Just wanted to get an idea as to how many cords you guys are burning every winter. This is my first year burning in our new home with our new stove (Hearthstone Homestead) in Southern York County, PA. It's a 1000 sq ft home built in '94, good insulation, double paned windows, and our stove is our main source of heat (we have electric baseboard heat but don't use). I burn only seasoned hardwoods (mostly red oak) for roughly 12 hours or so a day and our house stays around 75 on average. So far it looks like we're on pace to burn through 2.5 - 3 cords (started burning mid Nov, little over 1/2 a cord burned so far) which I'm super stoked about. What about you guys?
~2000 square foot cape style house. I started burning late September and usually burn right until late April-early May. I average a little more than 3 cords per year.
I burn 3 cords a year. Might be more this year, I have been burning a lot of lower btu wood (tulip poplar). The house is normally 72+, it will dip lower on cold mornings. My other option would be using electric baseboards which would cost 50 to 60 cents per hour and we would still be cold. I'd rather pay myself than the electric company.
Agreed, I ran the electric baseboards for all of January last winter when we bought the house. We hadn't moved in yet but were doing a lot of remodeling, our electric bill that month was $450.
I live in a 920 sq ft, 130 yr old house, with crappy windows, not the best insulation and I got through 3 to 4 cord. The stove never goes out for at least 3 months and is my only source of heat. I burn anything I can get, but mostly locust. So far this year, I'm finishing up some elm in a shed to get that cleaned up.
I've got a nice pile of elm I still need to split. I'm hoping letting it sit for another 6 months or so will make it easier.
1300 square foot house built in 68 and added on in 95. About 2.5 cords and 25 gallons of fuel oil per year.
1800 software, open plan ranch. Double pane windows, decent insulation, with cathedral ceiling. We aim for 72⁰ during the day. 66⁰ overnight. Bedrooms opposite end of house from wood stove. A nice for sleeping low 60's. No attempt to move heat through house. It does just fine on its own. We go through ~3 cord each heating season.
1700 Sq ft ranch on a full basement that is also heated, plus, we throw a little out to the garage. Depending on species, we burn 10-12 cord in a normal winter using our Hardy OWB. If we have an extended cold snap or high winds we will go through another cord or two.
OTE="CogentAnon, post: 1422027, member: 9314"]I've got a nice pile of elm I still need to split. I'm hoping letting it sit for another 6 months or so will make it easier.[/QUOTE] That's what they say. When I used to burn it a lot, I never could wait and needed to get it split. So it was always pretty fresh.
2400 sq. I built in 2009 very well insulated half walkout basement finished with stove in basement. 23 acres of red and white oak go through 2.5 cords per season November/March.
We have a raised ranch home with the insert on the upper level. Basement stays cool so we have to run the oil furnace on those days when temps drop below zero. We burn 3-5 cords per year. We try to keep oil use below 100 gallons for the winter
1200 square foot ranch style. We burn wood from September through June. We go through 4 to 4 1/2 cords of Doug fir and Western Larch firewood a year. Hearthstone Mansfield keeps the living room at 80 degrees a lot of the time. Cooler in the bedrooms. I let it go out at night so we can sleep. We don’t get much sunshine in the winter, so we enjoy the stored sunshine from the woodshed.
6 to 7 cord a year for the house. I like it hot. We use no city heat at all, just wood. I burn in the house generally from beginning of september to around the first week in June. I burn about 3 cord in my garage and sauna, and it depends in my shop. Some winters 5 cord, and some winters 2.
You will find for most folks 3-5 cords will do nicely. Here we burn from 2 1/2 - 3 1/2 cord per year. Like KSPlainsman our only source of heat is the wood stove. We get along just fine.
1800 square foot... But two rooms up stairs are sealed off and a basement thats unheated... I use 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 cords per year... I only use the house heater once a year to makes sure it works (which I haven't yet ...) or supplement when time isn't available due to work and long hours... which is few and far between...
Probably around 3 , maybe more? It depends how much I burn in the shop furnace. Busy schedules have kept me from working out there as much as I would like to. Hopefully I can get some time out there over the holiday break.
3200 sq ft ….full finished basement with fired air wood furnace. Syracuse NY. Burned about 2 -3 real cords so far. House is 72-75 degree, 100% wood heated although there is oil back up. Heavy year for hickory, beech and black locust. Ash just burns too fast in this furnace.
