I’m Done with Firewood!

[Gypo Logger]

Well , not totally. I burned a full cord of wood this past week due to temps dropping as low as minus 52!
The good news is I got electric heat installed today. Two 2000 watt heaters so now I can starve the stove for air and don’t have to wear a snowsuit and touque to bed anymore and no more three dog nights!
Is this the beginning of the end?

 

[cuinrearview]

Nobody likes a quitter

 

[motorhead99999]

I’ll sleep in the idling truck before I wear a snow suit to bed lol. Temps finally warming up a litttle bit here.

 

[Mike Van]

That electric heat is fast & easy....................until the power goes out -

 

[Natster]

More insulation, better crack sealing.
Buy about 10 or 20 moving blankets, sew them together, or nail them to a board, and put the board up, to reduce the area you are heating.
And snuggle with someone you love!
N

 

[Brushwacker]

Wood heat feels better when you come in from the wet and cold, but its nice to have additional convenient heat at the same time.

 

[066blaster]

I wouldn't want to try heating my house at minus 52. I definitely would need my electric baseboard heaters going. The coldest I've seen here is minus 30 and that was tough.

 

[Deleted member 117362]

Electric heat is expensive, house was built with it and well insulated! LP is crazy, at mercy of supplier! Natural gas would be the game changer for me. I will stick with wood for now, or until I can no longer do it.

 

[Ted Jenkins]

I do have some propane powered space heaters, but since house was new it has been firewood and firewood. R 40 in all the walls R 80 in ceiling 10 % glass and R 60 in the floor makes it easy to keep comfortable. I only burn what I can not sell. Minus 5 or minus 10 is the coldest it has ever been here. A average winter sees a lot of 20's and 30's but not minus 50. Thanks

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

I'd go poor if I had to heat with 4kw electric. That's close to $1 an hour. If it ran 10hrs a day that would be $240 a month.

 

[Marley5]

I'd have to load my boiler every 3 hrs at -52 with the gas logs running.
It was 13* here this morning which was the low for the winter and doesn't happen often.

Ya'll tough up north.

 

[kyle1!]

Those little heaters will only knock the frost off of Gypo's nose at -52. I use a couple to keep my well shack from freezing in the 0 to 30F temps but when it starts to head for -15F with a windchill of -50F the Mr. Buddy propane heater come out.

 

[turnkey4099]

I'd go poor if I had to heat with 4kw electric. That's close to $1 an hour. If it ran 10hrs a day that would be $240 a month.

A lot of houses were built back in the day. Power companies promoted it. Very few still use it. Neigbor converted to pellet stove about 10 years ago.

 

[Big Red Oaks 4 me]

I have a modern “Dual Fuel” Trane system. So far, so good. Gas consumption is very economical, but if not for bad health, I’d still be enjoying cutting and burning wood.

 

[SS396driver]

One of my houses has electric heat the other is oil . Unfortunately I live in the electric one. It is nice at times when it's really cold I can turn up the heat in just one room like my bedroom when the stove wont keep up. And its basically 100% efficient as all the energy used is turned to heat. But its damn expensive here.

Really nice when I turn up the master bath and I dont shiver getting out of the shower.

 

[Marshy]

I see this excitement lasting until the new electric bill arrives lol.

 

[unclemoustache]

A log cabin?? Goodness! Get yerself an insulated house!

No doubt the ambiance of it is quite awesome, but the R factor stinks..

 

[turnkey4099]

A log cabin?? Goodness! Get yerself an insulated house!

No doubt the ambiance of it is quite awesome, but the R factor stinks..

??? I always heard that log cabins were very will insulated, wood itself being an insulator. Just what is the R factor for a 10" log?

 

[md1486]

I'd go poor if I had to heat with 4kw electric. That's close to $1 an hour. If it ran 10hrs a day that would be $240 a month.

Damn this is expensive up in AK. Here this is 0,06$/kwh so about 0,24$ per hour. I still burn 2-3 full cords because I have access to free logs and I enjoy it, but at 0,25$/kwh I would burn a lot more to reduce electricity bill.

 

[rarefish383]

The logs are good insulators, but if it's old school with chinking, they can leak bad. One of my customers have a log cabin built in the 1930's and they love it. But, they said it was a bear to heat, and they said it was very drafty.