24 hour burn time

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Wolves1

Minister of Fire
Nov 15, 2014
582
Malverne ny
What do you prefer during the shoulder season 24 hour burn time load at night or the morning?
 
For me is better every night reloads. Cause the hot burn after reload bring the house temp up for the night that 90% of the time is when outside temps drop.
 
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I reload every 24 hours and do it at night since that’s when it’s coldest.
 
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Almost always at night since the temperatures drop at night and normally rise during the day. A morning fire would likely make the house too warm during the day through the shoulder season.
 
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I'm with the night crowd
 
Always at night when running the 24hr schedule.
 
I loaded my stove at 6am yesterday am went to work got home today at 830am still have another 4-5hours to go before reload temp is 39 out. I am usually a night guy except for when I go into work as I would not be home.
 
i load my 24 hour burns every 24 hours, 3 times a day :)
 
I’ve been loading each evening, when I get home from work. When it gets even warmer, I can stretch these stoves to 36 hours on a load of oak, but then just load every second evening.
 
When it's warmer, and I had smaller stoves, I could not do one load a day.

Since getting the PE summit, heating from basement in a well insulated home, when we got a few days of warmer temps, I loaded totally full in the morning, even doing a small hot reload, to heat up the house to about 24deg C. Tapering down during the evening to only coals, and the night only on the declining heat, I would wake up 24 hours later to a not-so-bad 19deg C house ready to start another big fire. reason for morning load is we like to sleep cold and having a warm house when getting back from work. Though it really helps that I work on the evening shift for the morning heat build-up.

I'll be honest, I thought to myself I had a genius idea to do a one BIG load a day instead of 2 for warmer temps, guess I was not the first to think of it.