question, where is your wood burning threshold?

With a cold snap coming into the northeast here in the next few hours, I'm reading posts of people preparing. There is talk of bringing in the big guns (locust splits), firing up the second stove (or third stove BBar), sleeping in the stove room, reloading every 6 hours, etc.
Just curious, for those of you who have the option of an alternative heat source, when do you throw in the towel and just kick on the oil burner, gas, electric, etc?
My threshold is pretty low. I'm pretty lazy so I'm not reloading every 6 hours and I'm certainly not sleeping in the living room unless the power goes out. Ill hit the oil burner when it gets silly cold out. Does this make me the opposite of hard core? Soft core?
Anyone else this lazy?
What is your threshold?

 

I worry about my pipes freezing when it gets below zero so I set the thermostat at 65. As the wood stove cools off at night the boiler kicks on. I am more concerned about the pipes than saving money.

 

This extended cold spell has me turning on the nat. gas heater overnight, so I don't need to get up in the middle of the night to reload.
In the past, this kind of cold was usually just a blip, so I dealt with it w/o turning on the heater.
We've got a warm spell on the way in a few days. In the meantime, the heater will be used overnight if needed.

 

If I'm home, I keep a fire going & let the furnace come on it the stove don't keep up.
That way the furnace don't have to run as much.

That happens down around 0° to -10° with high winds.
Lucky this year, had a cold spell with -20 but no wind so the stove kept up.

 

To me with this cold weather, this is what burning wood is all about to me... I look at it like have no other heat... I like the challenge... I'm burning Pine in the PH... Happen to have that and 1-3 in rounds of apple wood in the rack I'm on right now... house is 75 and it's 1 degree out.. Esse wood cook stove is going at the other end of the farm house as well...

 

I feed mine til I go to bed and when it dies down the furnace takes over...I also have to be careful of pipes freezing. I have a wireless indoor-outdoor thermometer with the outdoor part under the trailer where pipes are and if it drops below a preset temp an alarm will go off so I can take further action to keep from freeze ups....

 

Thermostat lives at 50 degrees. We have used the furnace twice to catch up the house, get it above 60. Those are days I've cut my splits in half to get load sideways and get the temp up.

 

Ok, so far I'm about average with you guys. I set my thermostat and when the stove doesn't keep up the oil kicks on.
Where are the hard core soles who would rather stab themselves in the eye before hearing the oil burner kick on?

 

Blue, here's one.

 

I don't have a furnace so unless I can come stay with you I can't throw the towel in......

In all seriousness I haven't had to much of an issue with the T6. The house temps do suffer a little bit but that just means we wear jeans and a hoodie instead of shorts and tank tops and suffer through the 70 degree temps

 

I keep the natural gas furnace thermostat set around 65. Its in the same room as the wood stove so if that room gets down to 65 the rest of the house is cooler. It often kicks on before dawn and runs a couple hours till we get a fire made in the stove and the stove room warms back up. If the power went out it wouldn't be that difficult to keep the stove going hot 24/7 but I guess I'm just not that hard core either. But its good to know we can if the need were to arise.

Even before the wood stove we had trouble with the pipe to the toilet at the rear of the first floor freezing with prolonged spells of single digit cold snaps. When the natural gas furnace in the basement never kicks on due to the wood stove the basement gets really cold. I just brought a baseboard style 120v oil core electric heater home from the office to place under the pipes to the rear bathroom tonight, since we are expecting some bitter cold tomorrow and Monday/Tuesday.

 

We have two stoves and both are going now and its 7 degrees but it feels colder. I will continue to run the stoves until I get tired of it. I hear you though, it does get tiresome after a while, especially with all the loading. For now I enjoy maintaining the stoves and keeping them going. Usually in late February or early march I take a break and run the furnace. I do run it about once a week for about 15 minutes to make sure everything is running properly.

 

I dont have anything but the stove so no throwing in the towel unless I run out of wood then Ill throw it in the stove With tomorrows forecast of a high around 32* and a low of 17* well be breaking out the electric space heaters because thats just way to cold for us and Ill also be breaking out some kiln dried wood for the overnight burn.

 

I will never give in to mother nature, all wood heat or bust. I am ready.

 

Even with the bedroom cold, I still wake up sweating. Definitely can't sleep in the stove room.

 

I'd pay for those types of temps right now!

 

I have a furnace but no proPain. We are running a space heater now in the babies room.

 

High was 14 today at noon, right now it's 4(my thermometer shows 2) with a forecast of -1 for tonight. These are weather.com temps we are usually a little lower since we're on the outskirts. Tonight I'll be burning white oak, locust and ash. I'm considering closing the doors to my living room which knocks about 300sq' out of the heat equation. Usually don't do that until the low single digits hit. Furnace has no chance of turning on, t-stat set at 60 and no way no how will it be able to get that cold with a full load in the BK's belly in just a 10 hour overnight burn.

Can't hardly wait for next week, Monday 4/-6, Tuesday 2/1, that will be fun.