size of home and average temp of house

[joed2323]

Curious guys on what size house you all are heating and what the average temp is?

I think a lot of it boils down to what type of house setup/layout you all have..

Me im just above 2300 sqft and my house stays nice and warm at above 75-80 and I have ranch style house. I have the stove situated in the middle of my house in the living room and its pretty open in the middle and rooms are to then ends of house...

I've been cycling my furnace fan off and on thru out day and my house stays toasty.

Im just curious what everyone is trying to heat with their stove or stoves?

My backup heat is propane. Would Like to hear what everyone other backup heat is wether its electric heat or coal, etc?

This isnt a post about my stove is better then yours since I prob have the lowest line stove on market, let's just hope I keep her puuring like a kitten...

Cheers you all, stay warm my friends

 

[claydogg84]

I'm burning wood in a classic raised ranch style home. Stove is in the fireplace in the downstairs family room. Family room is 80-85 while the upstairs hallway is 66-72 depending on the outside temp. Regardless of outside temp the upstairs never goes below 70 if I'm constantly feeding it. I don't use any fans to move the heat either.

 

[joed2323]

I'm burning wood in a classic raised ranch style home. Stove is in the fireplace in the downstairs family room. Family room is 80-85 while the upstairs hallway is 66-72 depending on the outside temp. Regardless of outside temp the upstairs never goes below 70 if I'm constantly feeding it. I don't use any fans to move the heat either.

Awesome claydogg

If I could.have access to wood in western north Dakota I'd prob go that route but out here in the oil fields all we have is fields and oil wells, hence why I went with pellet stove

 

[claydogg84]

Awesome claydogg

If I could.have access to wood in western north Dakota I'd prob go that route but out here in the oil fields all we have is fields and oil wells, hence why I went with pellet stove

Nothing wrong with pellet stoves. Different strokes for different folks. I'm young enough and have the access to plenty of hardwoods so I'd be a fool to not take advantage of it.

 

[joed2323]

Nothing wrong with pellet stoves. Different strokes for different folks. I'm young enough and have the access to plenty of hardwoods so I'd be a fool to not take advantage of it.

Your right
So am i. I use to help cut cords of wood witg my buddy to sale in Michigan, it crazy how things change and ppl move and you adapt. My house back home in Michigan I'd have a tough time deciding in pellet stove or wood furnace since in Michigan wood is a plenty and in north Dakota the state tree is the fence post

 

[bbfarm]

Big 142 yr old 2 story 4 bedroom farm house. I have no idea how many square feet.

It's 74 in here

 

[joed2323]

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Big 142 yr old 2 story 4 bedroom farm house. I have no idea how many square feet.

It's 74 in here

Damn brotha, sounds nice and toasty... Two story is a feat with one stove

 

[BrotherBart]

the state tree is the fence post

I have to remember that one. It is a keeper.

 

[joed2323]

I have to remember that one. It is a keeper.

Fence post or telephone pole you pick

 

[BrotherBart]

I am originally from West Texas. Should have thought of that line 40 years ago.

 

[joed2323]

I am originally from West Texas. Should have thought of that line 40 years ago.

My line your line its all good. Thanks my friend
Thought living in upper Michigan was wilderness... Well out in north Dakota, this is a different kind of country, all you see for miles is oil fields and fence posts/mixed in telephone poles. When I go home to visit I'm so facisnated with trees it's rather funny

 

[titanracer]

2012 ranch style manufactured home with 1770 sq. footage. Open concept living area with 3 bedrooms, 3 at one end of house, master on other end. Like I said, living area is open concept. Pellet stove located in family room towards center of home. Keep bedrooms doors shut for cooler comfort during sleeping. Living area at current moment is 81 degrees, stove on manual run, no thermostat hooked up to it and running on lowest setting possible, with somerset pellets. Currently 31 degrees outside.

 

[chriscarl]

I have a raised ranch.Put it up in 1991. 550 sf finished downstairs, where the St.Croix Hastings is parked. Upstairs is about 1575 sf, which is heated by the Cumberland MF3800. I started both stoves on 11/1 and I've used about 22 bags of pellets in total. Downstairs hovers around 71 degrees running the stove on level 3. Upstairs is usually around 70 on level 3. The house is very well insulated and we were toasty in last weeks cold snap. These Presto Logs are awesome.

 

[TimfromMA]

I have a 2400 sqft split entry. The stove is on the upper level so its only heating 1800 sqft. The downstairs is kept at 50 courtesy of the oil furnace.

 

[joed2323]

2012 ranch style manufactured home with 1770 sq. footage. Open concept living area with 3 bedrooms, 3 at one end of house, master on other end. Like I said, living area is open concept. Pellet stove located in family room towards center of home. Keep bedrooms doors shut for cooler comfort during sleeping. Living area at current moment is 81 degrees, stove on manual run, no thermostat hooked up to it and running on lowest setting possible, with somerset pellets. Currently 31 degrees outside.

I like the idea of shutting the doors. At night I have the problem of too warm of bedrooms so I find myself shutting stove Down for a few hours to cool house down but the wife likes it toasty and I like it cool.. Go figure

 

[OhioBurner©]

2400-2700 ish sqft depending on how you count it (living space or actual heating area volume...) built in 1900 and addition in 1990. Drafty and poorly insulated. Heating with pellet stove and Jotul Rockland I suspect will keep the place mostly warm down in single digits, but if its windy its going to struggle even in the teens. With just one stove (either) half the house is going to be cold much under 40 and even the half the stove is in will get cold much under 30 from all the cold air from the other half of the house.

IDK how y'all throw out a number for your house temp. Even the room my stove is in can vary by 10º from one side to another, and then bedrooms and such furthest away could be another 10º lower. Kind of hard to average all that.

I like the idea of shutting the doors. At night I have the problem of too warm of bedrooms so I find myself shutting stove Down for a few hours to cool house down but the wife likes it toasty and I like it cool.. Go figure

Wish I had that problem! I don't think I've ever had to shut a door before because it was too warm, unless I had my stove cranked up when it was 50º out!

 

[Big E]

Small house, no idea sq ft, maybe 1000? Thought it was wood construction, tore down bat and ext. walls are block! Further digging in the town archives, this used to be a garage/gas station (Gulf 1950 -ish). Stove in basement house stays at 70

 

[LordmetalZ28]

1000sqft ranch stove on 1 keeps family room 80. Back of house 74. Super cold nights bump it up to 2 keeps house 74

 

[JTRock]

2100 sq ft Colonial built 1971. I remodeled a bit to open floor plan downstairs.

House usually in the mid 70s. I have both Woodstove insert and Pellet stove. On main floor. I usually run one or the other. Primarily try to run with Wood but if I'm not home I pack the stove and put the pellet on thermostat to 67 for when the wood peters out. Due the same for overnights

 

[scajjr2]

1984 1600 sq ft altered salt-box (small addition, 11x20 added to back of ground floor, rooms enlarged upstairs so no more one long sloping roof, has 2 now added 2005) P43 located just off stairs, mostly open downstairs. P43 in room temp/manual with 3301p thermostat. Set to 70 5-8am, 4-11pm, 65 rest of time M-F, 70 6am-11pm, 65 rest of time Sat & Sun. Ceiling fan and 1 small doorway fan move the air around just fine. Heat flows upstairs easily with the P43 just off the stairwell, creating it's own air flow, no fan needed. Downstairs is 70, upstairs 68-70 when we're up, upstairs stays a nice 65 at night (we like it a bit cool to sleep).

House is well insulated, 1/2 the windows replaced during the addition but I put shrink film on all of them to cut down drafts.P43 is about 5 feet from front door, which doesn't seal too tight but I figure that's it's OAK. And as that's also where the stairs are that helps the draft as it's pulling air across there as the heat rises.

Sam

 

[Watcher1]

Burning corn and a whisper of pellets mixed in. Log cabin 1200sqft My stove is in the basement. Concrete block fill with Styrofoam beads. This is a cabin I built, so full logs but not so big around that we couldn't man handle them. OAK yes and plus the leakage thru the logs LOL. Most of the time house is around 70. The main room is open and is about 1/3rd of the house. We started burning mid oct here. I am thinking I used about 50/70 bu of corn and 16 bags of pellets, 10 of them were before we got this years corn supply.

 

[Dmichigan]

1977 ranch cut up layout, stove in basement runs 70 upstairs 65 in bedrooms and 78 basement 4 cold air returns cut into back bedrooms for air flow. Running a CAB50 still burning random pellets to find the right one.

 

[bugman31964]

Approximately 2300 sqft not including basement. Part of the house is 125+ years old and is bested described as a cape style. When we bought the house 25 years ago we primarily heated with wood stoves 6-7 cord a year always had cool times inside. Added some monitor heaters over the years and insulation, helped with more constant temps. 2007 got rid of field stone foundation (added formed concrete basement) and monitors, eliminated basement wood stove, added oil furnace central heat and modern non-cat wood stove on the ground floor, better more consistant temps, down to 3-4 cord annually. 2014 getting to be too much work feeding wood stove, eliminated, added pellet stove. Keep the house 66-70 during the waking hours and 60-66 at night downstairs, cooler in bedrooms. We like it cool at night and I can't see heating the house to higher than average summer time temps. The furnace quickly brings the house up to temp and the pellet stove easily maintains the temp. Probably burned a little over half a ton of pellets and 25-30 gallons of oil so far.

 

[funflyer]

Wow! some of those temps. Just curious, who uses a humidifier? Our home is 1800 sq ft and before I dug out the humidifer we could stand temps up to 75 but now with it running we have to turn the stove down to the lowest setting when house reaches 72 or it is too warm. Bedroom temps usually stay about 6 degrees lower than the main part of the house.

 

[fireitup]

I'm about 1800sq ft also, house built in 1805! 2 story. Dining room (stove room) 83-85, rest of dowstairs 70-72, entire upstairs (3 BR and bath) 68-70. I have not "cranked" the stove yet, run most days on 2 and go to 3 overnight if below 35 outdoors. I use 3 small doorframe fans downstairs to circle through the first floor. Obviously working pretty well...