I was never able to adjust to “wood stove” heat.
I’ve been burning wood for heat since the late 70’s. Started with a barrel stove built from a kit, fabricated the next couple from scratch, used a couple different wood stoves, built one, and finally went to a wood-fired furnace tied into the forced air heating ducts. I don’t care for the wood stove (space heater) type of wood-fired appliance because of the temperature differences throughout the house. It’s flat uncomfortable to me when one room of the house is 80[sup]o[/sup] and the far bedroom is 60[sup]o[/sup]. I don’t like fans sitting around blowing heat through doorways, creating drafts and raising dust. When I’m in the house during heating season I like to strip down to the long-johns, or slip into a pair of sweats, and be comfortable barefoot anywhere I choose to be in the house… hence the wood-fired furnace in the basement, tied into the heading ducts, pulling air across a filter and distributing the heat evenly throughout the entire house.
I’m (or we’re) comfortable with the house a bit over 70[sup]o[/sup], and strive to keep it between 70[sup]o[/sup] and 72[sup]o[/sup] with the old manually regulated furnace. Of course it ain’t that simple or easy with overnights, changing outside temps and human error… Most of the time we can keep it right where we like it, but we don’t get too excited if an oops causes a 68[sup]o[/sup] morning or a 74[sup]o[/sup] evening. But at 67[sup]o[/sup] the family is pulling up blankets and I’m lookin’ for my slippers… And at 75[sup]o[/sup] we start strippin’ down to underwear.
We had to stop burning wood in the house for a few years because of some health issues with my daughter and we set the gas furnace to 71[sup]o[/sup] during that time… figured if I’m gonna’ pay I might as well be comfortable.