Woodstoves

[bluey]

We just cleaned the chimney last week and fired up the wood stove last weekend for the first time. How awesome is it not paying a dime for heating oil, gas etc... We have propane backup but it lasts years. All of our wood comes just from the fallen trees on the combined properties of ours and my FIL (130+ acres). You just can't beat free heat (well, except for the wood cutting labor needed).

Warm and toasty in PA....

 

[mmajw]

We have had ours going for a few weeks now. When you wake up and its 25 outside and 50 something inside you know its about that time.

 

[ibpboo]

No wood stove here. Only one wall propane heater in living room. Two of the 3 bedrooms are right off the living room, so it heats all three rooms, with a curtain hanging in the doorway to keep heat in front part of house. Kitchen, well it has to get warm whenever I cook, so its freezing in the am making coffee. And the 3rd bedroom in the back, well mostly it stays freezing in there, but we do have electric heaters that we can move from room to room. In the two bedrooms off the living room, we do not keep lv room heated all night so we close the doors and use little heaters to take off chill. Couple weeks ago it was in the 30's at night, my car was frozen every day of the week going to work. But this past week it has been warmed up again, and it is usually 47* out when I leave for work.

 

[redoak]

We've had our woodstove going for about a week now. If it gets sunny we let it go out during the day. It's a soapstone woodstove so even when it's out for a few hours it holds some heat. I've cut 35 face cord so far this year for our house and my mom's house. We have an oil furnace as back-up heat, but it only kicked on once last year.

 

[skand]

Quote:
What part of Maine? My ole man's from Ellsworth.

 

[mmajw]

Central Maine Gardiner area.

 

[kinnip]

Oooo I have my woodstove in pieces on the floor. I wish I were firing it up right now.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

We have a gas fireplace in our townhouse... That thing puts out better heat than our furnace. We just turned on the pilot light again last weekend so that we can use it to heat the upstairs.

I grew up in a house that had both a woodstove and a furnace connected to the heating ducts, and we could switch between them. We could always tell when my dad was using the woodstove because the house warmed up faster.

When we build a house, we are definitely getting a woodstove for it.

 

[k0xxx]

We have our first freeze of the season predicted for tonight. So I know we'll finally fire up the wood stove in the morning.

We have the intake for our central air directly over the wood stove. That way we can circulate the warmer air throughout the house by just running the central air fan.

Does anyone have one of those non-electric (stirling engine) fans that sit on top of the wood stove and operate just off of the heat? We've been thinking about getting one for moving the warm air when the electricity goes out, but they are a bit pricey and we have been wondering if they are worth it.

 

[kstaven]

Only 30 degrees here this morning. This will be the first year we have ever had to fire up the woodstove in October. What happened to global warming?