How much wood do you use in a season?

That sort of depends how warm you like it, how open the floor plan is, etc. We have a small house, about 1100 sf, very open plan. We have a Hearthstone soapstone wood stove we have installed in the fireplace. Takes about one and a half (full) cords for a winter for us, usually, and we heat exclusively with wood, though we do have a heatpump.


Congratulations!

 

We have a very small house like 1200 sqft. My Husband has an old big woodstove in our basement. We leave the basement door open which is located in the center of the house and the woodstove is to the lef under our living room, dining room, and kitchen. Our bedrooms are to the right at the other end. I tell you all of this b/c my husband did this purposely b/c he likes it cold when he sleeps but, warm while lounging and cooking in the house. We can fit a wheel barrow full per day and We approimately go through 3 cord of wood per year and 2 tanks of oil 220 gallons that heats our hot water too. We can't light our woodstove unless daytime temps are below 55 degrees or we roast!!!! LOL

We usually keep a few windows cracked in the home allday and night for fresh air. And I walk around in tee shirts and shorts in the house b/c it can get up to 80+ degrees easy somedays.

Hope this is helpful. I don't live in Canada but, in New England/CT on a mountainside that has alot of shade the way the sun rises and sets.

Best Wishes on your new Farm and woodstove venture!!

 

ETA: Our soapstone stove doesn't have a blower. Isn't needed with the efficiency of the stove and the open floor plan we have.

 

I use between 1 to 2 cords a year depending on the winter. However I have a house built in the 70's and is well insulated, plus we have one of those 70's "airtight" woodstoves the EPA won't let manufacturers make anymore cause they are too efficient and you have to manually operate them with knowledge or you may create a creosote problem and burn down your house.
Your climate and your house and your situation will dictate how much wood you use. My house is also orientated to maximize winter sun into the windows and minimize summer sun into the windows by the eaves arrangement-----your house has to have been built that way to do that.

You can start reading here: http://www.motherearthnews.com/search.aspx?search=woodstoves

 

We have about a 1200 sf home and heat exclusively with wood. House is fairly well insulated, but with kids and a working farm, the doors are being opened and closed hundreds of times a day it seems. Also my wife is very cold natured and likes to keep the house a lot hotter than is comfortable for me. Most years we use around 5 face cords. Our heater is one of those odd built things, will ony burn 18" wood at the longest.

We could probably get by with three face cord in a year if we needed to.

 

we use around 3 to 4 cords per winter the wood stove is our primary source of heat. please be sure to clean your chimney and stove pipe regularly we have a triple walled steel chimney. i also do not recomend ever using a csl log that caused our chimney to back up when the cap pluged up with creosote. you will enjoy having one when the power goes out you can cook on it to if need be we have lol it was the best spaghetti we have ever had.

 

We ran about 5 cords last winter because the snow and bitter cold temps would not go away. Almost seemed like it was below freezing for a month straight. A normal winter sees about 3 cords of wood used.