24/7 Train, Who's on board yet?

[adrpga498]

Beginning the Thanksgiving Week, ( happy to you all) I was wondering who is now burning 24/7. Granted, your location and weather is the deciding factor I know. Just making it official I don't plan on lighting another match unless there is some sort of "indian summer" break in the future. Nice fires and good Turkey to you all.

 

[Shane]

I've been burning the pellet stove regularly. It's all I heat with though no base boards come on in this house.

 

[swestall]

I've been 24 in spurts so far, but have yet to get to 7. Wife has all the windows open and thinks I am nuts.

 

[tbl01]

New stove owner 2 days 24 hours. W0rking at the 24/7.

 

[eernest4]

Been running nearly 24/7 for 2 weeks now. I have to feed my beast evey 2 /2.5 hrs
@ 3 hr is dead coals , so today I take 1 day in every 4 to run oil burner and warm up the further reaches of my demises, & also to get 1 good nite's sleep without feeding the baby.
I got neighbors 250 ft from chimney,so I cant shut down primary air & snarfle the flue with the damper & produce a all nite smokey burn; too many complaints. I stuck with fast hot fires until i buy a epa smokeless secondary burn stove.

So far , I put 6 bags of pellets thru my 50,000 btu pellet stove, which is backup for the wood burner, but i dont leave the pellet stove on all nite. Getting about ready to buy & install a thermostat on it so I can run it all nite. 19 times cheaper that a oil burner to run
@ $4.00 /40lb bag of pellets.

 

[DriftWood]

Pulse heating but its got coals 24/7 not fired up hot yet.

 

[ckr74]

I haven't even lit mine this season. I live in Eastern Kansas and it's been really warm. Supposed to change next week though.

 

[Mike Wilson]

Not yet. I will start on or about December 1st, and then run it through 24/7 to the end of February or early March. Right now I am using oil to heat us up in the morning, solar to keep it that way until about 8PM, and then oil for the evening. I burn a cord a month, and have about 3.5 cord lined up and ready to go.

-- Mike

 

[Lignums]

24/7 for the past week. Ash in the morning and afternoon, Locust and Red Oak in the evenings.

 

[Corie]

Mostly evening fires here. We jumped on the 24/7 bandwagon for about two days when it was getting into the 20's at night. With it in the 50's and 60's during the day here, there is NO way I can keep the stove running and expect to not be run out of the house with heat. Plus, I honestly only have a little over 2 cords, so I'm saving it for the REAL cold stuff, now that I got all of the fun "first" stove fires out of the way!

 

[WILDSOURDOUGH]

Been heating for three weeks now- but only running it every second or third day- house gets up to 70, then stays that way for a day- or two.
Temps here are 35-40 in the day, 15-30 at night.

 

[Corey]

I haven't even lit mine this season. I live in Eastern Kansas and it's been really warm. Supposed to change next week though.

Dang - must be able to bear the cold more than me! It's been pretty warm, but I had to light my stove off on some of the chilly nights. But I don't ever go 24/7 - wife and I are both gone during the day, so the fire goes out around 3-4am, we 'coast' on the stored up heat until 8am when we are both gone, then the fire doesn't get re-lit until about 5pm.

 

[Todd]

I've been burning 24/7 for a little over a week now. Highs have been in the 30-40's. Looks like it could get even colder over Thanksgiving this week, maybe even some snow? Have burned almost a half a cord so far this year, a little behind last year. This stove is awesome, still haven't had to clean the glass yet.

 

[Jimbob]

Just 1-2 small fires a day so far, with some fire-free days thrown in. No other heat on, except a basebord in our bedroom that comes on for an hour each morning to cook us out of bed.

 

[stuart]

my pellet runs from 6:00pm till 8:00 am furnce on 50 during the day when at work

 

[wg_bent]

so far I've done a couple 24/7s, but this past week it got warm out so it needed a re-lite. Went thought about 1/3 of a cord so far, but it's my junk and odd shape pile. Next I dig into the pine and punky oak pile.

34 out now, 72 in the dining room, 70 in the kitchen, 75 in the LR. and 68 in the basement.. whew.. a place to retreat to when I need to escape the LR. Couldn't be happier.

 

[reaperman]

Only had three fires so far all year. It has to get into the low 20's or teens for me to light-up otherwise it gets just too hot. The highs have been in the 30's lately, so the house just doesnt get very cool. It maintains around 68 and night and low 70's during the day. The basement a bit cooler. No argument here, perfect weather for cutting, splitting, stacking, etc.

 

[derbygreg]

Here in Columbus, OH I have only been able to burn 24/7 for three days. Temps are just too high.

Looking forward to getting it roaring. Last year, I recall keeping it going for 42 days with out having to relight.

 

[BrotherBart]

Only had three fires so far all year. It has to get into the low 20's or teens for me to light-up otherwise it gets just too hot. The highs have been in the 30's lately, so the house just doesnt get very cool. It maintains around 68 and night and low 70's during the day. The basement a bit cooler. No argument here, perfect weather for cutting, splitting, stacking, etc.

What is maintaining that 68 and 70 if you aren't burning? Body heat?

 

[Pine Knot]

Have been 24/7 for several days, but that may end next week. Day temps in the Sixties and nights in the Fifties predicted.

 

[jpl1nh]

24/7 for a couple of weeks now. Haven't lit a match the whole time. Had to coast through on some very small fires and deep bed of ashes a couple of time when it got up into 50's and even 60 briefly. We're on the north side of a steep hill and hardly get any sun from mid Oct to mid Feb. Nice thing about the cat-soapstone, you can run it really low, and you have very little heat spike when you load it, very nice this time of year. Very curious how it will perform in the real cold. Still not burning winter wood, mostly hemlock, punky stuff, some birch, small pieces of red maple, some slightly punky elm.

 

[mayhem]

Been burning 24x7 for probably upwards of a month or more now to keep the boiler off. My wife has Lupus and Raynaud's so she gets mighty cold and sore at what are very comfortable wintertime temperatures for me...our house typically spends most of the winter in or near the low 70's. With the stove running all day between 30-440 stovetop temperature I can keep my front room at about 80-82 and the rest of the house sits in the upper 60's to low 70's, depending on airflow (log cabin with a great room taking up about 3/5 of the entire internal volume).

I can't seem to get the warm air down the 1st floor hallway efficiently enough to keep the back bedroom warm and keep the oil burner off, even with a pair of ceiling fans running in the great room...maybe an ecofan or similar would help since the stove is right near the entrance to the hallway.

Fortunately for me the house is on 5 zones so I can run one area for heat and not anyhting else, which helps save me some oil.

 

[babalu87]

Pretty rarefor us to burn 24/7
The back of the house has most of the windows and it faces South so its passive solar with any sun at all. My boiler doesnt run for heat but more often thatn not we have to let the firs go out.

Mayhem, do you have a floor plan sketched up? Maybe we cna help you with air flow.

 

[Eric Johnson]

Been doing that for awhile.

 

[mayhem]

Pretty rarefor us to burn 24/7

Mayhem, do you have a floor plan sketched up? Maybe we cna help you with air flow.

Not yet, but I need to make one up. I have the original construction blueprints, have to see if I can photoreduce them and then scan them in.

The biggest problem for me is that the front of the house is a 26' tall wall of glass (see avatar). No matter how well I seal thos windows they'll always leak alot more heat out than the logs. That and the extremely high ceilings and you've got a tremendous heatsink thats full of hat I cannot use efficiently. I've ben playing with the fans in different modes, but haven't hit the magic combination yet.