How are you going to heat this winter?

First Warrior

Just wanted to know what you folks heat with over the winter. We have been burning wood for the past 30 years. We heat two buildings with wood, my studio and our house. I bought a load of red oak ( 22 logs ranging from 22"dia to 14" dia 16 feet long) took a week with a borrowed wood splitter and a chainsaw and I got this stack. The double stack is 32 ft long and about 3 ft wide. I've got another log load coming that's all black locust. The wood warms you twice, once when you cut and split it and once when you burn it.

Rain

Texas.

honorknight7

Stubble

Open doors and windows....

Eulogy

It doesn't get that cold where I live. When I do get the fireplace going, its more for looks then heat.

bbass2

Natural gas with fireplace to help. The fireplace insert isn't vented so it doesn't throw enough heat to make that the primary heat source.

Brianak

FireRob

Rain:

Texas.

Stubble:

Open doors and windows....

Yep, and on really cold days put on pants and long sleeves or just wait a few hours maybe at most a day or two then put shorts and a T-shirt back on

First Warrior

You guys are breaking this old man's balls. In Jan sometimes I spend all day in my insulated coverhalls. I carry the firewood into my studio with a wheelbarrow. There are ski slopes over in Banner Elk eight miles from our home. Don't enjoy shoveling snow but got to. My truck and Lucy's car are four wheel drives.

WaltBasil

Natural gas, forced air, etc. But I do plan on buying and installing a wood burning stove one day. I was going to do that this year, but my idea of saving up for buying an RV next year took over any plans for that wad of dough. Maybe in a couple years. Love the smell of a house heated by wood. That's a fine pile of wood you've made.

dr_frankenstein56

WaltBasil

dr_frankenstein56

90+ Irishman

Live in a town home so it's has heating here in CO for us, house stays toasty warm at about 74 degrees all winter. Our old place used to have a wood burning fireplace which was amazing but we had to move out of there years ago which stinks. No fireplace of any kind in our current one, not even a fake. Hope that when we end up buying our first house I can find one with a real fireplace, I've missed that smell and ambiance.

Bob Luken

WaltBasil

dr_frankenstein56

First Warrior

Athough we burn wood for our primary heat source we have secondary sources also. Our house has a kerosine fired Monitor 41 that we run when we have to leave and don't want to leave our Vermont Castings wood stove unattended. The Monitor works good and we burn about 250 gallons of fuel each winter. My studio has a ceiling hung propane fired radiant tube heater that i only run in the morning as I fire up my Consolated Dutchwest woodstove. Both of these heat sources need electricty to operate. When I built my studio I laid the building out to face south and added a 24 inch overhang on the roof. I've got large windows and the overhang allows the sun into the building in the winter but when the sun is higher in the summer the overhange shades the windows. Passive solar is what someone called it. One thing about woodstoves is the work involved. Wood in, ashes out, clean the flue, etc. Chimney fires are a threat and if you have one that gets really hot it can crack a flue liner. If the liner is fractured the cresote finds it's way into the cracks as you burn more wood. The next chimney fire you have the cresote can burn in the cracks and migrate into what is around the chimney, like framing. A lot of folks up here burn wood and there are houses lost to chimney fires every year. So, everyone stay safe and if you have a chimney fire shut off the oxygen at the stove and it will go out. You may want to sleeve the flue with stainless steel pipe. I got to get up on our roofs and punch out our flues, tomorrow, maybe a cigar for a reward afterwards.

blutattoo

Where I live we can't burn fire wood on a lot of days since the particulate matter just hovers over the valley and causes smog. On those days it's a natural gas furnace. Luckily our gas company is pretty cheap here, since my wife can't tolerate anything less than 70 degrees year round.

jlmarta

jd50ae

Personal heat generators (Sophie, River, Cally, Molly, Little Guy) under the blanky.