I was reading a thread where someone asked how much wood you guys are burning to heat your homes. The replies were interesting. Some saying 2 to 5 cords for a smaller home, others saying 8 to 12 for larger homes, etc etc..
One thing that confused me is if you guys are referring to full cords or face cords?
I have a 1400 square foot home (1978 with extra blown insulation in the attic) and I am installing an Enviro Venice 1700 insert. My fireplace is about 8 feet from the direct center of my home. I'm an hour or so north of the Detroit area and I'm wondering how much wood I'm going to need to keep this place at 68 or so. I have about 5 - 7 face cords of elm, maple and ash saved up.
My brick home is fairly well insulated but I think my windows are the weak spot.
There's a place up the street from me that gets inventory delivered in these heavy wood crates that are made of 1" thick x 5 inch wide rough saw (pine?) boards. They really are 1 to 1.25 inches thick. They have agreed to save them for me but my multimeter came back at 1.5 Megaohms so they are still up around 30% moisture content. Going to have to let them sit for a year I guess.
I'm wondering how much wood I'm going to burn and how much the pine boards will help offset the wood volume I need to collect.
Thanks,
One thing that confused me is if you guys are referring to full cords or face cords?
I have a 1400 square foot home (1978 with extra blown insulation in the attic) and I am installing an Enviro Venice 1700 insert. My fireplace is about 8 feet from the direct center of my home. I'm an hour or so north of the Detroit area and I'm wondering how much wood I'm going to need to keep this place at 68 or so. I have about 5 - 7 face cords of elm, maple and ash saved up.
My brick home is fairly well insulated but I think my windows are the weak spot.
There's a place up the street from me that gets inventory delivered in these heavy wood crates that are made of 1" thick x 5 inch wide rough saw (pine?) boards. They really are 1 to 1.25 inches thick. They have agreed to save them for me but my multimeter came back at 1.5 Megaohms so they are still up around 30% moisture content. Going to have to let them sit for a year I guess.
I'm wondering how much wood I'm going to burn and how much the pine boards will help offset the wood volume I need to collect.
Thanks,