What is Your Outdoor vs Indoor Temp?

[leeave96]

The temperatures have plunged in my neck of the woods and we are cranking the Woodstock Keystone more and more to keep up. Just for kicks, we are trying to hold out as long as possible before turning on the furnance.

In my drafty old house, we are seeing 73 - 75ish temps in the living room where the stove is located with an outdoor temp around 25 degrees.

Not to bad for a small stove and a drafty house.

What kind of temperature difference are you seeing as winter moves-in?

Oh, my wood consumption as gone-up a goodly bit too

and the long overnight burns are nice for re-kindling the fire, but not much btu's crusing into the morning hrs - burrrr!

Thanks!
Bill

 

[Adkjake]

About 20* outside and very windy, 75* inside with a fairly small fire. But I have a pretty tight smallish house, and a big old Fisher stove.

Lake Placid, which is 19 miles driving distance away, so maybe 12 as the crow flies, picked up a foot and a-half of snow in the last 24 hrs,
me, a dusting. Weird weather pattern up here so far this winter.

 

[mikepinto65]

Low to Mid 20's outside + wind
78°F 1st floor
68°F 2nd floor

 

[RedGuy]

Up here in Michigan it's been in the mid to upper 20's durring the day, fairly windy. My thermostat, which is up stairs from the wood stove which is in my in my den, reads 72, the den is probably in the upper 70's I don't have a thermometer down here, but it's nice and toasty, but not too hot at all. A simple $14 box fan set in the stair well pushing cool air down stairs has been very effective at spreading the heat through my 1,800sqft split level. It'sealed up pretty good for a 1970's home, average insulation in the walls and 20 inches of blown in fiberglass in the attic that I put in a couple months ago. Anyone who is lacking insulation in the attic I HIGHLY recomend doing blown in insulation, it was very easy, only took me about 4 hours to do and has been the best $300 I ever spent! I think this is one of the big reasons I've been able to heat an 1,800sqft home with an 1,800sqft rated stove, otherwise I suspect their ratings are on the optamistic side.

 

[chris-mcpherson]

78°F 1st floor

Holy cow!! How do you stand it?

This week it's been mid 30's day time and low to mid 20's at night.
I maintain a fire to keep the first floor 72-73. The second floor will stay between 68-70
I wake up to a first floor at 69-70
Hearthstone Mansfield/ 3000 sq ft.

 

[PapaDave]

Left the house about noon to do some shopping, got home about 5:30. Outside temp is 19-20 with quite a bit of wind. I only had the house around 68 before we left, and came home to inside temp of 65. While putting groceries away and taking dogs out (doors open, closed, open, closed), the temp has dropped to 63. Shoveled some ashes, put a few small splits on top of the coals and we have FIRE!
Ooooh, temp is now at 63.3.
63.7.

 

[mikepinto65]

78°F 1st floor

Holy cow!! How do you stand it?

This week it's been mid 30's day time and low to mid 20's at night.
I maintain a fire to keep the first floor 72-73. The second floor will stay between 68-70
I wake up to a first floor at 69-70
Hearthstone Mansfield/ 3000 sq ft.

Hahaha, easy just suck down a few cold ones to balance it out! Im not a fan of being hot, but wood heat is an exception...unless the thermometer reads 80+, than the windows get opened for a bit.
Typically though the first floor is 74-76. I normally wake up to it being 68-70

 

[chris-mcpherson]

I'm the same way I guess. My wife doesn't understand why I like it cold (68) in the summer but very warm (74) in the winter. I say that I like my home to be a relief from the prevailing outdoor temps.

 

[snowtime]

We are seeing 0f most days now. Keeping the main floor at 70f. Every day we are out cross country skiing and 70f seems warm enough when you have been out in cool weather all day. The biggest spread that I can remember would be -54f outside and 75f inside. We try not to go out to much when its that cold maybe just feed the chickens.

 

[LLigetfa]

I woke up this morning to hot coals in the stove and -25°C outside. Wife kept the fire burning all day so I came home to a toasty warm house.

 

[48rob]

10 F Outside, 83 inside.

Feels like Hawaii...
Couple of cold ones in the evening require the room be a little warmer...

Rob

 

[rottiman]

Woke up to -7C and a very strong northwest wind which howled all night. As well as alittle snow. Wind blew all day and temp is going down to -11C tonight. Have had both stoves rollin on since yesterday. Last evening it was mid 70's, woke up this a.m to 2 excellent bed of coals. Reloaded for the day and got home to 71 degrees. Man, you can't beat wood heat.

 

[Northern NH Mike]

Over this past weekend we had temps in the high teens, lower 20s in northern NH. Inside we ran in the low to mid 70s; very comfortable for us.

Funny you posted as I was going to ask when/if folks see a 100 degree delta at their place. I came close last year with a -20 outside and 75 degrees inside. Hoping to get the 100 degree difference this year.

 

[heatwise]

8pm currently 23 out and 65 in. should have it up to 70 by 10 pm. pete

 

[Stephen in SoKY]

21 out, 74 in. Headed down to the low teens which is very cold for us, especially in early December.

 

[agartner]

23 out, 79 in the basement, 71 on the first, and about 63 in the bedroom right now.

We spend most all of our time in the basement, for obvious reasons. In about two weeks or so, we're replacing all our windows with double-pane E something or other argon filled nuclear resistant windows. It'll be interesting to see the difference. I've got one in now and there's a 10 degree glass temp difference between the "new" window and the house original equipment with the storms dropped.

 

[Mad Tom]

Right now. 22 out, 72 in.

 

[katwillny]

28 Outside 86 in stove room, 78 around the house. My son is walking around in his underpants. Toasty baby.

 

[Magus]

18 outside 75 inside...gotta love it!

 

[outpost]

12 outside / 70 inside

 

[Dakotas Dad]

Funny you posted as I was going to ask when/if folks see a 100 degree delta at their place. I came close last year with a -20 outside and 75 degrees inside. Hoping to get the 100 degree difference this year.

No sir.

I still have a few goals in life, but a 100degree difference in my in/out temps isn't anywhere on the list. If it was even a real possibility I would move. 19 outside right now, 72 inside. That's 53 degrees, probably have to face a 60 to 65 difference later in the year, that's plenty enough for me.

 

[Dakotas Dad]

Things are slow at the hearth tonight. sorry for the double post.

 

[ecocavalier02]

low 20's probably 80 in my stove/finshed basement 73 on first floor and hopefully low the 60's in the bedroom 3rd floor. i dont care much for it being 80 in here right now but gotta get some heat up stairs and have to let the stove burn down enough or ill have to much coals left in the a.m.

 

[ckarotka]

No fire all day, furnace set to 67 for the wife. I got home from work at 745pm, started from a cold stove before I took my coat off. I have to light both stoves on days like this. Front room was 67 when I got home now it's 72, back room was 65 now its 69. Both rooms should round out at 74-76. This makes the adjacent rooms about 68. It's 23F outside with some wind.

 

[northwinds]

No fire all day, furnace set to 67 for the wife. I got home from work at 745pm, started from a cold stove before I took my coat off. I have to light both stoves on days like this. Front room was 67 when I got home now it's 72, back room was 65 now its 69. Both rooms should round out at 74-76. This makes the adjacent rooms about 68. It's 23F outside with some wind.

Furnace set to 58, which means it doesn't come on. Fire set to "warm" for the wife.

Actually, today was the first day that I noticed I'm burning a little more wood. Will be 4 cycles in the last 24 hours to heat this 2500
square foot hillside ranch. House is 74 downstairs, and 70 upstairs. 4th cycle will be set up in the next hour, and I'm sure the
house will cool off some overnight.