As I'm about a little over my first year of burning wood in my NC-13. I'm really digging it. But the learning curve has been interesting. This weekend is our first good cold snap of the season. I loaded the stove good yesterday morning, in preparations for the dropping temperatures. It was still about 70 degress in the house when I got home last night. Filled it up three time before I went to bed at about 11 oclock at which it was 74 degrees in the house and 9 degrees outside. Woke up at 6:30 with temps in the house around 57 degrees and 5 degrees outside. Its now about 9 am and already about 69 degrees in the house. Its suppose to get colder tonight, drop down to about 3 degrees on a clear night. But whats interesting as I started warming up the house, even with it being in the 60's it felt so much warmer, never would have felt the same with the forced air heater. But a couple things I've learned from this fall when the temperatures dipped down is , its hard to play catch up with the wood heat, as long as your ahead of the game, the NC-13 does alright. It just needs a little more attention every 3-4 hours on maximizing the temperature, at temperatures below 15 degrees. So far this year I've only fire the heater once just to make sure it still runs, will probably do it another time before the end of the year. The only question is do I move on up to a NC-30 or stay with what I have. We usually get cold snaps like this periodically through the year maybe like a total of 3 weeks worth and just fight through it. Things to ponder. But right now I'll go back to enjoying the wood heat. Awwwww. :lol: