50F Outside @ 8:30 PM .... The PE Is Cold....

[Dix]

I can't justify it

Oil tank is full, if it needs to kick on, it can kick on.

Lows of 40F - 45F here in the Hollow overnight.

 

[begreen]

My SIL is complaining it's dropped to 38º in Marblehead, MA.

 

[Dix]

It's a far, far cry from 5 years ago, when all I had was the wood stoves, BG. Wayyyyy smarter, older, and way, way, wiser

 

[lsucet]

I have to come up with a heating system as supplement for shoulder seasons.
I want to look into it with plenty of time to make a good decision. Here regardless outside temperatures, if the house feel cool I burn. I go by inside temperatures regardless the outside temperatures.
At least my chimneys draft real good and I am able to burn if needed.

 

[Highbeam]

Still months of burning left.

 

[PaulOinMA]

30s last night. My wife had a work dinner in Boston and was getting home late. Didn't have a fire. Cats not happy.

 

[begreen]

It's a far, far cry from 5 years ago, when all I had was the wood stoves, BG. Wayyyyy smarter, older, and way, way, wiser

Yes, I started doing the math and workload review. We now run the heatpump more. We've still had some morning fires because we are home all day, but the heat pump handles 40º weather easily and cheaply. I was stubborn about wood only heating for many years, but my age and back have made me wiser too.

 

[Manly]

We had been solely wood for 30+ years. A few years ago we installed a small pellet stove in our dining room addition. Pellets have been our shoulder and supplement. They are less work than wood but a fair amount of work just the same. Just don’t like burning oil with forced hot air. I still end up burning about the same amount of cord wood but the house is kept significantly warmer since were both now retired and two new cats demand heat. About 3 cords and 2 tons of quality softwood pellets gets us through to May.

 

[Woody Stover]

I can't justify it

I picked up a PE for my SIL. It's supposed to go low 60s/low 40s for a few days coming up. I have to make sure the stove is safe, so for her sake I can't justify not burning.

 

[Dix]

Yeah, well, I just fired the PE off. 38F outside @ 7 PM

 

[Fod01]

Yeah, well, I just fired the PE off. 38F outside @ 7 PM

44F a few miles away Dix. Stove has been cold for a couple weeks. We use a quartz heater to take the chill out of the living room. It does the job, but I hate that its effect vanishes the second you turn it off.

Gabe

 

[Dix]

44F a few miles away Dix. Stove has been cold for a couple weeks. We use a quartz heater to take the chill out of the living room. It does the job, but I hate that its effect vanishes the second you turn it off.

Gabe

That's bizarre, the temp difference.

 

[Sawset]

The wood cart is stocked next to the stove. Watching the weather. 60deg and sunny, turning to 32 snow, rain and wind makes for a wild ride. A little LP gas, a little electric, probably by morning will need a lot of wood heat.

 

[begreen]

That's bizarre, the temp difference.

Cold slinks into and settles in valleys and hollows.

 

[Woody Stover]

Yeah, well, I just fired the PE off. 38F outside @ 7 PM

Justify and represent, Sistah!

 

[Woody Stover]

Justify and represent, Sistah!

Cold slinks into and settles in valleys and hollows.

There is a low saddle on our drive, between two valleys, about 100 yds. from the house. When conditions are right you can feel the cool air pouring over the saddle.

 

[begreen]

I'm expect Dix has felt plenty of cool air over the saddle too.

 

[Dix]

I'm expect Dix has felt plenty of cool air over the saddle too.

I've had times when the upstairs windows were open, and you can feel the cold air coming into the hollow, and the house temp drops like a rock.

 

[jetsam]

36 here tonight, and I'm just a couple miles from Dix.

I'm still going 24/7, but I switched from 24 hour loads of cordwood to 12 hour loads of pine branches and odds (you get a lot of airspace with all that small/odd stuff).

 

[Highbeam]

36 here tonight, and I'm just a couple miles from Dix.

I'm still going 24/7, but I switched from 24 hour loads of cordwood to 12 hour loads of pine branches and odds (you get a lot of airspace with all that small/odd stuff).

We’ve been burning uglies and partial loads as well. Save the perfectly straight stuff for when you need max fill.

 

[mar13]

I picked up a PE for my SIL. It's supposed to go low 60s/low 40s for a few days coming up. I have to make sure the stove is safe, so for her sake I can't justify not burning

A bit off topic but did you succeed in getting the old series D or is it a new LE?

 

[FPX Dude]

I turn on the whole house fan, draw in lots of nice cool fresh air, then start a fire...

 

[Woody Stover]

A bit off topic but did you succeed in getting the old series D or is it a new LE?

I got the oldie, but goodie. I had to score some tree guy wood today, but I managed to get her chimney swept. Hoping to get the stove un-crated and connected tomorrow. I may be starting an operations thread soon.

 

[heavy hammer]

I purchased a much larger house a couple of years ago and it has an oil furnace, I was nervous about heating the house through the winter. With having a stove in the basement and an insert on the first floor I realized heating with wood was very easy. The first year I was trying to use as little oil as possible. Over the last three years I use only about a half a tank a year about 100 gallons per heating season for 4000 sq. Each year I have been more apt to letting the furnace run a little and not as concerned a having the fire burn 24/7. I won't lie though the wood heat is very comfortable in the winter, and with the amount of wood I have I'll probably burn for another month or so.

 

[jetsam]

Starting my second fire of the year tonight. Fire's been out for a couple days and the house has been holding 70, but it's going to be in the 30s tonight.

It's been nice not loading the stove, but it sucks to sit down in my chair by the stove in the morning and find that it is no warmer than the rest of the house...