Heating your house

[reynoldston]

It just got to the point that heating my house with fuel oil anymore is gotten out of sight. I now have to pay 4.00 dollars a gallon for heating oil. I have installed a insert into my fire place and heat with wood. I have 5 acres of woods and get some of my wood from there. I have found I can be very comfortable now and not worry what it is costing me to keep my house temperature around 80%. I also find I am not the only one that enjoys the heat.

 

[scott47429]

It just got to the point that heating my house with fuel oil anymore is gotten out of sight. I now have to pay 4.00 dollars a gallon for heating oil. I have installed a insert into my fire place and heat with wood. I have 5 acres of woods and get some of my wood from there. I have found I can be very comfortable now and not worry what it is costing me to keep my house temperature around 80%. I also find I am not the only one that enjoys the heat.

i also heat with wood i have a wood stove i put in 3 years ago and i love it i get my wood from my brothers woods sometimes or i have a tree trimmer that gives me all the wood i want if i go pick it up at his site hes cutting at it took my electric bill from 600 a month for the 2 coldest months to 200 bucks a month pretty much all winter long so far i havent spent any money to buy wood other then what i spend in gas and oil for the saw and truck so its pretty cheap 3 years ago i had two months in a row of 600 a month heating bill i spent 1400 to put in the stove so i figure it paid for its self the first winter

 

[okiepc]

I have been heating my house for the last 23 years with 75% wood heating, on really cold mornings I will kick on the gas heat to take the chill off then start a fire. I love wood heat, like cutting and splitting as it helps keep me in decent shape, no down side for me.:thumbsup:

 

[Carscw]

On very cold mournings I fire up the propane heaters. Only used 25 gallons this year

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[reynoldston]

On very cold mournings I fire up the propane heaters. Only used 25 gallons this year

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25 gallons wouldn't go very far here in northern NY. When it below -0 I also fire up the oil furnace in the morning to warm my floors up.

 

[Carscw]

25 gallons wouldn't go very far here in northern NY. When it below -0 I also fire up the oil furnace in the morning to warm my floors up.

I remember using a oil furnace growing up on cape cod. Down here they have no clue what a oil furnace is.

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[SeniorCitizen]

I remember using a oil furnace growing up on cape cod. Down here they have no clue what a oil furnace is.

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I suspect the same thing could be said about up there and propane . :laughing: And you would really loose them if you said you were going to air your tires with propane.

 

[Parkmower]

It just got to the point that heating my house with fuel oil anymore is gotten out of sight. I now have to pay 4.00 dollars a gallon for heating oil. I have installed a insert into my fire place and heat with wood. I have 5 acres of woods and get some of my wood from there. I have found I can be very comfortable now and not worry what it is costing me to keep my house temperature around 80%. I also find I am not the only one that enjoys the heat.

I have a similar insert and was wondering if you have s liner and what size and material.
I have no liner. The fireplace damper was removed. It's an interior chimney that is brick and the chimney the woodburner uses is 12"x12" with a stainless cap. A sweep that I had look at it and cleaned it when we moved in. He removed the old damper and said it had great draw and just have it swept every 4 cords. I Only burn occasionally but would like to burn regularly and thinkin of maybe installing a liner. It hasn't been swept in 5 years but I haven't burned more than 2 cords in that time.
Any thoughts?

 

[Carscw]

I suspect the same thing could be said about up there and propane . :laughing: And you would really loose them if you said you were going to air your tires with propane.

Very true.

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[reynoldston]

I have a similar insert and was wondering if you have s liner and what size and material.
I have no liner. The fireplace damper was removed. It's an interior chimney that is brick and the chimney the wood burner uses is 12"x12" with a stainless cap. A sweep that I had look at it and cleaned it when we moved in. He removed the old damper and said it had great draw and just have it swept every 4 cords. I Only burn occasionally but would like to burn regularly and thinkin of maybe installing a liner. It hasn't been swept in 5 years but I haven't burned more than 2 cords in that time.
Any thoughts?

I did my home work when I install mine. The old fire place damper was also removed from mine and my chimney is brick with a 12X12 tile liner. My wood burner has a 6 in. stainless steel chimney liner insert with a cap on top which I bought as a kit with the heater. The hotter you can run your chimney the better everything will work. I burn over 19 in. long 12 face cord a year and clean my pipes every other year so that is 24 face cord between cleanings. I am running mine hot in the day time and cooler when I go to bed and it never goes out. I try to keep 3 to 4 ins, of hot charcoal to run my fire in and only clean out the ashes once a week and that is only about a haft of a steel pail of fine ash a week. In the real cold weather I will run my oil furnace for a short time in the AM to heat my floors. I like my house warm but if it gets too warm I open the windows to cool it off. I do cut some of my own wood but have found I buy most of my wood from a person that cuts wood for a liveing and only charges 65 dollars a face cord and for that type of money its too much work to cut much of my own.