Anyone else still burning wood this season?

Cast Iron said:

No "thermostat" or Nest. Never stop burning.
65 F does not exist with no furnace.

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English please. Unless I missed something from pages ago.....

Coldest room is the kitchen ,north side of the house. I just turn the oven on and open the door. WIthin 10 minutes the room has gained 10 degrees ,enough to make it comfortable. I consider it "zoned electric heat" . Great for the shoulder season.

Our kitchen is usually the warmest. SW corner with lots of windows. This time of year though the sun doesn't reach in very far at all, the eaves cut it off. Which is usually good this time of the year. But not this year so far.

Our coldest is the living room, where we hang out in the evenings for some mindless unwinding in front of the TV. Also usually good in the summer. But summer hasn't hit yet.

Some mini-split action is looking more appealing every year...

A plugin electric heater, preferably a radiant type does a great job in one room. Like a living room. I completely eliminated the baseboard in our (large) bathroom and installed a double radiant heatlamp fixture in the ceiling. Since i was remodeling and didnt like the look of the baseboard finned heat.Its 500 watts and warms the bathroom the instant you switch it on. I like the bathroom at least 75 or more. I Dont miss the baseboard at all.

Burned Monday and Tuesday. Would have last night and tonight but I worked late and was spent.

Next week we are looking at overnight temps in the mid 40s! Tourist season here hasn’t fully kicked off yet, but I can just imagine what they would say about that!

So yeah I am sure I’ll be burning again.

Diabel said:

English please. Unless I missed something from pages ago.....

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No "thermostat" or Nest. Never stop burning.
65 F does not exist with no furnace.

You are correct, this was not bright or proper English. Strunk & White would be perplexed.
Translation:
Like many here, we have no central heating such as mini splits or furnaces, therefore there are no thermostats set at about 65 F.
Since there is no need for AC or central heat, wood stoves are used year-round. There are some days in Summer with temps in the 50's, damp and often chilly. So we never "stop burning", but there is a usual hiatus in Summer .
Thx Diablel.

June 10. Had to start a small fire .Cant get used to 60s in the house after 75-77 all winter. Dont remember ever running the stove in June before. 50s overnight

We've had a fire every other day, still going. Next week, highs of 16c, I bet we'll still be burning...

Burning still. House hangs at 65 if I don’t and that’s not acceptable. 75 feels way better. Even the black pug is happier.

Still burning. Loving it.

What's a "heat factor" Bart ? Maybe the reverse of windchill.

We have a small fire pit we use on weekend evenings. Keeps the mosquitoes down and always love an open flame. Firewood is getting tighter in our area so we burn the fire pit a bit less.

begreen said:

Not allowed here during burn bans. This year the fire danger is going to be exceptionally high due to lack of meaningful rainfall since mid-April. Our lawns are already going brown. Looks and feels like August.

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That is a bad situation. That is one good aspect of living in the NE, there are plenty of water sources and it rains pretty frequently. We seldom have dry stretches and they don't last long if we do.

Cast Iron said:

No "thermostat" or Nest. Never stop burning.
65 F does not exist with no furnace.

You are correct, this was not bright or proper English. Strunk & White would be perplexed.
Translation:
Like many here, we have no central heating such as mini splits or furnaces, therefore there are no thermostats set at about 65 F.
Since there is no need for AC or central heat, wood stoves are used year-round. There are some days in Summer with temps in the 50's, damp and often chilly. So we never "stop burning", but there is a usual hiatus in Summer .
Thx Diablel.

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Where are you roughly located in Maine if tou don't mind me asking?

begreen said:

Not allowed here during burn bans. This year the fire danger is going to be exceptionally high due to lack of meaningful rainfall since mid-April. Our lawns are already going brown. Looks and feels like August.

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In the 1800's the great explorer John Wesley Powell wrote about the east west division of climate between environments actusally predicting the Dust Bowl of the 30's. With Climate Change due to fossil burning/ greenhouse gases once again the West is experiencing drought and fire.
There are some books written about the 30's Dust Bowl that are strangely applicable to now. In the East there is usually more humidity, more moisture than west of what Powell defined as the "100th meridian" or longitude for you geographers.
This should be interesting for Begreen and others west of the 100th. Be careful out there.

P.S. No fire pits out here used or otherwise.

In Vermont, not Maine.

begreen said:

This is unusual and will turn out to be a drought year if things don't change. This is after two exceptionally dry summers. Trees are suffering and will be tinder dry this year and some springs are starting to lose flow. The irony is that the first two weeks in April were much wetter than normal.

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It's the reason my neighbours are going to keep me in firewood for a long time to come.

Being Im new here and all....can I ask what the heck is "shoulder season"?