warm 34. crazy how it all changes.. first of the month bitter cold.. 74 in the house burning Lodge Pole Pine. Stay warm all you's east of the Mississippi.
6 House heats easy when theres a foot of snow on the roof and banked on the N and W ends. We've got 14" in 24 hours. 15 days burning on the initial wood room fill and still over half full. Last year by this time I had filled it twice . I'm liking this oak.Never burned this much of a run before andalot more on deck.
Holding at 12°F winds keeping it close to 0° Added a good sized red oak round to the back of the stove topped with more red oak and hickory splits. Stove room 71° far bedroom at 64°, but will wake up to probably 57ish in the bedroom with these cold temps. Stay warm FHC!
Single digits with the wind chill . The house was 72 when I left at 2pm, just got home and it's 68, not bad, gonna feed my baby some locust and ash and she should have a full belly and be good till the morning...stay warm you hoarders..the weather we been craving, all that hard work pays off now...suppose to get hit this weekend with the noreaster
It's about a 1400sf ranch. The issue is the 350sf addition on the backside of the house. Even with my system of fans to move air, I just can't get this room temperature above 60 when it's in the single digits outside. This is where I hang out and play my guitar so I like sitting here in shorts and a T-shirt.
Night all, stay warm. Long weekend coming to an end. Been a good 4 days of burning but the gas mans got a check coming his way for the next few days. Last load till Friday, Ash and oak.
4º outside and 73 upstairs above the stove room. Just loaded with white oak, red oak and sugar maple on a good bed of locust coals. Cold outside, warm dog, warm cat and most important warm wife.
We're at 4 tonight with the temps trending down, Yellow Birch,Sugar Maple, 2 rounds of Ironwood and some Soft Maple in the Liberty with the Pellet Stove set at 77.
It's suppose to be 39 degrees here tonight in East Texas, I load my stove about 25% full with two year seasoned red oak right before I go to bed and that takes care of a 1900 sq ft house until morning. :stacke:
2º this morning when I got up, upstairs 70º, raked everything forward about 6:45 and the house is up to 71º. Just about ready to load the Buck full of locust and sugar maple.
Got down to 4 last night here, sugar maple and red oak kept the house around 70. Supposed to be below freezing until Thursday, wind chill last night got down to around 10 below. Winter's finally here! Major major snow headed here Friday - Sunday. Some of the snowfall totals they are predicting for virginia are unbelievable, so I'll wait until I see it. I do need to make sure I'm not snowed in without beer though!
18 here, barely broke 35 yesterday. Reloaded with some sourwood & sweetgum this morning and now cruising on white oak secondaries
Get you a cheap $20 electric space heater cube and turn it on when your back there on cold days nights. Yea you feel like its cheating but if your pushed to limits only other choice is central. And in my case where the thermostat it id have to set it like 77 to get the back room warmer from central heat as the stove heat in the hall gets to the thermostat. Our room is farthest from stove and cold nights about a small heater on low in there.
Y'all were way colder than us here in SC! Those of you burning locust. On your hot reloads if you have a few pieces of locust thats cooled up but not totally gone does it spark like crazy for you and jump all out of the stove? It does it every time for me for the very end charcoal pieces once they heat back up and burn.
16 deg. right now, burning oak, beech & maple. House was 70 this AM as I filled her good last night with oak, lots of coals!