Cold house this am

[jbest1]

Woke up(later than normal) this morning to the kids complaining it was cold in the house. So I go downstairs and the stove is not running, completely cold. My first thought is WTH. Its showing a error code, so I go look that up before I start cleaning it and get it going. Well amazingly a pellet stove needs pellets to work. Oops I was so tired last night I forgot to check the pellets before I went to bed. So today there was a lesson for the oldest child about how to check the pellets and fill the hopper. Just real glad it was a stupid mistake and nothing major. Now on to the Christmas lights outside.

 

[TimfromMA]

Im almost OCD about filling the stove. I will top it off multiple times per day even if its not needed. If I happen to wake up in the middle of the night, Ill fill it then too.

 

[LMPS]

Been there done that.... did it once this year already. It will not be the last either. I feel better now that I have publicly confessed...thanks

 

[DrewBoogie]

Happens to the best of us

 

[bags]

I have done that too. My wife and kids also got a Hopper lesson 101. I had fallen asleep on the couch and they all had left me there and went to bed the night ours ran out but the house was not real cold but the stove had been off for who knows how long.

I now make it a routine habit to feed it some pellets and top the hopper off before bed whether it needs them or not.

 

[alternativeheat]

Im almost OCD about filling the stove. I will top it off multiple times per day even if its not needed. If I happen to wake up in the middle of the night, Ill fill it then too.

Tim ? Almost OCD ? No, you are OCD about filling your pellet stove!

 

[TimfromMA]

Tim ? Almost OCD ? No, you are OCD about filling your pellet stove!

Im never cold though.

 

[johnny1720]

I had my pellet stove on medium Thursday night. It was doing such a nice job I turned the furnace off that evening. The outside temp dropped from 35 to 21 with wind. I woke up to a 60 degree house. I really need a thermostat.

 

[John Fortier]

Don't ever feel bad Tim...I do the same thing

 

[joed2323]

I end up shutting my stove off at like 3-4am cuz its to hot in the house aKA DADDY is too hot.. then about 5am momma says shes too cold, never fails

 

[Chrisnow86]

I'm the opposite I drive my wife nuts Without a wood stove to maintain I'm like a lost puppy constantly checking the hopper lol

 

[joed2323]

I almost think pellet stoves are more comfortable versus wood stoves unless of course you pull wood off.your own land... I do not.want to start a debate. Wrong words my friends. Heat on my friends

 

[Chrisnow86]

I have 15 acres and cut my own wood and after burning 9 cord every winter for the last 8 years I was ready to just pay out in pellets lol i will say I miss going out in the woods with my farmall H and my husky and skidding trees..

 

[joed2323]

I have 15 acres and cut my own wood and after burning 9 cord every winter for the last 8 years I was ready to just pay out in pellets lol i will say I miss going out in the woods with my farmall H and my husky and skidding trees..

I bet you do Chris...

But when the wood runs out pellets are the next best thing and are very eficent. Go to Menard's and see how much a bundle off wood gets you for 5$+/versus a bag of wood pellets

 

[Chrisnow86]

I don't miss out side before a blizzard coming outside splitting and stacking wood till 10 o'clock at night getting ready just to get called out to go plowing at 11 for 30 hours straight... I really won't miss that at all

 

[joed2323]

I don't miss out side before a blizzard coming outside splitting and stacking wood till 10 o'clock at night getting ready just to get called out to go plowing at 11 for 30 hours straight... I really won't miss that at all

Jeez... You sound like my old boss out plowing from after the snow flies till 6am... Lol. I bet u have a v-plow otherwise I give u probs.

 

[Chrisnow86]

Last year I was in a Mack with 11ft plow and a sander... This year I have a ford L 9000 with a 8 yard sander and a wing plow

 

[Lake Girl]

Woke up(later than normal) this morning to the kids complaining it was cold in the house. So I go downstairs and the stove is not running, completely cold. My first thought is WTH. Its showing a error code, so I go look that up before I start cleaning it and get it going. Well amazingly a pellet stove needs pellets to work. Oops I was so tired last night I forgot to check the pellets before I went to bed. So today there was a lesson for the oldest child about how to check the pellets and fill the hopper. Just real glad it was a stupid mistake and nothing major. Now on to the Christmas lights outside.

Don't feel bad ... no one in my house even thinks to check the pellet stove... except me. Haven't forgotten to top off in a while and hopefully won't

Out checking christmas lights today ... just coloured rope lights as I never have much luck with any of the other ones.

 

[alternativeheat]

Don't feel bad ... no one in my house even thinks to check the pellet stove... except me. Haven't forgotten to top off in a while and hopefully won't

Out checking christmas lights today ... just coloured rope lights as I never have much luck with any of the other ones.

We went from lights all over the front of the house to a candle in each window and a lit up wreath on the front door. Place the Christmas tree in a front window. Much easier, looks good to me, more Christmas card-ish. Especially after a snow. Anyway, when the step son lived here my wife and him did the big light show. If she wants the lights back up again she can call him over to hang them up and that isn't happening since he went to work for CSX railroad. As for me , the family took my 28 ft ladder away after I fell off it up near the second story of the house and landed in the mud, squatted and rolled. They figured OK that's it Dad doesn't belong on a ladder anymore I guess. But the ladder evaporated anyway.

 

[Lake Girl]

My comfort level on ladders has dropped as I age ... Lights run just under the deck rails and along the parking area ... no eaves, no windows.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

I had my pellet stove on medium Thursday night. It was doing such a nice job I turned the furnace off that evening. The outside temp dropped from 35 to 21 with wind. I woke up to a 60 degree house. I really need a thermostat.

Nah, the cold will put the spring back into your step on the way to the outside facilities. What's that you say? You has that newfangled indoor stuff and no longer like a cold morning run.

 

[samfatboy]

I put a hopper extension on my Englander 25pdvc and it runs for about 30 hours on a full load, so no more cold mornings.

I like to tinker though, so I clean and fill just about every morning. It is definitely nice not having to get up at 5:30 am to refill the wood burner.

Wood burner in the family room for ambiance and added comfort, and the pellet stove in the living room for convenience and assured warmth. It is a beautiful world.