On average how much wood do you use to heat your house a day. I have a 2000 sq ft house and now with the new liner I am down to 16 pieces a day. 8 in the morning and 8 at night. Before the liner I was averaging 30 pieces a day and more on really cold days.
With our current Pot Bellied Parlor stove,, I might as well leave the door open and keep chucking. I have a feeling things might be a little different next year for us
I’ve never counted splits. I usually fill a 3.2 cubic ft firebox 2 times a day unless it’s in the teens. That’s a big improvement for you.
I was wondering about this the other day while filling the woodbox, and how the boiler guys speak in lb of wood, while we indoor folks count sticks or reloads. We reload 4 times daily during the week, varying load size by OAT. I think we can put 5 or 6 full reloads through it on a cold weekend.
In average temps, an armload in the morning and another at night. But I vary the species and even the length of splits quite a bit depending on the outdoor temps. This is of course unless I get busy and my wife jumps in the pilot seat... Warmed up a bit yesterday/last night. I'm outside working in just a long sleeve shirt at 40˚ & foggy and come in the house and it's nearly 78˚ inside . For me, that's like a sauna, for her & that damm Caribbean blood, "it's comfy".
Ya my wife loves the heat for sure. If it's not 78 and hotter she has a sweatshirt on and covers up with a blanket on the couch.
Here in the moderate NW we use maybe 8-10 splits at approx. 5" X 8" of Madrone, Locust or Cherry along with a few smaller ones of Fir. A smaller, well insulated house and avg. daytime temps of 45*- 60* F don't require much wood. In fact, the challenge is to not get the house too hot! We have a 2.6 cubic ft. stove that needs a reasonable amount of wood to be efficient so a fine balance is needed. Have to quit putting wood in at about 5 PM so the house is not to warm for sleeping.
I've never actually counted splits, but I would have to guess somewhere between 6-10 per full load, depending on split size.
I've too much variability/range of split size. 2 milk crates of red maple in this warmer weather, 4 when it gets colder. Pretty much the same with oak but we're pushing more BTU out of the stove. Warmer weather we either play the burn pine and start fires once or twice a day or burn more red maple and see how low get the coals before loading up about halfway again. It's 50ºF today with almost no sun and we've ended up doing low burn all day which I don't really like to do. I just hope I get the burn rate hot enough often enough to keep the chimney clean. I know I do with nice dry pine.
Around 30 splits a day in the cold weather heating a 2,800 sq.ft. home. This week with the very mild weather, maybe 6-10 splits a day just to keep the stove and chimney warm on low. I'm about to go down and put in 6 and let it coast overnight since it's gonna get down in the low 30s tonight. It was in the 50s this afternoon. We try to keep it around 74* in the house for the wife.
On a really cold day (10 f or below) I’m sure I can easily burn 30+ splits, but I’m trying to heat 3800 sqft. I should’ve put in 2 wood burning inserts!
8-12 splits X 2 loads per day. Splits are 2' by 10X12" though with some smaller fillers. OWB Heating 2650sq ft.
Most of my split sizes are cut offs from a pallet factory. The logs are cut and then thick slabs (6"-8") are left over in a half round. this is usually from something like a 16" or better diameter tree. Heating a 1500 sq ft home and domestic hot water with an OWB and in the mild temps we have been having (20's-30's) I use a minimum of 6 to 8 of these daily. Whew, long winded!
With this warmer weather we have been having I am down to about 8 splits a day (2 x 4) but they are bigger pieces, 20-22" long, and about 25-30 lbs for 4 of them...
Never kept track of daily as it varies so much... On the winter, 3 to 3 1/2 cord will usually get us through. We've done 2 1/2 one year and 4 one year for our lows and highs. Also, as most on this forum knows, we also keep our indoor temperature high. If I want to be cold, I'll go outdoors. Indoors I want to be warm. Besides, it keeps the ladies from wearing too many articles of clothing. So we keep it around 80 inside.
Usually load 2-3 splits in the early afternoon, 3-4 around 10pm, then 2-3 more if it is <15* around 3-4am or 6-7am if warmer. Luckily with a 4 month old I'm up often if a reload is needed. So 7-10 pieces per day to keep the 1500' house 64-67* which is more than warm enough for us. 64* in here now and I have on shorts and a t-shirt. A little under a cord burned since October 1st and ~65 gallons of oil burned (most of which was Turkey Day week when we were away).
About 15 pieces a day. 5 good sized in the morning, 5 smaller in the evening then 5 good sized for overnight.
