We are at 2-1/3 cord (7 totes) so far, but 4 of those totes were pine, one had punky red maple and one decent red oak. The other was a mix of ash, decent red maple and a little oak. Started pulling from a full tote of red oak with some beech mixed in last night.
2800 sf house with good windows and insulation. We have a Hearthstone Clydesdale insert. We don't rely on it for heating full time but it does a nice job when we keep it going. I have a pedestal fan off to the side to push the air blown from the insert around, including across the front foyer and up the stairs. I'll typically keep a fire going all weekend. Yesterday with temps at 30 the house was 74. Today it's 28 out and I've had the insert running since 6 a.m. - the house is now 70. Once the house is where we want it I'll slow down the blower fan. Keeps a nice balanced indoor temp. all day. I go through about 6-8 face cords a season, but thus far am on a pace to go through 10.
3100 ish sqft, built 1894. Insulated as we got into things. The main building is heated well by the Jotul f500. The east wing and the war room (off the east wing) stay generally unused and unheated. It takes a day to heat the east wing with a fairly hot fire in the main house. Id like to add a second wood stove out there (chimney in the war room). In the last 2 years of heating with wood, we've gone thru 2 cord September to end of year, and 4 new year to May or June. We need more shoulder season wood, as use of the furnace is sorta prohibited. Season to date, we've used just about 2 cord, maybe a hair more. We only have 3.5 left up here, so Ill bring another cord up next week or two. We're making a little more heat this year as SCA Jr is here, and more space needs to stay warm. Part of me, wants to.escape the big city for a one floor building, with lotsa rooms and a big barn. And room to stack firewood and not irritate neighbors.
Also in York Couny, PA. Main house is 1840 stone farmhouse with bath and a bedroom added on above kitchen. Lousy front door, and old windows in 2 of the up stairs rooms. 4 cords a year. I use our stove for only source of heat from late Sept to end of April.
1155sf rambler in western Washington with a lopi 1250 insert. I usually burn October to May. Electric heat comes on sometimes when I'm gone all day. Most the wood here is lower BTU compared to other regions and I average 3.5 cords a year.
Just shy of 2000 sq ft (+ 1200 ft basement) 1940 era brick cape cod being heated with a Kuuma forced air furnace...use ~4-4.5 cord per year to keep the place 70-72*, basement slightly cooler...oh, and have a HPWH down there too, so the furnace is indirectly heating our water too...it has a hot water coil, but I never bothered to hook it up since we got this WH. What model do you have?
Ah, yes...I had a Yukon Husky wood/oil once upon a time...about the only thing that lasted any real amount of time was Hickory, and maybe Locust...serious BTU output though!
Oh nice, been driving through Craley on my way to work the past week or so. I live in Delta, most of my work is in Lancaster County.
~1400 sq ft strawbale house near Syracuse NY. I'll say 98% of my heat comes from the woodstock keystone, and we're approaching 1/3 of a cord burned for the year. Mostly still just 1 fire per day, but I expect with the dip this weekend to be up to 2 fires per day. Typical season will put me at 1.5-2 cord total. I've been mostly burning sugar maple and beech the past couple years.
Wisconsin 1700 sq ft ranch built 1997 between 2.5 - 3 cords Nov 1 to April 1 LP furnace in basement which doesn’t run much if I do my part
In the 6-7 range since heating season began in August. A good year is only 15 cords and a bad 22ish. The OWB’s go through some wood especially when is 120-130 degrees difference inside to out. We keep it 72-74 in the living room kids have their rooms about the same, 65-69 in mine.
We burn through approximately 3.5-4 cords for an average season from mid Oct to mid April here in NE Ohio. Burning 24/7 in a Blaze King Princess. House is 1600 sq ft.
Two story colonial, 3000 square feet, kept at 72-74 during the day. OWB typically uses around 8 cords of subpar junk wood that's a by product of me selling wood.
4 cords but we can reach 5 cords during the few winters with extended periods with single digit highs. 1100 sq ft raised ranch with a wood furnace in the basement heating both floors completely to 70 deg. Good insulation but only double pane windows instead of thermo-pane. Red oak, sugar maple, and white ash mostly but we happily cut slippery elm, hackberry, and walnut when available.
