Woodstoves

[mullers3acers]

I have a cook stove in the kitchen as well that is a plus.

 

[morelcabin]

29 degrees here this morning...warming up now at 40. We've been burning for three weeks now

 

[chick_newbie]

I got poor dh to start the woodburner 2 nights ago. Been low to mid 30's here at night but still warms pretty good during the day. Luckily I am the only one home during the day and I am usually sleeping since I work at night. The good thing for those electric matress pads to keep the beds warm!!

 

[MissChessy]

Oh my goodness, ya'll are already talking about it being so cold! I'm down here on the Gulf Coast in Texas and we here can't wait for it to get "cool" so we can fire up our wood stove which is outside. We fired it up last night and roasted marshmallows as it was probably around 60 degrees and to us that is a very nice cool front. We dream of cold weather down here!

 

[ruth]

We had a new pellet stove installed in our 100 year old farmhouse just a few weeks ago and haven't had a chance to test it out. This morning it's high 60s and raining and quite chilly and I've just come in from morning chores wet and cold - so I've just fired it up (clicked remote control from sofa) and it's blazing away and the blowers are blowing nice warm air. I'm ready for winter this year.

Last year was our first winter in this old drafty house and I nearly froze to death with temps in 20s it was warmer outside than inside. We have 9 fireplaces but when we tried to light them smoke and ashes blew all over the room and no heat was being put out. We have three a/c/heat units, the one on propane, which has now been replaced by the pellet stove, was using over $300 a week. Between the three units we went through over $2,000 a month and still froze. I told DH we would do things differently this winter.

Got my blazing fire going now - sitting in front of it with a hot cup of coffee - checking out BYC - I know where I'll be when winter gets here.

11/8/08 Edited to say I took a picture of our pellet stove. Got it going right now and about to watch a movie on a chilly Saturday night.

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

It definately cooled down here, after that rain yesterday. The average all week is supposed to be in the mid 60's - which feels cold since it's been in the mid 80's up til now.

I hear we're supposed to have a colder (and snowier) than normal winter. I moved down here last fall, so I've only seen one Kentucky winter - it was NICE compared to Michigan. But I do love snow for Christmas, so a little snowier won't be so bad. I'm just wondering what "colder than normal" means down here

Last winter our temps, for the most part averaged around 32-40 during the day (except in January when it got colder). Hubby and I got more outside work done last winter than we did last fall in the heat.

We fired our woodstove up a couple of weeks ago, to burn off the coating and test it. I just have to get him to make me a woodrack for inside, so I don't have wood piled on my kitchen floor.

Peace -
Meri

 

[k0xxx]

The wife got up on the roof and cleaned the flue yesterday. We then stacked wood on the porch, so that it's stays dry and is more convenient. We can put more than half the wood that we'll need for the winter on our porch.

This morning it was cool enough in the house (about 62 degrees) that we considered lighting it, but we just added a sweater instead.

Today we are buying an electric wood splitter. We have been splitting by hand and, since we are getting older, feel that it's time to upgrade a bit. Most of our wood is smaller and we don't split enough to justify the expense of a larger, gasoline powered splitter.

Our first wood stove, a Voglezang pot belly, was purchased as more of a novelty when we bought our home eight years ago. We came to appreciate heating with wood and, the next year, upgraded to a more efficient model. We haven't used our propane central heat since.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

We had to get ours going last week. We sank down to 29F on one night. Not sure what happened to fall. We went straight from summer temps (highs in 70's & 80's) into winter temps (lows below freezing). Although, to be fair, it has moderated a bit this week.

 

[quercus21]

Today will be the first day this season that we have had the wood stove going for a full 24hrs. We have had it going early in the season just to take the chill off in the evening hours. The oil furnace won't be turned on until at least mid Dec.

 

[NurseELB]

My mom recently upgraded her wood stove- and as loyal practicioners of trickle down economics, we have upgraded to her old one. That is, If I can convince my husband to help me install it! Meantime, it's getting colder and colder at night... and we have an open chimney!