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Tonight’s Outside temps are plumeting! Are you firing up your stove?

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  1. don2222

    don2222

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    Hello
    My workshop even though it is well insulated, being at ground level, it has a cement floor and was 65 so I turned the stove on.
    The house being a split entry home is still warm on the 2nd floor living space so far and no stove heat needed but that may change?
    Are you running your stove?
    Are you in ground level 1st floor living space?
    How well insulated is your abode?
     

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    Already burning here.
     
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    Not yet! Baking is keeping us warm.

    If I do the stats only going to 68 ºF. Paying for collage, So.................... :emptywallet:
     
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    Has the missus bought into that?
     
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    Thermostat is on
     
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    Sig update time OM.
     
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    Still holding out here. Calling for a low of 36. I just asked the wife if she wanted a fire and got a no.
     
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    To be fair, the new stove is off. Not needed until we get some of the real cold. So I think i have a little more time before i need to update the sig:D
     
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    Mount Washington was capped in ice this morning!
    See
    Mount Washington summit coated by ice

    Looks like it is going down to 38 Degs here by 7 AM according to News 9 NH weather in Manchester! See attached pic below.

    Nice to have more than 1 Pellet Stove IHP ??
    Does that give you 100K BTUs of nice summery pellet stove heat???

    I have 204K BTUs with my 4 Pellet Stoves.:)
     

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    I'm thinking dummy stat up stairs that says 72, While the hidin one set to 68..............

    I'm likely to get :heidi:
     
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    I used to have over 100k. Now I am at about 70k give or take. One thing I learned having the West Point is I really didn't need the last two settings. Making the extra HP unnecessary.
     
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    Just connect the dummy stat to an electric heating coil in the wall behind the dummy stat to give it a dummy temperature to be more realistic. :)
     
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    Fired mine up around 8 tonight. First long burn with the new combustion blower. So far I am very happy. It's on low and it's nice to see a very active flame. Normally I would be looking at my temp display for my heated air from the exchanger but now my temp display is reading 8888. Gotta look into that tomorrow. I suspect the thermocouple has a bad connection somewhere. (sigh) Anyways, the house went from 63 to 70 in no time.
     
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    Hello
    It is 6:15 AM and 35 Deg Out!

    64 Deg in the living room!

    Last night I closed the gable vents in the attic. I made insulated trap doors with a latch so I could seal them up tight. That always makes a huge difference by not letting the cold air come in and suck the heat out like a vacuum cleaner!!

    I will think about turning on any heat at all when we wake up. :)

    Workshop is 63 Degs F
    Shed is 51 Degs F

    Basement is 65 Deg F
     

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    turned on the baseboard heat in the living room and bedroom and woke up to 70 deg. It only got down to 40 deg. so no stove yet
     
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    Doubtful.. Jay is in for a long winter of :heidi:
     
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    Was 32* at 6am......heating system was ON. :shiver:
     
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    We had frost this AM, House held the heat pretty good as it was still 69ºF this morning. Buggy had a frost on it too. Used the baseboard heat in the bath for the AM shower, And heat in the buggy for the ride in. :shiver:

    Suns shinning so I bet we get some solar that warms the shack and no heat again tonight. :dennis:
     
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    Well, I just opened up the valve for a few drops of Liquid Propane, 30k BTUs to take the chill out. No Big Blue 109K BTU Budarus Boiler or big Satin Black 61K BTU Harmy yet!
     

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    Let the P68 run last night, and glad we did - it was 33 outside this morning.
     
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