a fireplace already I would have put a free stander in a more central location.
I added a blower to my insert the day before Thanksgiving and it makes a noticeable difference.

Space Heated: 3300 sq ft, single story, open floor plan, 2x6 exterior R19 walls. Anderson thermopane windows. House was built in 1990
Indoor temp: usually around 68-72*
Outdoor temp: typically 25* night - 45* day

Hearthstone Clydesdale insert firebox size: 2.4 cu ft, with blower…on 24/7, 1200-2000 sq ft capacity
Number of loads/day: 3 partial loads, mostly oak.
Burn time: ~6-8 hours

Hearthstone Equinox firebox size: 4.0 cu ft, 2200 - 3500 sq ft capacity
Number of loads/day: 3 partial loads, mostly oak.
Burn time: ~6-8 hours

We only burn the insert when nights don't go under 40 deg or so.

The biggest load is before bed. I have a lot of irregular cut lengths mixed in the stacks. It's a bit of a challenge packing a full load but as I get into the more consistent big splits once they are seasoned (next year) I'll be able to pack the stoves better and possibly get away with 2 loads.

The house is a mecca of recessed lighting that leak warm air into the attic. Some day I'm gonna do something about it.

These soapstone stoves stay warm for a long time even when the coals are almost gone so it's like you get a reserve effect that keeps the house on an even keel.

Expected savings after payback (2 years) about $4500 - $5000 a year.

2.5 story center stair colonial with 26'x26' family room over the attached garage - ~3700 sf

The Traditions T-300p pellet stove heats the family room with a little bit of heat bleeding into the foyer and master bed

The Hampton HI200 insert heats the rest (~3000 sf) if the fourth bedroom is closed off (entire 3rd floor) with the door open the third floor goes to 72 °F and the first floor stays at 65 °F

Pellet stove is normally on medium and is run by programmable thermostat with a 2 °F swing to save the ignitor.

The insert gets fed on an as needed basis (1.5-3 hrs) but is hungrier than my Hemi when it's freezing out.

This time last year (before the insert) I was halfway through my second oil fill up of the season with household temps at 63 °F, now I'm cold if its below 68 °F with only about 30 gallons of oil in the last 7 weeks.

jotul f3cb 900 sq ft plenty of heat does my whole house without a problem at all..... well insulated house.

Heating a 2,400 sq ft fairly open floor plan 2 story house with a Lopi Liberty. 20 degrees outside right now, living room temperature 87 degrees, upstairs temperature 84 degrees.

680 square feet of former summer cottage
wall insulation=??? (where we've had the paneling down, the insulation is old enough not to have an R value listed, and that's in an addition so I have no idea what's in the rest of the original cottage)
attic insulation, I'm guessing r12
two large sliding glass doors facing lake
No basement, slab on part, piers on part
most windows are original 50's, a few are replacements, one is in such bad shape you can see outside where the bottom of the window meets the frame (rotten sill, poor install)
NOT an open concept
currently no back up heat
usually 60-75 degrees inside depending on outside air temps, outside ranging from 50's to teens beginning with install in October after we bought the place (no fire in the 50's, running 24-7 now that we're topping out in the 30's)
single story
Lopi Republic 1750 stove

Coldest so far was 13 degrees two nights ago, which was a surprise because the forcast was for 25-I didn't load up like it was going to be in the teens when I went to bed @ midnight at it was 60ish at 7:30 am when I got up. Typically I wake up around 3 to reload, but I usually go to bed earlier too.

I'm heating almost 2000 Sq ft. 1st floor with stove is an open floor plan chalet. The house is insulated well with good windows. What ever the temp is outside, I can melt the candles inside if we aren't careful.

2500sq.ft. colonial...1986.
For the most part loading once a day yet...mostly 2 year old ash.
Saving the oak and locust.
70-75.
2nd season with a cat..would never go back.

2000 sq. ft. two story house well insulated house with a relatively open floor plan. Pre-EPA woodstove with a basement install and some means for passive air circulation. Right now it is 20 degrees outside and 70 degrees in the basement, 68 degrees on the first floor and 65 degrees on the second floor. I have to load the stove about 3-4 times per day and will probably burn 4 cords this winter.

My house is about 2000 sq. ft., with about 500 sq. ft. downstairs with the stove and the rest upstairs. This is a 'split entry' with the front door halfway between up and downstairs, so we have a fairly wide stairwell between the floors, but still it is tough to get the heat from the stove o move around the house. We have some draft and insulation issues to fix downstairs.

How much do I heat? All of the downstairs heat all the time, and at about the freezing mark or above most of the upstairs too is heated with the wood stove. At 20 degrees we are only heating about 400 sq. ft upstairs, and below that the wood stove supplements the upstairs heat but we will still have the electric baseboard heaters on in every room upstairs (each room has a thermostat).

I guess my answer is that I don't heat as much as I would like with the wood stove. I guess on averge about half the heat is wood, half electric

My place is about 3000 SF. Old, masonry with no (or very little) wall insulation and no way to add any. I have replaced windows and that helped a little. We put a room addition on about 15 years ago. The stove sits at the far rear of the house (addition) with large openings into the 1st and 2nd floors. I have 2 furnaces and a boiler to heat the house (forced air in old part of house- 1 furnace per floor, and a boiler for the addition). There is no way this stove can heat the entire place. But, the rear of the house is where we spend most of our time summer and winter, so the wood stove is our primary heating source. I've toyed with the idea of a wood or pellet stove for the front of the house. I'm sure I could heat the whole place (1st and 2nd floors) with an additional stove. The basement is partially finished and is a very comfortable room with radiant heat in the floor. My kids spend a lot of time down there.

I think I remember a heat loss calculation many moons ago and figured I needed over 100,000 BTU per hour to heat the entire place. Of course, moving the heat to various areas would be difficult with a stove located at the far end of the house. I have no intention of putting in a wood furnace. I like to look at the fire. We provide about 2/3 - 3/4 of our heating needs with the stove.

I heat about 1000 sq ft all on one floor of an up/down duplex that is fairly well insulated . 1.7 cubic ft firebox & will burn about 3 loads a day ( maybe a bit more in cold weather ) that totals about 4 cords per year .I heat solely with wood but have a propane back up that is turned off . Stove is in a central location ( living room ) with other rooms surrounding it . If I were to get another stove I would get a larger firebox ( over 2.0 cubic ft ) to get longer burn times .

If I had a full second floor I'd be heating 2400 sq feet plus, really you're not heating square feet...you're heating cubic feet. My great room is about 3/5 of the internal volume of the house and air circulation is always an issue of sorts, the corners tend to stay cool. That room has a 26' ceiling so its almost 3 stories worth of square footage...if it had more floors.

Rooms separated by walls also are tough to reach and keep the thermostats off, but the stove does an admirable job.

I have to work on my circulation and get it to work better...I've done the fan thing enough to know it works reasonably well, but the boss says she doesn't want to be tripping on fans in the doorways all winter. Thinking of installing a couple ducts in the cool rooms and moving that air directly into the stove room behind the stove.