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DeerFlyHater t1_j732ybx wrote

Reply to comment by Delicious-Basil4986 in Don't Underestimate The Cold by TheCloudBoy

They're not.

Holier than thou folks are just being their typical selves.

It's a balmy 72 in the house right now heating with the wood stove. It will be over 60 in the house when I wake up. Other portions of the house, such as the basement, is heated by other sources.

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ReauxChambeaux t1_j736kn2 wrote

My living room hit 91° today. Decided to close the damper a bit.

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TheCloudBoy OP t1_j736ew8 wrote

I'm curious: how many square feet are you heating with the pellet stove, do you have some sort of circulation system near it that more effectively distributes heat around the house, and is your house better insulated to begin with?

My parents ditched their pellet stove over a decade ago because it could not effectively heat portions of the house and relied on oil-fired

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DeerFlyHater t1_j749ued wrote

I'm in a tiny rental house-built within the last 20 years and is pretty tight. 1K sq ft upstairs and it is heated by the wood stove only. It's a small all steel instead of cast iron stove, so it warms up quick but also drops off quick. It has electric heat as a backup that I set at 50 and it never comes on.

Edit to add, no circulation needed due to the layout of the house. The general theory with circulation is push the denser cold air towards the heated part.

The downstairs(house is on a slab so it's a garage) is another 1K sq ft with all the water stuff and laundry room. It is heated by electric garage heaters. Those heaters are crazy expensive to run.

Downstairs is set at 50 with the temp checked a few times a day, upstairs is whatever the woodstove feels like doing. See the above post of the guy at 91. With the exception of just before bed time, I try to keep it in the 70s but sometimes it gets nuts.

I'm having a 1400 sq ft house built in Coös County. The basement will be oil fired radiant heat in the floor. So will the main floor, but I plan on heating it with a wood stove and using oil as the backup. I have a Hearthstone Green Mountain 60 sitting at the dealer, waiting for my builder to be ready for it. I may need to use some sort of circulation to move heat around. I'll find out next winter.

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CPUequalslotsofheat t1_j76mcaq wrote

Do you have good windows, or, how do you keep them leak proof.

I read your above post about your house being 72 degrees which is pretty good during Arctic blast. Upper midwest here, so I do know a thing about cold..😪

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DeerFlyHater t1_j76vhpx wrote

They're just normal double pane windows with the typical draft here and there, but they are pretty tight. No idea what brand.

Sitting at 73 degrees inside right now. I did wake up a bit early at 6 to feed the woodstove though.

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Delicious-Basil4986 t1_j73sief wrote

I was wondering. Ours keeps half the house 70 or so and the wood stove heats the other half. Now the mini split on the other hand...

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