The REAL cold is coming this week in the NE...if you haven't cleaned your stove, now's the time!!

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Just took a look at the 10 day forecast for my area (SouthEast NY), and the high temp this week from Wed. to Sat is going to be about 22-23, and the lows at night are going to be 2 degrees on Thurs, 4 degrees on Friday....BRRRRR...

Coldest weather we've seen here since 1991. Get ready to crank those stoves up, and burn some serious pellets! :bug:
 
Hey why don't you keep that cold up there........... :)


It's gonna be in the low teens down here too..........
It's been a wierd winter I had grass seedlings growing in my lawn last 2 weeks.... and the pear tree had some buds on it.....
but on a side note I used to clean the stove based on the weather.........
Good call Macman
Clean the stoves now............
 
GVA said:
Hey why don't you keep that cold up there........... :)

Good call Macman
Clean the stoves now............
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hey GVA, we're friendly folks up here, and we just wanted to share what we have....which right now is a LOT of COLD air....you don't sound too appreciative..... :lol:
 
daytime highs of zero and single digits later in the week here.
 
Due for a 2 week cleanout here. Write it on the calendar
otherwise I'd never remember when the last one was.
Slated for tomorrow.
 
Wednesdays daytime high here is -23 C or -10F and nightimes lows of -31C or -23.8F :bug: and continues on into the weekend. I'll have to change my sig to "3bags a day" :lol:
This weekend was cold here and at 2 1/2 to 3 bags we kept it aound 70 upstairs (MUCH warmer downstairs by the stove).
 
Kimeric,

Are you located near Little Rapids, Wisconsin?
 
I've hit 2 bags a day for my maximum when the temps were in the mid teens, looks like I'll be be seeing if the new max will be 3 bags.
 
I'll second that wish about living in a modern efficient house. When it gets as cold as it is going to get this week, it makes me afraid that one of my water pipes might freeze in the basement. When I was heating with oil, the colder it got, the warmer my basement would get because of all the exposed duct-work in the basement. Now it works in reverse. I just discovered with my Harmon that if I set it to manual I can have my oil furnace come on a couple times a day without it shutting the stove down. I now have the oil furnace come on a couple a times a day for 45 minutes each time. I set the thermostat for 82 degrees, because the T-stat is in the same room as the Harmon, and it has to be set that High to make sure that it will come on. The room is generally around 78-80 degrees. After the furnace runs it drives up the basement temperature from around 44 degrees to 50, which makes me more comfortable not worrying about a water pipe freezing in some cold corner of the cellar.
 
Resops,.........that some serious cold brother!!!
 
Sawduster said:
I'll second that wish about living in a modern efficient house. When it gets as cold as it is going to get this week, it makes me afraid that one of my water pipes might freeze in the basement. When I was heating with oil, the colder it got, the warmer my basement would get because of all the exposed duct-work in the basement. Now it works in reverse. I just discovered with my Harmon that if I set it to manual I can have my oil furnace come on a couple times a day without it shutting the stove down. I now have the oil furnace come on a couple a times a day for 45 minutes each time. I set the thermostat for 82 degrees, because the T-stat is in the same room as the Harmon, and it has to be set that High to make sure that it will come on. The room is generally around 78-80 degrees. After the furnace runs it drives up the basement temperature from around 44 degrees to 50, which makes me more comfortable not worrying about a water pipe freezing in some cold corner of the cellar.
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I got the same jitters. Hate burning the oil, but I kick the furnace on for a while on those bitter days as well.
 
Andrew Churchill said:
Kimeric,

Are you located near Little Rapids, Wisconsin?
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10 miles west of green bay (think theres a football team there?)
 
I was just checking how accurate the website I used to check your GPS coordinates was and it appears to be pretty good!
 
Raven20 said:
Resops,.........that some serious cold brother!!!
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Raven,
It's a tad nippy but it's actually when the stove runs the best...full bore ;-)
Just a little hard on the tonnage
 
I couldn't imagine that cold air....I wouldn't come out of the house!!!
 
And i thought it was Lumber/Oil, oh well is US is gonna **** us of Natural resources might as well have the weather too,we won,t charge extra for that..Lol.. Was minus 30cels here this morn ,not sure what that is F, Glad i saved a Pallet of EnergeX for Jan, burn the Green Heat in Feb/March.Forgot how dirty the EnergeX are though, gotta clean stove every 2 days or Burn pot would be over flowing with Melted Gobs of Ash..Yukk..
 
I spent a few hours today taking apart my Mt Vernon Quadrafire and cleaning everything out. I saw the forecast for the upcoming week and decided it would be best to clean it prior to the real cold weather hitting CT. Man those cast iron plates weigh a bunch and the one surrounding the pellet drop area is a B@T!H getting out!!!!!!!!!
 
I am ready and it's about time we got down to at least 5 or 10 below here in southern NH, you know its cold when the snoogies freeze in your nose,
 
pelletizer said:
I am ready and it's about time we got down to at least 5 or 10 below here in southern NH, you know its cold when the snoogies freeze in your nose,
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Snoogies?????? LMAO

Oh, you mean Snuggies.....oh, no, wait a minute...those are sold on TV.........
 
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