Believer in wood burners

[fireview2788]

To explain this I will use a timeline:

Jan 2011-
$580 electric bill in our new to us house
Begin using open fireplace in earnest to heat and wife still freezing

Feb 2011-
$450 electric bill, CRAP, wife still freezing
Friend recommends a wood stove and HEARTH.com for great info; She researched for over 2 years and recommends Woodstock (she never bought)

April 2011-
End of burning season- 3 cords burned in 3 months

October 2011-
start burning in the Fireview

Jan 2012-
Been burning for 3.5 months and haven't even gone through a full cord, no electric bill over $180, and a very warm and happy family!!

Thanks Hearth.com and Woodstock.

fv

 

[Dairyman]

That's great! Has the electric company came and checked your meter yet? ;-P

 

[Backwoods Savage]

That is great fv. It sounds as if our wood burned is about the same but I think we are just about to start on our second cord. Now I wonder if we'll go through more than 2 cord this winter? Wow! I never thought I'd see that day.

 

[fireview2788]

That's great! Has the electric company came and checked your meter yet? ;-P

Not yet, but there's still hope!

Dennis, it will be interesting to see.

fv

 

[timusp40]

Warm and happy wife! That is a very important part of your story. In all the posts in the Hearth Forums, I have yet to find a really negative discussion of the Woodstock fireview. There is a recent lengthy thread here about a new Woodstock Progress install that mentions a few things that the Fireview lacks in features and performance, but I think in general Fireview owners are very satisfied. I am still building my stacks while saving my $$$$$ for a stove purchase. As I watch the outside temperature drop to near zero tonight and hear my gas furnace going on so often, I'll put another blanket on the bed waiting for the day when I just need to "Put another log on the Fireview".
Tim

 

[Todd]

I love stories like this. Sounds like that stove will pay for itself in no time at all.

 

[eclecticcottage]

Awesome-and nice choice of stove.

 

[heatwise]

love the story

 

[SlyFerret]

Out of curiosity, what would your electric bill been before the stove, but without the fireplace sucking all the heat out of the house through the chimney?

-SF

 

[jharkin]

Thats a big WIN right there. nice work.

 

[fireview2788]

Out of curiosity, what would your electric bill been before the stove, but without the fireplace sucking all the heat out of the house through the chimney?

-SF

Basing it on last March and April when the weather was similar to what we are having now it would be around $300, give or take a little, for each of the last four months. That would be a $480 savings, gross estimate, thus far


fv

 

[HotCoals]

Plus your prolly warmer!

 

[chvymn99]

Great story. Congrats...

 

[Burd]

ITs the best feeling ever, I hate paying the utlity companys