for percentage of heating?? Myself....burned about 1 to 1.25 cords so far...maybe 5-7 gallons of fuel oil. I know most fellow FHCers like it warmer than i do...68-70*s is fine with us....so ...what you say??
100% heating with wood at our cabin 20 miles from the Ontario border, and almost 100% when we lived in the area. We average staying a bit more than 4 full weeks there during heating season from late September, through mid May. We often have light heating needs from early Sept through Memorial day. We have arrived at night when it has been as cold as almost -30f in December, January and February. Our building has open windows facing south so there is some daytime heating on the coldest sunny days, but it sill may be well below zero inside when we get there between 7 and 10PM. In those cases it takes a good 2-3 hours before you can't see your breath downstairs, and for it to be warm enough to sleep comfortably the first night up in the loft. By the end of the first full day, the walls, interior cupboards, and downstairs bedroom and living area are nice and warm. We enjoy keeping the fire going the cabin toasty during our coldest weather. At home we have a really solid hearth, but just glass doors on the opening. It is for comfort in our family room and we enjoy the warmth after the fire has been going for several cycles, like right now! We are destined for a good insert ASAP as we never really got over our love of wood heat since moving to this home.
That is my dream. Actually our dream , God willing, is to eventually spent almost all our retired lives living at our homestead up north. It would also mean outhouse and hauling water, including our own water system utilizing the nice spring fed creek on our property, as well as building a sauna/shower building. Luckily my wife and I are both on the same page, meaning that we would sell everything here and do it this spring if circumstances allowed it, but other obligations bring us back down to earth, namely aging parents, and 2 of 3 adult children still in college and finding their way. Our daughter is married and launched.
Boiler is on for domestic hot water. If it’s below 0 degrees F outside, the FHW zones need to be run periodically to prevent freezing pipes in the basement... as long as we are not away from the house for more than 24 hours, we use 100% wood heat... that is of course not accounting for waste heat from appliances, solar gain through windows and body heat which all add a small amount..
I don't know how to figure that out. I keep the stove burning during the day, and it gets down to coals at night. The thermostat is set to 68°. We have a natural gas boiler and baseboard cast iron radiators. Sometimes they feel warm. Our gas bill in winter is 2-3 times that of summer ($35), which would be just the cookstove, dryer, and tankless hot water heater.
100% wood with electric cheater heater for bathroom with heated floor-My furnace is allowed to run 1 time per year to ensure in working order-Gas wall heater in garage for extreme cold-I average keeping house @72, November to April-May, the Fireview burns 24-7...And I pay the MAN $10.10 per month for the gas I use to run heater in garage and my cooking stove.
I try for 100%. Some nights I fall asleep before the night fill and some nights in the 30s-40s I might let the propane kick on. The older I get the easier it is to let the propane run. Last few years propane usage has been around 150 gal/yr including the cook stove.
Id like to say 100%, but sometimes its too cold for not having heat but too warm for the stove if that makes sense... We have two electric heat pumps. It can be expensive as crap to run them. Thats why we have the stove, cost reduction. I have several large tracts of woods we own, so why not heat with wood.
We’ve lowered our wood burning this year. I now work first shift with a much longer commute. We are just having fires on the weekend. Our new Mitsubishi split unti has done most of the heating this year. It hasn’t raised our electric bill that much, maybe $50 last month. I haven’t had much time to process wood so that hasn’t helped either.
I try for 100 %... but I fire up the stove at least once a year to make sure it runs... but if I’m away for extended periods... it’s amazing how much the electric bill was when we did not have the wood stove and the thermostat was set on like 65-68F... gas around here isn’t bad... but that blower motor must pull some amps...
When we first moved here, I used gas and the stove, then I got ticked off with the seemingly excessively high cost, so I turned off the gas and power and went all firewood. Did that for several years, Back about 2015 (guessing here), I started using the wall furnace more in the morning and before bed. Now that we have the new HE furnace, it's running about 80% (swag) of the time. The plan was 50-50. Also have the shop furnace running @ 45 degrees (stat won't go lower) unless I'm out there.
Our wood heat is not intended to be our main source of heat. Yet we still heat 70% with wood I'd say because we enjoy the wood heat. Using around 3 cords a year. Our Mitsubishi split units and natural gas boiler/radiators cost very little to operate.
Usually about 85%. But we are using more oil now that the kids aren’t around to reload after school. She will run it a bit to help get heat in the rooms further from the stove, too.
Being my 1st season, hard to judge but if I had to, I'd say about 70%-75% of the time heating using the stove. Furnace will kick on sometimes early in the AM before I get up around 6. Also sometimes it will kick on just before I get home from work. But now that my wife has been loading it sometimes it kicks on less. Looking at my furnace usage history it runs anywhere from 15minutes a day to about 60 min a day. Some days it don't run at all. We have thermostat set at 66. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk
100% here. We have 2 cheater heaters in our kids rooms because we close there doors at night. Gone through 3 chord so far
100% here also in the snow belt of Ontario for the past 10 years.. I am like other the furnace runs once a year to make sure it starts.I even will put in a OWB when I build new house to remain wood heated house
100% for us here in Rhode Island. We heat a little over 2000 sq ft. Really well insulated, center chimney house. We keep it going basically from mid-late October til April or whenever spring arrives. Keep the doors upstairs open during the day to get circulation. 3 years so far in this house and can’t complain.
