I love my wood stove

[Upidstay]

Figured out that we burned 150 or so gallons of fuel oil since october. We had a cold winter, with no real warm ups to speak of. Kept the stove going around the clock, burned about 4 1/2 cord. Furnace kicked on some, but only early in the morning, generally just on very cold nights. No, I do not get up in the middle of the night to load the stove. Way to lazy for that. Most of our oil consumption was for hot water. I figure I saved at least $1500. And that's being very conservative. Probably over $2k. Stove has just about paid for itself in 3 years.

 

[saxman]

I guess I burned close to 4 cords this winter. The wife and I are so used to the wood stove that if propane was free I would still burn the stove. It has the effect of thinning a person's blood to the point that you freeze with conventional heat. Very relaxing to sleep in the easy chair next to the wood stove on a cold winter's night!

 

[audible fart]

I use zero oil or gas, heat exclusively with wood, and when I average my winter months electric bills, it comes to about $55 per month. Can anybody here beat that?

 

[darkbyrd]

I use zero oil or gas, heat exclusively with wood, and when I average my winter months electric bills, it comes to about $55 per month. Can anybody here beat that?

Right there with you, maybe $60/mo electric, year 'round. We do alot of laundry . Wood heat + no AC = CHEAP BILLS!

 

[audible fart]

Right there with you, maybe $60/mo electric, year 'round. We do alot of laundry . Wood heat + no AC = CHEAP BILLS!

I live a stone's throw from the water and have a ceiling fan in every room, so I can just leave the little window ac for the very hottest weeks. I didn't know how much I needed ceiling fans until we installed them.

 

[Circle B MN]

Right there with you, maybe $60/mo electric, year 'round. We do alot of laundry . Wood heat + no AC = CHEAP BILLS!

Same here. All wood heat, house and shop. I do burn gas for the shower and cooking, but it works out to about $400 a year tops....

 

[flyboy553]

I heat exclusively with wood and will end up around 10.5 to 11 full cords, heating this screened in porch I call a house. Only LP is for the water heater, which uses about 4 100 pounders a year.

 

[wackydeejay]

We have 4 kids, so we still use more electricity than I would like. But, since we got our stove, our average winter electric bill dropped from $650/month to $175. I would guess most of our juice goes to heat the water between showers and laundry. We paid about $1400 for our stove. We made that back in the first 3 months we used it.

 

[arlen]

Wood stove

I got tired of paying about $700 dollars every other month for propane, and I live in San Diego. So I bought a small wood stove from Ace Hardware free shipping around $550 when I finished installing the triple wall vent and the single wall vent in the house it was a little more than $1,000. The little stove really heats up half of the home I use the central heat on fan only to spread through my small 1500' home. I have plenty of eucalyptus I scrounge around town. looking forward to saving money. The stove heats up the house really warm line 75 degrees in the used to be cold part of my home. I like the feel of the wood heat and watching the fire David:msp_smile:

 

[dave_dj1]

I didn't use any kerosene to heat my garage this winter!
Not that I heat it 24/7 but did seem to use it quite a bit this year.
I had a great time using my outside wood furnace I put together.
No I have to work on wood for next winter! LOL

 

[Motodeficient]

I live in Maine and only used about $40 worth of heating oil. That was only when it was 30 below and I let the furnace kick in because I was worried about the pipes freezing in my double wide. The rest of the time I heated exclusively with wood. I bought 5 cord of tree length for $450 last summer. Not bad heating my house in Maine for a whole winter for under $500.

 

[wackydeejay]

I live in Maine and only used about $40 worth of heating oil. That was only when it was 30 below and I let the furnace kick in because I was worried about the pipes freezing in my double wide. The rest of the time I heated exclusively with wood. I bought 5 cord of tree length for $450 last summer. Not bad heating my house in Maine for a whole winter for under $500.

What did you burn?

 

[Motodeficient]

What did you burn?

I have burned about 4 cord so far. Will probably be close to the full 5 cord by the end of the season.

 

[wackydeejay]

I have burned about 4 cord so far. Will probably be close to the full 5 cord by the end of the season.

I'm sorry. I meant what types of wood did you burn.

 

[Motodeficient]

I'm sorry. I meant what types of wood did you burn.

Maple, birch, red oak, ash, maybe some others mixed in.

 

[wackydeejay]

Maple, birch, red oak, ash, maybe some others mixed in.

Very good. I didn't know what you had access to up there.

 

[Motodeficient]

I moved into this house in April so I wasn't able to probably dry any wood. I am hoping over the next couple years as I am able to actually get some wood dried out, I will be able to use less wood than I did this year. The stove is a brand new EPA wood stove, and it should be able to burn just a stick or two of dry wood at a time. This winter with the wetter wood, I had to have it pretty much full all the time to keep it going. The red oak was pretty wet. I probably should have just stacked that seperately and not even burned it this year.

 

[wackydeejay]

Some of the old timers around here will mix in a piece of green wood with their dry stuff overnight just to keep a longer burn, but I'm not really a fan of it. The ones I know who do it get a good hot fire burning in the morning. They say it burns off the creosote accumulated overnight. Again, I would never advise anyone to actually do that...it's just what a few people around here do.

 

[colin.p]

I guess I burned close to 4 cords this winter. The wife and I are so used to the wood stove that if propane was free I would still burn the stove. It has the effect of thinning a person's blood to the point that you freeze with conventional heat. Very relaxing to sleep in the easy chair next to the wood stove on a cold winter's night!

Been many a night that I woke up at 1 or 2 in the morning in the easy chair beside the stove. One of the most relaxing things a body can do. Probably do it tonight, if I can beat the dog to the chair.