Are Your Stoves Keeping Up?

-25 this morning at 6:30! Expecting a high of -15 today! The little Woodstock Keystone continues to impress me. I woke up to a 73 degree stove room with plenty of coals for a reload after a good 10 hour burn. It's a little cooler 66 in my far bedroom but that's fine for me.

3 loads per day burning around #1 seems to do the trick in below zero weather but I may burn a little hotter today.

 

Yup...but have to credit the fuel and improvements to the shell of the house as much as the stove.

 

I thought for sure that my stove wouldn't keep up last night and the furnace would kick on with the forecasted low of -15 and -40 windchill...but it did. I ran a full load of hedge through the King in 14 hours...I ran it HARD. Fans on high and T-stat 4.5/6.

 

it was 15 degrees this morning with a -10 feel and my living room was 80 degrees and the rest of the house was 74 degrees. I am guessing the temps didn't drop as quickly last night as they thought they would.

 

-2F this morning + wind chill. The wife put 3 splits in the Keystone at 8pm last night. I had intended to wait until bed time and stuff it. 8am this morning, 69F in the house.

 

Yep. Easiest burning season I have had so far.

 

No problems here.

 

Below 0° and more than a few hours.......no.
Getting better though.

 

Doing fine here...been burning pine and poplar mixed with a few pieces of Michelin tire.

 

Make sure those tires are properly seasoned...at least 60,000 miles.

 

It's the best thing I have come across in this cold weather. You can burn like crazy and still have a cord or two left.

 

I find Firestones have a few more BTUs

 

Good fire starter too

 

Like you, I did fine with no furnace assist. Set the alarm for 3.5 hours after I fell asleep and reloaded with oak. No hedge but white oak is still about 24 million btu's per cord, and that was enough with a reload in the middle of the night. It's about -13 here presently. After this, winter is going to be a snap!!!

 

I don't know if the furnace kicked on overnight because I slept through it. Better living through chemistry.

 

Hey Todd, I really like your setup there! Nice pictures

 

+1
Earthquake don't wake me up, furnace don't have a chance.

Furnace blower kicks on ever 3o minutes (for 5 min) to move air, if
the heat kick on then, ok by me, I need more beauty sleep than most

 

You'll never catch me doing a reload in the middle of the night. I'd have the wife do it.

 

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