How much wood do you burn

[Mighty Dodge]

My house is about 2000 sf. Have a Fisher Grandma Bear in the basement. It keeps the house 75 degrees or more if I want. Go through 2-1/2 to 3 cords a season burning mostly oak.

John

 

[94BULLITT]

I go through a 1/4 cord or so a week. I am heating 1500 sq ft and the basement so 3000 sq ft. I am using a Quadrafire 5700. I primarily burn oak.

 

[D7E]

1500ft 1960's house but well insulated and modernized , 26 x 30 in old woodburner (as old as the house) in the basement . I sell firewood , over 100 cords most winters so i tend to burn the less than perfect stuff that gets thrown to the side when loading like oversized/rotten/knotty etc and being manitoba it is mostly poplar/maple with some oak ash occasionaly but 10-12 cords is normal over 6 months of temps down to -35c or( 5 of these trailer loads ) .

 

[hr3]

Don't forget to tell us what your stove is, where its at and how well insulated your house is.

Sorry,, I use and Englander add on warm air wood stove http://www.homedepot.com/catalog/productImages/145/6c/6c06e8fa-1522-462c-8f29-d32086cc6661_145.jpg This one !!
It's about 10 years old and works fantastic.. House is built in 70 so the walls are only 3.5" but the celling is 12".. Ooo and if the sun shines I can heat 3 of the rooms with solar warm air,,

 

[bp fick]

House is 1100 sq ft. Insulation is good, but certainly nothing like the modern, super insulated houses.

Open type floor plan, ranch style. Simple, very small US Stove, the smallest they make. Heats the first floor very comfortably. Will not do anything for the basement, of course, but that stays around 58F all by itself.

Used a bit over 2 cord and our winters are very, very tough. It is very efficient and the house is toasty. We burn scrub oak off our property.

But one is a slave to the wood stove when it is this small. Very low wood use, but very high in attention. Only holds 2 or 3 pieces, 14" long. Constant feeding. Ash removal twice a week.

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[EHR]

We have a woodstock fireview stove in the lower level of the house. It is heating over 2600 sq ft with 15 ft ceilings upstairs. The lower level where the stove is located is a walkout basement area that is now an inlaw. Upstairs is 38x46 with cathederal ceings throughout at 15 ft. The home is super insulated so we burn 2 1/2 cords of mixed wood. Currently we are boiling mape sap down so the stove is going when we really do not need it.

 

[WayneB]

I go through a 1/4 cord or so a week. I am heating 1500 sq ft and the basement so 3000 sq ft. I am using a Quadrafire 5700. I primarily burn oak.

Are you talking face cord or full cord? Just curious??

 

[WayneB]

Our house is about 1900 sqft two story and we heat the place with a single wood stove (Vermont Casting Defiant) open concept floor plan so the downstairs stays between 70+ where the stove is and mid to high 60痴 in the kitchen area. The bedrooms up stairs stay in the high 60痴 to low 70痴. On a normal year we will go through about 4 full cords of wood. I have looked into a pellet furnace (boiler) but just can稚 pull the trigger on the one due ot the base price. I turned off the boiler four years ago and we will only fire it up when we know we are going away for an extended period of time. We used it four days during the holidays to heat the older part of the house so I am guessing we used 8 to 10 gallons of oil this year.

Wayne

 

[94BULLITT]

Are you talking face cord or full cord? Just curious??

Regular cord.

 

[dmccarty]

The first few years we used 4-5 measured cords. The last two years I have not had time to cut and split that much wood so we have learned to burn "cheaper." To use 4-5 cords we run the stove 24 hours. Now, we will let the fire burn out and restart the fire when needed. Fire starter wood is easy to find around the house, cord wood, not so much. :laughing::laughing::laughing: This year and last we burned around two cords.

I like the term "shoulder months." For December and January we would normally burn a cord each month. The shoulder months of Nov and Feb would be 1/2-3/4 of a cord each with Oct and Mar being 1/2 cord or so. But the weather is the weather so it varies. Last October was not that cold but this March sure the heck is cold.

Our house is well insulated, and while we have a huge number of windows, they are casements and they do not leak air at all. The Osburn stove is rated for an 1800-2200 sf house but we have 2400+ with 10 foot ceilings and an open floor plan. The stove works well for 95% of the cold weather. When burning the stove I can get the stove side of the house up to 80-82 degrees which makes the wife happy. The rest of the house will be 5-10 degree cooler depending on the outside temperature.

The wood we burn is almost entirely oak, mostly red with some white. I might have an Ash or Sweet Gun from time to time.

I was hoping to cut up some trees into rounds today but I have a PV solar class to go to today... I hope I can find the time to get the wood done or we will be short of wood again next season.

Later,
Dan