When we were running a Fisher stove and a coal furnace for total heat… that was always the biggest complaint… we couldn't go anywhere for much longer than 12 hrs.
Right on new guy! Be carefull here, before you know it, you'll have a stove or 2, and will start to figure out where to pile the cords of firewood.
Jeez, you guys are funny. I'm on my third stove. Upsizing every time as I go. Maybe a Castine with the short leg kit will fit next. Yeah, I am always thinking about it. Don't tell the wife though.
I put myself as a major player. Oil boiler comes on for hot water when the kids need a bath every couple of days. Our water for washing dishes gets heated in the microwave as did my shaving water yesterday. We didn't start the winter with enough wood to make it through the winter, so the stove usually gets it's last meal when we have dinner and we start a cold stove in a cold house in the morning. Lowest its been in the stove room is 42 degrees. We have an electric oil filled radiator heater in the bedroom that keeps it between 60 and 65 but make our "outhouse runs" to the cold bathrooms in the middle of the night. I turned on the boiler a couple of times this winter to prevent the pipes from freezing when the IR Thermometer read 0.6°C in the basement. Moved into the new house exactly a year ago today. Started heating with wood in Oct '13. Since Nov 24, we have burned about 70 gallons of heating oil (mostly for hot water). The two times the boiler was left on this winter were when the wife and kids picked me up when i returned from overseas and a week when I was on the road and the lows were sub-zero. Previous owner burned 1200-1500 gallons per year. I'd like to see the voting set up differently. Perhaps people should tell their stories and then each of us could vote as to what WE think they are.. I think Backwoods Savage is a Romance Burner. He started his fire for his bride in the mid 1900's and that fire has just never gone out!!
Hardcore here. Old propain furnace is out in barn and its not coming back in. We plan on eventually putting in a heat pump but that is after some renovations. 2100 SQ feet of barely insulated farm house and have seen 59 degrees one time after a 16 hour day at work. But the stacks are hurting this year I will probable use at least 7 cord this year to my normal 5.
Mere player despite thwarted efforts to be major. Our windows are decent, but the brick veneer walls are uninsulated and threre's only R-19 (at best) in the attic. The stove just can't keep up in weather like this.
Hardcore......but the pellet stove is a major player too And the hot water is oil fired I'm married so there is no light a fire to start a fire
When home woodstove is cranking thru winter Late spring early fall, furnace takes the morning chill off.
Major here as well I have been renovating for the last 2 years and have not finished re installing the furnace duct work. Once that happens I will probably drop down to major player.
Haven't had a furnace at home for 7 years and let the oil tank at the camp go empty 5 years ago (removed the oil furnace there permanently last summer). Installing 8000W of baseboard heaters this morning so we can head south this afternoon for a week
