Cold outside. Thank god for wood heat

[KDMANN]

Haven't heard the furnace run for over a month now. Zero propane usage ( I'm lovin that). My old Aunt Sarah is keeping the house at a minimum of 70. I am using more wood the last 3 days however. They're talking rain friday night..LOL

 

[BobUrban]

house is staying plenty warm but I have run the furnace a little over the past couple days with the vents in the basement open. Don't want to offset my saving with a bill from the plumber!!

 

[Dustin92]

It got down to -16 here last night, but no wood burning here We had a snow storm with 17" in 24 hours, and all the wood is soaked and buried. The furnace is set at 75 and is barely keeping up 68 ! If it ever warms up we will most likely dig out the wood piles and haul some inside to thaw, but with windchills of -40 last night and -20 today, I'm staying inside.

 

[Swedishchef]

AHaha. When I read the title of this post I thought it meant Canadians

Cold weather: the only thing Canada can't get from the US.

 

[Smoke Signals]

-17 Sunday night. Think we are around zero now. Nice and toasty inside.

 

[lazeedan]

-5 right now and 82 in the house. Wife let me know it was getting a little warm.

 

[DiscoInferno]

house is staying plenty warm but I have run the furnace a little over the past couple days with the vents in the basement open. Don't want to offset my saving with a bill from the plumber!!

I found that just running the furnace fan circulated enough woodstove-heated air from the upstairs to keep my (insulated) basement comfortably above freezing. (But not comfortable.)

 

[DaHole]

I had -20f the last two days. On Monday I saw a high of -12f. My little stove has been cranked and we are still nice and warm. We like 70f upstairs so the basement gets about 85- 90f. I only have gravity feed for the whole house. It was so cold my wine in the breezeway froze.

 

[Charles1981]

we are doing ok considering -30 windchill and n-10 outside. heating 1900 sqft fromt the basement. we sleep in basement so all is well..about80 down here (usually 90). upstairs however is only reaching 65 (59 when waking up in mornings) and i cant get it much higher (as long as it is 10-25 and above outside it will stay close to 70 upstairs...) No supplemental heat is being used.

 

[John-Eddie]

Not as bad here as the midwest right now... 5 degrees, -7 windchill at the moment. Holding 70 no problem. 68 was hard to hang on to earlier in the week when it was -35 though.

-JE

 

[jhousek1]

So with all of the LOWWWW temps up north I am wondering how you guys are making out and the stoves are performing? Any Buck stove owners?

5 degrees here and I am up early to reload.........falls below 70 inside when the blower goes off but then again its only an insert. Plenty of hardwood on hand so keep it coming I got it covered

 

[SKIN052]

Been a very cold winter and the whole Island just went through a weekend without power. Still having rolling power outages due to the high consumption. This little pic has been making it's rounds on social media,

 

[etiger2007]

Its Michigan for ya below zero now then this weekend rain and 40 degrees outside

 

[blades]

Heat wave here only -4 right now, supposed to hit low 30's by Sat. When I'm home i can hold low 70's avg with the nc30

 

[Sully]

Not to bad. Still leaning stove and digging through not ideal splits to find the best. Heater ran for 4 hours midnight to midnight. Not bad for -15 I live with that. Once I'm all settled in and using my own seasoned wood next season I will be hopefully not happy with yesterday's results !

 

[Swedishchef]

Been a very cold winter and the whole Island just went through a weekend without power. Still having rolling power outages due to the high consumption. This little pic has been making it's rounds on social media,

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Keep warm out there! A friend of mine is in Gander and was telling me about your mess.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[aansorge]

I've needed both stoves, but have kept the place in the 70's. definitely a test of the stoves!

I did need to run the furnace yesterday to thaw out my shower's pipes. It turns out that I have a warm air output pipe from the furnace that dumps under my shower to keep the pipes warm. I'll need to run the furnace now and again during really cold weather to prevent further freezing. Shouldn't need to do this except during sub -15 weather.

 

[eclecticcottage]

I did need to run the furnace yesterday to thaw out my shower's pipes. It turns out that I have a warm air output pipe from the furnace that dumps under my shower to keep the pipes warm. I'll need to run the furnace now and again during really cold weather to prevent further freezing. Shouldn't need to do this except during sub -15 weather.

Yeah, we had frozen pipes to our tub/shower yesterday too. For some reason we still have yet to figure out, they ran them in the attic. About 5 minutes with a hair dryer and we were set, when one of us got up to reload the stove we also ran the water last night so that should be set. Insulating those has been added to the springtime weatherization list!!

Might hit 50 this weekend. Crazy. We didn't get any snow, but south of us did. They're calling for possible flooding because of ice jams followed by warmer weather and rain.

 

[Excavator]

I am home for few days in Jersey JUST burning the stove as too cold to work outside in excavating !
I am happy to be working hard near the stove

 

[Mainely Saws]

0 degrees this AM & doing just fine . When we get some really cold temps ( -13 last week ) I close off any rooms that aren't being used & that don't have any plumbing running thorough them . It's times like these that to me, show all of the positives of burning wood , not only do we possibly save some money but we keep a lot warmer & the feeling of security should the power go out is a big deal ................

 

[Jags]

Drove to work in -16F, yet again, this morning. Been darn cold. I think this is the end of the extreme stuff, though. When I am home to run the stove it does a stellar job. Stepping away from it for 10+ hours at a stretch and the furnace needs to be brought into action.

 

[lindnova]

"It's so cold up here that I've got icicles on my chimney cap!" Me too!

-25 Monday morning and -15 for a high with 20 mph winds. That wind was bad. Only -5 this morning feels like a heatwave. I have been filling the outdoor furnace 2 times a day with oak and running the wood stove in the evenings. Coldest for me was starting up the truck outside after work - heated garages are nice.

 

[Coach B]

Well I'm not up north, but it sure has felt like it around here. We didn't make it out of the single digits Monday and got down to -2 yesterday morning. I learned something that I had suspected all along. The Jotul in the living room will not adequately heat the entire downstairs during extreme cold. It kept the central part of the home warm, but the proximity of the Jotul to the OWB thermostat kept the outdoor beast from kicking on enough. Result-the back bedrooms got cold. Wife and kids do not like trying to sleep with indoor temps in the 50s. In the end I let the Jotul go out last night so that the OWB can do some real work.

 

[begreen]

we are doing ok considering -30 windchill and n-10 outside. heating 1900 sqft fromt the basement. we sleep in basement so all is well..about80 down here (usually 90). upstairs however is only reaching 65 (59 when waking up in mornings) and i cant get it much higher (as long as it is 10-25 and above outside it will stay close to 70 upstairs...) No supplemental heat is being used.

To increase heat flow up the stairs, have you tried putting a table fan on the floor at the top of the stairs, pointing down the basement steps and running it on low speed? Blowing cold air down low will increase the flow upstairs at the top of the doorway.

 

[Kevin Dolan]

So with all of the LOWWWW temps up north I am wondering how you guys are making out and the stoves are performing? Any Buck stove owners?

It's cold , it's winter, it's great.