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[kinetic]

Baseboard heat is the worst. It was our emergency heat if the wood stove went out.

 

[racerboy71]

Baseboard heat is the worst. It was our emergency heat if the wood stove went out.

how'd you like having a wood stove for heat kinetic??

a lot of houses i've looked at in maine have all had wood stoves as their only means of heating the house, and it seemed like a lot of work to me..

 

[joe macclennan]

yeh, I had a gro set up one time and started having tremendous problems getting the house cool. Only burning around 3k lights and had close to 5 tons of a/c in the house but just couldn't keep temps under control. Of course it was 100+deg f. that summer but still.... Electric bill also went through the roof. Several months later we discovered a 1500w baseboard with the t stat broken. That fucker was running on full blast all summer

Huge fucking house and we didn't use most of it. The heater was in an area we didn't frequent often.
Electric co. probably loved us that summer.

oh well, lesson learned.

 

[Bombur]

how'd you like having a wood stove for heat kinetic??

a lot of houses i've looked at in maine have all had wood stoves as their only means of heating the house, and it seemed like a lot of work to me..

The real work is chopping wood. This can be remedied by buying pellets wood stoves are tight

 

[kinetic]

how'd you like having a wood stove for heat kinetic??

a lot of houses i've looked at in maine have all had wood stoves as their only means of heating the house, and it seemed like a lot of work to me..

It is alot of work. It's also the greatest heat you can get. I have a family member that runs a boiler system wood fed. My brother used to run wood pellets, he liked those alot and it gave off nice heat. Lots of maintenance too. Gotta make sure the creosote is cleaned out every year, we had two chimney fires. Well, one was just the top on the chimney that got a paper lodged in and heated up the tin catch. It is good to keep you in shape, it helps to have help too.

 

[Bombur]

It is alot of work. It's also the greatest heat you can get. I have a family member that runs a boiler system wood fed. My brother used to run wood pellets, he liked those alot and it gave off nice heat. Lots of maintenance too. Gotta make sure the creosote is cleaned out every year, we had two chimney fires. Well, one was just the top on the chimney that got a paper lodged in and heated up the tin catch. It is good to keep you in shape, it helps to have help too.

Seems there's a lot more to it than I thought!

 

[joe macclennan]

how'd you like having a wood stove for heat kinetic??

a lot of houses i've looked at in maine have all had wood stoves as their only means of heating the house, and it seemed like a lot of work to me..

love my stove. Saves me close to 2k a year in heating costs.

Yep, it's a lot of work but i'd rather work for myself than work for someone else, and pay taxes on said work, just to give it to the heat bill guy.

I'm sure in maine the savings would be even greater.

Plus, I just enjoy being in the woods, and felling trees is quite interesting to me. We take bets on who can drop their trees closest to the target zones. I'm certainly no expert but i've learned quite a bit.

Plastic wedges are my friend

 

[kinetic]

Seems there's a lot more to it than I thought!

My dad took an old car hood, 70's green, and harnessed our dog to it. Threw a bunch of wood on top of it and the dog pulled it through the snow about 125 yards from the clearing to the back of the house.

 

[joe macclennan]

Gotta make sure the creosote is cleaned out every year, o.

I brush mine most every month through the winter. So paranoid about a chimney fire.

I it helps to have help too.

definitely.. Two guys together can easily do the same work as three individually.

 

[Bombur]

My dad took an old car hood, 70's green, and harnessed our dog to it. Threw a bunch of wood on top of it and the dog pulled it through the snow about 125 yards from the clearing to the back of the house.

Lol good thinking, dogs are the shit

 

[racerboy71]

love my stove. Saves me close to 2k a year in heating costs.

Yep, it's a lot of work but i'd rather work for myself than work for someone else, and pay taxes on said work, just to give it to the heat bill guy.

I'm sure in maine the savings would be even greater.

Plus, I just enjoy being in the woods, and felling trees is quite interesting to me. We take bets on who can drop their trees closest to the target zones. I'm certainly no expert but i've learned quite a bit.

Plastic wedges are my friend

where i'm at now, we have an oil fed boiler, steam radiator heat, oh yeah, really efficient let me tell you.. NOT.. Plus, oil's probably close to $5 / gallon now as well.. really hate winter time bills..

 

[Red1966]

I call bullshit on the ac being the culprit. No way. More like an old appliance stuck on or something. I had a friend who had his electric bill go up like 500 in one month. It ended up being an old washing machine that was plugged in had the timer stuck and was drawing juice like mad. and I meant the previous bill would be good to disguise a grow for new owners. edit: a baseboard heater stuck on is a likely culprit as well. I've also seen this before.

He lived there 12 years. Probably had leaking ducts or no insulation. Or his kids left the windows and doors open. I know what you meant about disguise.

 

[kinetic]

He lived there 12 years. Probably had leaking ducts or no insulation. Or his kids left the windows and doors open. I know what you meant about disguise.

Hit those pipes with some mastic. My buddy just bought a house and I told him I would come seal the duct joints for him.

 

[joe macclennan]

Hey kinetic, I remember you saying once that you guys burned around 40 cords a year right? That has to be softwoods right? I just can't fathom burning that much oak or hickory.

 

[racerboy71]

Hey kinetic, I remember you saying once that you guys burned around 40 cords a year right? That has to be softwoods right? I just can't fathom burning that much oak or hickory.

40 chords a year?? holy poo, i don't know much, but i know that sounds like an eff ton..

 

[Red1966]

40 chords a year?? holy poo, i don't know much, but i know that sounds like an eff ton..

1 chord = 4ft x 4ft x 8ft stack. 40 cords is a hell of a lot of fire wood. Must be some mistake.

 

[kinetic]

Maple, Oak, birch, walnut NO pines, sometimes cherry but that was rare. Our house was pretty big, my bedroom was 18x20 ish with a closet, old farmhouse lathe and plaster so not very well insulated and we kept it shorts in january warm at times.

 

[kinetic]

1 chord = 4ft x 4ft x 8ft stack. 40 cords is a hell of a lot of fire wood. Must be some mistake.

No mistake. We did 55 the worst year. Everyone thinks I'm nuts. I even went back and asked my father just to make sure I remember correctly.

 

[joe macclennan]

He lived there 12 years. Probably had leaking ducts or no insulation. Or his kids left the windows and doors open. I know what you meant about disguise.

My kids and wife only know how to open windows and turn on lights. Not close them or turn them off....... seriously.

Drives me nucking futs.

We also like our place cold in the summer and keep it @ around 68 f. My ac runs virtually non stop all summer and my place is over 2k sq. ft. Our bill rarely goes over 400 and this is running several K in lights as well. Now I do have a good ac and installed it myself. Sealed every joint, Built every fitting and also insulated it all. I guarantee I have no leaks. It's my profession.

I'm rather proud of my system...It's a masterpiece. Now to get the heat exchanger on my wood stove ducted in to my house ducting..... One day.


100 yr. old homes can be energy hogs. I assume the place you speak of is similar.

 

[Red1966]

Maple, Oak, birch, walnut NO pines, sometimes cherry but that was rare. Our house was pretty big, my bedroom was 18x20 ish with a closet, old farmhouse lathe and plaster so not very well insulated and we kept it shorts in january warm at times.

How many stoves? Couldn't burn that much in just one.