I get home from work today; it's 58 degrees outside, 68 in our house, and the pellet stove is burning. The kids are home from college and they were apparently cold. I turned it off. Right now it's 50 degrees outside and 67 degrees in, and the husband wants to know if I'm going to start the stove. No. We've turned into a family of wimps. Seriously though, the really low burn dirties up the stove way too much. I'm looking forward to consistently cold weather so I can just turn the thing on and forget about it.