Last night it was about 72F outside but a bit cooler inside so my wife asked me to build a fire. Within 10 minutes I had a roaring fire that we enjoyed for several hours. The stove room stayed cool for about the 30 min it took before the stove thermostat activated the fan and thereafter it warmed up nicely. When I went to bed 2 hrs later, the stove room was toasty but, because I didn't use the high fan setting and because I didn't bring on the furnace fan to circulate heat, the bedrooms stayed nice and cool for sleeping. BTW...the stove drafted very well (6" ss liner with 1/2" insulation). Anyone else burn during the summer?
Anybody else burn during the summer?
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No better way to take the chill and moisture out of the air on a cold, wet day, especially up here in the mountains. I think the main thing stopping some people is that they don't have any dry wood left over.
Yup, I'm still burning about 4 splits a night. Start it about 6pm, it's out by about 10pm, and just warms up the first floor for the night. With all this rain, it's nice to take the chill off.
We'll still be burning occasionally on cool nights. The stove becomes our fireplace and keeps the old bones happy.
Yeah, we never even had dry wood ready by summertime. I (Dad) consistently tend to run out before the real heating season even ends and end up dipping into next years not-completely-dry supply. Actually in the summertime, the dehumidifier running downstairs usually keeps the chill out. Then it gets really hot and we don't run it much to keep the basement temperature around 65 degrees no matter what the outside temperature. Gotta love basements completely under grade.
I just installed a new stove so I had to test it, even though I had to sleep with the bedroom window open. Even when it's real hot, we still have Bonn fires.
Still burning every day. I wish it was optional since I am running low on wood again. We have cut back to one good fire in the morning and one at night. I also let the fire die early enough to save the nice high indoor temps for awake hours. A nice hot spring day is 65 degrees outside so that means it is always cool enough for a fire inside.
Still burning on those damp, cool nights-ambient temp around 5*C.No dry hardwood ready; burning pallets,softwood slabs-last night I burnt some blocks of pressboard(looks like compressd sawdust) from the base of a pallet.Nice slow heat, hardly any ash:Hillbilly Bio-Bricks?
Well... its not quite summer yet, but its still chilly enough outside that I lit the stove just now. It won't be long before it goes into its summer hibernation, I hope.
We don't burn the pellet stove in the summer. Generally stop around June and don't begin again until October, but we do burn fires in our firepit outside during the summer. We have a tendency of not really being in the house in the summer unless its raining. Nothing nicer then a small fire in the firepit, torches burning all around,pond lights are on.....trickling of the water....nice ambiance.
Its pallet burning time here, I have some dry wood left but pallets keep the boiler off. I may need real wood later this week, forecast low 30's Thursday, Friday and Saturday night.
Pallets sure get the stove to temp quick too.
Pallets sure get the stove to temp quick too.
Well if you call April in NH "summer" hell yeah, I burn. Recently have had a small fire just about every morning and many eves too. 5 day forcast looks like we'll still have at least AM fires. Now about mid to end of May when we start regularly getting up to 70 daytime or better, problably that will be the end til fall. I do remember one 4th of July about 12-14 years ago when the high temp was 55, and it was raining all day. Maybe that would require a fire. I wasn't burning wood then.
My stove hasn't been on for about a week or so.
I have a ton of pellets left so if I need heat I will
fire it up. House has been hovering about 68F
with no heat source turned on at all.
I have a ton of pellets left so if I need heat I will
fire it up. House has been hovering about 68F
with no heat source turned on at all.
Intermittent burning if we are feeling cold right now, hopefully we will stop within a few weeks as I'd like to get the woodshed bay that we have started burning out of filled back in again, but that will make it hard to access our remaining supply of dry wood. (about 1.5 cords)
Gooserider
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I didn't need to the last couple of summers (record heat), but 3 summers ago it was unseasonably cold even for the UP, lots of low-mid 40's at night, low 60's in the day, and I burned quite often. It was wonderful. (I hate hot weather.)
No chance I'll ever burn a fire during a MD summer though. A/C goes on in may most years, and stays mostly on until september-october. I'm 99.99% sure I'm done burning for the season.
No chance I'll ever burn a fire during a MD summer though. A/C goes on in may most years, and stays mostly on until september-october. I'm 99.99% sure I'm done burning for the season.
DiscoInferno said:
That's the deal here too.
So to answer the OP's titled
question: Never run the stove
in the Summer. It's way too
freakin hot here to do that.
I don't use my wood stove in the summer months, but I do have a nice fire-pit that I use to make bonfires during the summer weekends.
Here in nature's own refrigerator we still run the corn stove nearly every evening. It usually goes that way until mid May and even then its cool enough on some summer nights that a couple hours is needed to drive off the dampness. Come September it escalates back the other way.
We are burning, last year went into June...small hardwoods and big poplar pieces for the start stop cycles...last couple days have been running straight through..
And the laptop with the wireless link.... ;-)Mrs-GVA said:
No just kidding...
Yep it's only a matter of time before I gotta start filling the hopper with crushed ice (cubes jam the auger) to keep the house cool in the summer.
Sorry wrong thread :cheese:
...Ahhh Sore Subject.
Last year "the fire went out" on June 19th...Because the first part of June was "Rather Chilly Most nights". My "stove" is a boiler...and it is "outside" but it's NOT an OWB for "all intents and purposes". Most burning firepits will burn more wood than my boiler...but it does what I need and want it to do: Make DHW, make heat, and keep the basement DRY and WARM.
But alas..."The Lynch-Mob mentality prevails...". Thanks to the newly enacted rules and regs here...even though I could LEGALLY build a bonfire in the backyard...I can't build a fire in the box from May 15th to Sept 15th...
YUP!...Gotta love them huge barn style OWB's for wrecking it "for everyone".
Well maybe not everyone..."but it puts the screws to me".
I could have run past June 19th...but I didn't want to "add fuel to the fire", risk having the neighbors in an up-roar...etc. etc..."Tried to do the RIGHT THING" so to speak. Looking back?? Should I have said "The hell with it"???
Interesting perspective if you ask me..."Ever wonder why OWB owners' are the 'way they are'"??? Definately an 'eye opener'.
Nice HUH???
Last year "the fire went out" on June 19th...Because the first part of June was "Rather Chilly Most nights". My "stove" is a boiler...and it is "outside" but it's NOT an OWB for "all intents and purposes". Most burning firepits will burn more wood than my boiler...but it does what I need and want it to do: Make DHW, make heat, and keep the basement DRY and WARM.
But alas..."The Lynch-Mob mentality prevails...". Thanks to the newly enacted rules and regs here...even though I could LEGALLY build a bonfire in the backyard...I can't build a fire in the box from May 15th to Sept 15th...
YUP!...Gotta love them huge barn style OWB's for wrecking it "for everyone".
Well maybe not everyone..."but it puts the screws to me".
I could have run past June 19th...but I didn't want to "add fuel to the fire", risk having the neighbors in an up-roar...etc. etc..."Tried to do the RIGHT THING" so to speak. Looking back?? Should I have said "The hell with it"???
Interesting perspective if you ask me..."Ever wonder why OWB owners' are the 'way they are'"??? Definately an 'eye opener'.
Nice HUH???
Hi guys,
Yep, upstate NY still burning every night. Small fire from 8 PM to 11PM. Then I close the air inlet and let it die. Enough to survive through the next day.
This is also the first year I had enough wood to last all winter burning 24/7 and have wood left (1/2 face cord). But then again, last october I thought I had enough wood for 2 years. WRONG.
Anyway, I am already at 75% of last years pile sitting there drying for 2007/2008 season. Things are looking good. Also, I got a tree from my neighbors that is half cut up and removed. The other half will fill me up to 100% capacity. And my other neighbor said he is having 4 trees removed professionally and they will leave all logs (cut to 20" per my request) for me to collect. Next door. How easy is that???? I need to collect more pallets to stack all the new wood on. Life is good.
Carpniels
Yep, upstate NY still burning every night. Small fire from 8 PM to 11PM. Then I close the air inlet and let it die. Enough to survive through the next day.
This is also the first year I had enough wood to last all winter burning 24/7 and have wood left (1/2 face cord). But then again, last october I thought I had enough wood for 2 years. WRONG.
Anyway, I am already at 75% of last years pile sitting there drying for 2007/2008 season. Things are looking good. Also, I got a tree from my neighbors that is half cut up and removed. The other half will fill me up to 100% capacity. And my other neighbor said he is having 4 trees removed professionally and they will leave all logs (cut to 20" per my request) for me to collect. Next door. How easy is that???? I need to collect more pallets to stack all the new wood on. Life is good.
Carpniels
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