3700 SF Colonial
Used 800 Gal/yr to keep the house at 62 when we were home and 50 otherwise. Tracking summer usage puts water heating at about a gallon a day
Mom moved in this winter - fuel usage went up to a full tank (~230 gallons) every 5 weeks.
Installed the insert and fuel usage went down to 100 gallons every 5 weeks. And this is with the temperature up around 68-72 (78-80+ in the stove room :ahhh: ) Wife and kids now complain if the house is 65 or less.
Burned a little over a cord that I took off of my own land, but I did buy a cheap chainsaw and maul to process it - make it $150 for both
$150 for wood burned
260 gallons of oil saved @ $3.50/g average - $910
$760 saved and much warmer.
Aaron
Used 800 Gal/yr to keep the house at 62 when we were home and 50 otherwise. Tracking summer usage puts water heating at about a gallon a day
Mom moved in this winter - fuel usage went up to a full tank (~230 gallons) every 5 weeks.
Installed the insert and fuel usage went down to 100 gallons every 5 weeks. And this is with the temperature up around 68-72 (78-80+ in the stove room :ahhh: ) Wife and kids now complain if the house is 65 or less.
Burned a little over a cord that I took off of my own land, but I did buy a cheap chainsaw and maul to process it - make it $150 for both
$150 for wood burned
260 gallons of oil saved @ $3.50/g average - $910
$760 saved and much warmer.
Aaron