Snow and Bone Chilling -4 Deg F Artic Air coming this weekend - Will u need Backup heat? What Kind?

80° and rising in the basement (just reloaded the old wood eater) about 75° in the Main part of the house (Living room/Kitchen). The wood stove really helps to keep the furnace from calling for heat. ("Our Room" is now the Living room, at night its the bedroom, evening its the living room/ Temp of the room the unit is in)

It still kicks on every 10-15 minutes (once it reaches 175°) then runs the blower for about 5-10 minutes (back down to 115°) . So its on about 3-4 times an hour anyways. Helping to keep the heat loss time to a minimum.

Stat hasn't called for heat since early this morning. But is 26° outside now and the Sun is shining through the windows.

My house is a 1660 sq. ft tri-level with a OHW 3 zone system. My pellet stove is in the basement, so I try heating 4 floors on #3 setting. Doen't work that well for the top level as the oil kicks in. I have a 20k btu kerosene heater for power outages and usually buy only 5 gals. for the season. Tonight, with the new snow pack it will be arouind 10. I will turn the setting to 1 to keep the basement warm and burn a tank full of kero and the whole hosue will be toasty.

Anything above 68 in the winter is far too warm for us.

We keep the house at 68 in the summer.

I grew up w/ the house set at 65 w/ baseboard hot water heat. I would crack the window during the winter to get the room cold.

This habit helped a lot when I bought my house and had to pay for oil.

At night I'll put the stove down to 60. Extra blankets on the bed and a few cats.

How many tons do you burn or how many bags a day on average

Was 2 bags a day the last 3 seasons. But this year 1 bag a day is the most. With a 1/3-1/2 being more of an average. I have only burned 1.5 ton so far this season. But I have burned about 2 cord of wood. The pellet furnace in the basement helps to pull that wood heat upstairs.

You burn wood also.... How many bags have you burned? How much wood?

Hello

Looks like Ch. 9 updated the forecast for a new low of 11 Deg F for Monday morning. See chart below.

Turning up the pellet stove to medium heat level 3 for Severe Weather Alert tonight!

Southern Coos County

Wind Chill Advisory:

Issued at: 6:56 PM EST 2/12/12, expires at: 8:00 AM EST 2/13/12

Wind chill advisory in effect until 8 am est Monday.
The NWS in gray has issued a wind chill advisory, which is in effect until 8 am est Monday.
Locations, northern New Hampshire.
Hazard types, dangerous wind chills.
Wind chill readings, as low as 28 below.
Timing, through 8 am Monday morning.
Impacts, exposed skin may be prone to frostbite.
Winds, west 5 to 15 mph.
Temperatures, 11 below to 5 above zero.
Precautionary/preparedness actions,
A wind chill advisory means that very cold air and strong winds will combine to generate low wind chills. This will result in frost bite and lead to hypothermia if precautions are not taken. If you must venture outdoors, make sure you wear a hat and gloves.

These were our 3 day highs and lows (left) and relative humidity right. Actually feels very dry- not moist at all. Sieben is about 1,000 ft higher than me. Temps here in the northern Helena valley are a bit cooler. We're real close to lake Helena- so my temps are 5-10 deg below these.


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Another bust of a forecast. In the colder part of my rather sprawling town it made it down to 1°F this morning, here it was 7.5°F it did get down to 1.7 °F yesterday mid evening but was at 2.8 °F at 11:45 PM .

Hello

Yes, Smokey Maybe the TV boosts the numbers in the original forecast to boost their ratings! At least they do try to make amends in their updates!

Well the low was 12.4 Deg F in my area last night from the memory in my digital Thermometer. So the latest updated Ch. 9 TV forecast was 11 Deg F which was closeer than some web sites that do not get updated!!

I did have to go up to heat level 4 for a while last night because the wind chill made it below zero. That wind did make it more drafty!

My backup heat is now a wood eater instead of oil and it provides more heat than the pellet stove for 1/3 the price. Go figure.

Took a pellet break since Sat night, stove ready to go. Have to use some of my oil or the fungus will get it.
Hard to beat 80K BTU furnace that will put out 1200 CFM at 140 F.

x2 on the cats!!

Heated all season on pellets. Unfortunately, my hot water is heated by oil. I will change that over in a month or so.

No problem unless it gets windy. The XXV can keep it at 70 degrees downstairs then I installed 2 thru the wall fans in the ceiling between downstairs and the bedrooms upstairs which heat the upstairs to about 67 degrees or so. a boost of about seven or eight degrees. The only time I use oil is to boost the temp on real cold mornings. I figure a tank of oil should last three or four years now.

My T6 is my backup or more accurately my supplement to the St. Croix. Cannot be comfortable in our 172 year old house with just one stove going either way.