Over night house temp

[Woodsplitter67]

Last weekend it was colder for us and so is this weekend.
Last Saturday morning it went down to 13 degrees. I woke up 6am from doing my overnight burn and the house temp was 67 degrees. The house temp when i went to bed was 70 degrees.

I load the stove up at 8pm engage the cat and turn it all the way down.

This morning the house temp was 66 degrees. Last night it got down to 20 degrees but had a 30 mph wind going on. House temp was 69 degrees when i went to bed.
I do my best to keep the house during the day 70 to 72... i cant take the house past 74.

So what are your temps in the morning after your over night burn. What is the house temp when you shut the stove down for the night.
Just the stove, no additional help from other sources
Just curious of what everyone else's experiences are.

 

[Ctwoodtick]

Last night got to 13 degrees here. House temp 73 when I went to bed, 65 when I got up. Very cold and windy. Sounds like you get a good even heat.

 

[RandyBoBandy]

Depending on how tight I pack the stove up for the night depends on what I have in the morning. Last night I packed the stove pretty good at 9:30. It was cold out (below 20). 73 when I went to bed and 70 when I woke up. Cat peaked at 1379*

 

[tpenny67]

Good question! Insulation and house size has a lot to do with this. A large well insulated house will maintain a comfortable temperature overnight without a heat source in all but the coldest weather. A small uninsulated cabin will drop 10s of degrees in a few hours when the fire burns out.

Our weekend getaway in VT is somewhere in between. In very cold weather the stove has trouble keeping the place at 60 degrees during the day, but does limit the tendency for the temperature to plummet overnight. Without the stove going, the very loud furnace which is right below the only bedroom will cycle on and off a couple times an hour. With the stove burning, the furnace will only come on a few times a night. It probably won't come on at all in milder weather, but it seems most weekend nights are below 0 up there, including this one. Brr.

 

[Nick Mystic]

We have a two story log home with a 16' ceiling in the living room and a wall of glass looking out at the mountains. When overnight temperatures are in the 30s we usually experience about a six degree temperature drop overnight from whatever the room temperature might be when I turn in around midnight.

 

[lopiliberty]

Depending on how cold the night is going to be I might load the stove between 8 and 9 or if its going to be cold I will wait till 11 or so. When I load the stove for the night the house temps are usually low to mid 80s. Unless it gets below 0 the house usually never drops below 78.

 

[Sconnie Burner]

I can maintain 70-73 degrees around the clock in single digit overnights with mid 20 day time temps. Negative digits leaves me 68ish in the mornings. 2 loads a day in the Ideal Steel heating about 3100 sq ft of brand new construction. I'll take it, thinking I was going to have to depend on the NG furnace for the early morning hours. I attribute it to good insulation and outstanding air sealing by my builder. Every hole penetration between ceiling and attic, and basement floor truss cavity got a shot of expanding foam around pipes/wires. Every outside edge of the interior vapor barrier got a strip of gooey calk to air seal it as well. I was thoroughly impressed watching the build as it went. And can only guess it made a major improvement on being able to heat with only the stove, strategicly placed fans, and also running the central heating circulation fan when its really cold.

 

[begreen]

I like it cooler at night and shoot for about 63-65 in the bedroom upstairs. Downstairs may drop to 65-67F. Not always successful, particularly in milder weather. If the bedroom is 70F I just sleep with a sheet and no blankets.

 

[cookin2night]

75 when I go to bed. 69 when I wake up when it's in the teens. I have a 2700 square foot center hall colonial with a stove on one side and an insert on the other. Very well insulated but a lot of windows.

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[dh1989]

Usually keep things around 70-73F and let it burn down overnight for the morning reload. When I come home (third shift) the house is usually around the mid 60s with some hot coals left. 1350 sqft raised ranch with the stove in the middle of the upper floor. Temp. spread between the stove area and the far end bedrooms is usually within 5 degrees.

 

[trailblaster]

We have a modern colonial 2500sqft and run an Enviro Kodiak 1700 in very windy central new Hampshire. We heat about 70%wood stove insert /30% propane furnace. This last weekend I ran out of propane which supplements heating when stove dies down in the early morning so instead of paying an emergency fill fee for propane, I ran the insert hard. I kept the air intake at 3/4 out and loaded it every 4 hours. Downstairs was 74-78 degrees/ upstairs was 64-70 degrees. Outside during the day was in the high teens and near zero at night. I long as I kept loading it through out the night, it kept up the house temps. Usually, I'll load it up, around 9pm, damper it down and the heat (furnace) will kick on around 3-4 am when upstairs falls below 63 and outside is near or above freezing mark. The house is well insulated but not the best floorplan for moving stove hot air.

 

[shoot-straight]

New construction 2200 or so. My builder was terrible. 6" walls but Lots of air leaks. Most are really tough to get to now. I already picked a lot of the low hanging fruit. It's a cape cod, which if not done right are very ineficient. I have vaulted ceilings to boot. I live in the open, the wind kills me. Literally.

On average I get by on 2.5 loads a day when it's cold. The .5 load goes in after work, then reload before going to bed and before work.

Stove room is anywhere from 70-73 at bedtime. 68 or so in am.

I have a bk ashford.

 

[Tar12]

I can take the house temp up to 80 pretty easy but try and maintain 73-75 through the day...over night temps will avg. out at 70-72

 

[Dakotas Dad]

If it's above single digits, we will usually load about 10pm, house about 70-72, usually the same at 8 when I get up.. if windy, we may drop to 68. Heat pump takes over at 66, very rarely does it come on, needs to be single digits and windy to loose that much.

 

[fishki]

Low 30's outside, 65 when i woke up today because I fell asleep on the couch watching tv and didn't load the stove, woke up in the middle of the night and was just like screw it, I'm comfy, and went back to sleep

 

[HisTreeNut]

Overnight...I load the stove up because we are not in there. The temp pushes into the low 80's...about 82 usually. The kiddos get up in the morning to start school, stir up the coals, and when the wifey or I reload a little while later, it is in the low 70's. This is typical NC mountain weather in the 30's & low 40's. If it is below 30 or very windy, I will get up around 5:00 am to reload the stove a bit so the kiddos get up to a toasty warm house.

 

[Dobish]

depends on the room... but here is our breakdown. Stoveroom is downstairs, bedroom is on far end of house, around 3 corners. Upstairs is up a set of stairs, adjacent to the stove room. Ceiling fan running backwards upstairs.This also is to imply that the stove has been running all day, and is at standard operating temps. if i just get a quick fire going to take the chill off, temps drop faster.

Shut Down @ roughly 11pm:
Upstairs: 66
Stove room: 73
bedroom: 61

Wake up@ roughly 7am
Upstairs: 63
stove room: 65
bedroom: 61

 

[RandyBoBandy]

New construction 2200 or so. My builder was terrible. 6" walls but Lots of air leaks. Most are really tough to get to now. I already picked a lot of the low hanging fruit. It's a cape cod, which if not done right are very ineficient. I have vaulted ceilings to boot. I live in the open, the wind kills me. Literally.

On average I get by on 2.5 loads a day when it's cold. The .5 load goes in after work, then reload before going to bed and before work.

Stove room is anywhere from 70-73 at bedtime. 68 or so in am.

I have a bk ashford.

For a "leaky house" to only loose 3-5 degrees over night is not bad at all. IMO

 

[sportbikerider78]

When the temps are below 20F, my 68F house temp will drop to 60-62 overnight. Thats a bit chilly for me, so I use the oil baseboard heating.

I toss 3-4 splits on at 6am and run it wide open to get the temps up. Then kill the boiler for the rest of the day.

When the temps are <15F, it is nearly impossible to get the indoor temp over 70F. I'm in a ranch with high ceilings, so I'm pushing heat sideways instead of up.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

Must be getting old this year we shoot for 80 degrees in every room except bedroom 76 in there. 3000SF house on 3 floors

 

[Dobish]

Must be getting old this year we shoot for 80 degrees in every room except bedroom 76 in there. 3000SF house on 3 floors

i would be in a puddle on the floor... even at 72 i'm in shorts at home

 

[beardley]

When I'm burning solid, which is when the highs are below 30, I shoot for low 70s. I'll normally go to bed around 72 and wake up in that neighborhood. When it's above 30, it can get a little tricky as I may start a fire around 5pm, and its gone cold before the 5am reload.

The stove is dead center in the house, so the heat is fairly evenly spread. The nice thing, which really helps the temp swings is the huge plaster mass. The exterior walls are coated in about an 1 1/2" of plaster, which really takes in a lot of heat and radiates it back slowly. Between that and the soapstone, its a really cozy place to live.

 

[quotejso]

Lately the hedge is slow to catch so it has actually been warmer when I wake in the morning. I don't know what happens overnight, but the stove is black no signs of life when I call it a night.

 

[Seasoned Oak]

i would be in a puddle on the floor... even at 72 i'm in shorts at home

Worst part is were too hot at about 82 and up. Stove room (finished basement)is always 90 or above.

 

[RandyBoBandy]

Worst part is were too hot at about 82 and up. Stove room (finished basement)is always 90 or above.

Holy smokes that's warm.