How Long Does It take To heat up your house with your stove. I have electric backup set at 50*. When I get my stove started it takes a little while to heat the place up but I think 22* in just under two and a half hours is pretty good. Outside temp has a lot to do with it I know. House is 1250 Sq/Ft ranch style with woodstove in the middle. Thermometer is about 12 feet away around the corner.
I have a Raised Ranch 1156 sq. ft.and heat from the basement. The lowest temp I have seen when I get home from work this year (upstairs in the kitchen) is 67...when I leave for work it's usually 72-73 degrees. And all thermostats are turned off in every room. None of the rooms get closed off. I think a lot of it is house construction...windows, doors, insulation, etc.
52 to 75 in 2 and a half hours aint happening in my house unless its summer. But 36F at 6pm is pretty close
I close off the upstairs during the day when nobody goes up there, there is a single floor vent that brings some heat up. It takes about 40 minutes to heat the downstairs from a reload, the lowest is around 62 (in the furthest room away) and about 74 (ish) during the daytime. At night I leave the first floor door open and the floor vent open and get temps around 68 upstairs and wake up to around 62.
Great post after 10 yrs of supplementing oil boiler with stove (3+ cords per year – so burning all I can) – I feel the temps that you all post - shower feels warmer when room is 52. I have to admit you have to get the buy in from other family members – but there is nothing wrong with waking up to temps in the 50’s – makes everyone a little heartier – nothing wrong with that - better prepared for the what if.... Nothing better than starting the stove on a cold morning and getting the house up to temp. If it was easy everyone would do it – embrace the struggles – we don’t do it enough anymore….sorry for preaching..
Sorry Sideshow, but 52 is a bit too much of a struggle. I'm unhappy if I wake to the house at 62, let alone 52. I figure I did something wrong....like not loading the stove before bed.
If i get home on a cold day (below 20) and the stove is out, the house is normally 54-56. I have the oil furnace set at 50 just in case. Once i get home, let the dog out, stoke or start the fire, its 69-70 in about an hour, maybe an hour and a half at the most. 2790 sq ft, stove at far end of a cape cod that has been added on to, stove is in a 22x28 room at the very far end of the house. I have a fan mounted in the door way to push 90 degree lving room air towards the rest of the house. thermostat is mounted center of the house, right by the upstairs stairwell. normally the house is about 65 when I wake up. colder than that, I have issues, like I didn't stoke the stove or something. right now, the thermostat says 71 and its 30ish outside.
I have a raised ranch house with about 1600 sq ft upstairs and about the same in the basement. The stove is in the basement. It would literally take me days to raise the temp 20 degrees with just the stove. It would also take a long time to loose 20 too. Yesterday I woke up to a 65* house...it took all day with burning a decent fire to get it back up to 70. If I let the fire go out tonight, with a low right around freezing, I might loose 5 degrees.
I keep my electric heat on 55* as a backup. This was after I was gone for the weekend and got home after work Monday evening. The old Wood Chief does the job nicely and throws out some heat.
They were in the low 30's. It is a long time, but it is a lot of square footage and an poorly basement.
Just guessing- from 52F TO 75F, probably 3 hrs for the living/kitchen/hall way air temp. Maybe 6 hrs for the whole house, lots of acid stained concrete. Never tried though.
Ok not going to lie my house is backup natural gas. If it get to 68 my gas furnace will kick on. Dont want my babies to get cold. But mr daka does a great job at keeping it warm.
I'm the same way, my backup is a natural gas forced hot air system. It's set to 62, has only run once that I know about.
House at 64 , it takes about 45 min to get to 70, about 1 1/2 hours to get from 64 to 75-77 and I think its about 2 1/2 hours for other end of the house to get to 72-73
My house is kind of a mess to heat. The Answer is along the far northeast wall in the living room/kitchen. That's open to the dining room so the whole area stays pretty decent and I can heat it up from 50-70º in about 45-60 mins at 30º outside temp. The rest of the main floor is 2 bedrooms and a large bathroom along the south wall down a hall from the dining room. All these rooms stay a consistent 8-10º cooler than the living room unless it's sunny out. The basement is fully finished and I have the thermostat on the LP furnace set at 64º because the kids' bedrooms are down there. Once I fire up the Daka I can raise the temp to 80º (from 64) in probably 15-20 mins. The main trouble with that scenario is figuring out how to run that thing low enough, with an acceptable amount of smoke, and not overheat the basement. I really need to find a way to tap it into my duct-work but I haven't committed to tearing into the sheetrock to accomplish that. The whole house is right near 2700 sqft of closed off partitioned mess. Hopefully when the SIL moves out (with her bleeping cats) we can open all the dang doors again!
I have always set my gas forced air furnace thermostat on 66. I don't want my family to be cold. That said, with 2 wood burners in my house, it is a rare occasion when the gas furnace kicks on. Also, I should say, that heating with wood has always NOT been about saving on the gas bill for us,(although it is a nice plus) We love wood heat! We love the independence. But I always have a contingency plan. Generator, bottled water, stored can goods. etc. I will not be without provisions and a back up plan. Wood heat is part of that and has been part of our life for 40 years, and we count on it every day.
