I'm looking for some help in remembering how hot our stove had to be to do a hot burn and how long we should keep it there? We have a Woodstock...
Our insulation is almost non existent, but it will be easier to replace the windows because someone long ago sided the house with asbestos siding,...
Papadave, ours is a two story house with two wings, and the second story stairwell is closed off at the bottom with a solid door--we don't heat...
Quick question--if I load the stove, get the temp up, and see that I could put one or two more splits in because the original ones have settled,...
Thanks, Sherwood. Today we've been doing just what you suggest, although earlier we hadn't. Earlier, we had gotten the temp up to 500 and had to...
Update: the overnight burn was good--glass clear as anything, coals pretty well burned down but nice enough to start up todays fire. Temp on the...
Sherwood, just saw the end of your post--we seem to have a good draft, not too strong but certainly enough. We don't do our own chimney--we use a...
The first floor of the house is about 1000 sq ft, and we agree that we live in a red flag! We're going to replace all the windows this year, and...
The cat is burning at 15o0 degrees?? Where did you find that information? We had no idea it was THAT hot! We had the inside of the stove quite...
Just read your long post, Sherwood. Guess we're being real wimps--we thought we had to cool the stove in order to check and remove cat!!! You...
Here are some photos that should give an idea of the stove room and the rooms that we want to send heat into. I should add that all our windows...
I was very pleased to find this thread because we're just getting through our first winter with our PH, and it hasn't been as easy as we'd thought...
Interesting to read your temps--upper level lower 70s? How many sq ft are you heating? We have the upstairs closed off because we don't use it...
Sherwood, it's a magnetic thermometer. We're doing much better, thanks to your advice and Flamestead's. But we can burn with the damper all the...
Thanks for the explanation of this--it's very clear now. That's great, and the length isn't the problem here, it's the huge split size-we don't...
On one of the threads, I know that Woodstock did say that 600 was OK and even 700 wasn't damaging, provided that it didn't stay there. So that's...
Hi Machria, I was hoping you'd chime in! Here's some info on the house: We have an old house with not much insulation, and on the first floor we...
Help! We installed our new Progress Hybrid in August, and after that (in September or early October) we began to have our initial burns. We were...
