We have a Jotul insert that I burn on days below freezing, which means in the winter it will run for many days consecutively, which was as early as November this year. It does quite a good job heating nearly the whole house thanks to the chimney being in the center. After about two days of running, the walls around the chimney are warm to the touch on the second floor. We have an oil fired steam boiler which I run for about an hour in the morning to keep it alive and to warm up the house after a cold night. The far end of the house us heated by a Fujitsu minisplit always on, a low temperature heating model designed to operate at rated output down to -4F, with other units in the rest of the rooms turned on if needed.
It takes a bit of adjustment and some logistics to keep three heating sources working in harmony, but overall keeps the house very warm and doesn't cost much. Our first year here burning only oil we spent $1000/month (when oil was $4/gallon). I'd guess we're running at about $300/month now. I get the chimney cleaned once a year... how dirty is it really depends on the quality of the wood I burn. I can get a feeling by how much creosote builds up on the glass door of the stove. This year I'm burning wood from a tree we cut down about 4 years ago and its well seasoned... lights up easily and keeps the glass clean. Today its in the 60s... last week we hit -2. Jaime On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:58 PM Dwight Giles via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Err- a chimney fire in the chimney I had not cleaned in awhile-cold > winter, icy roof, busy etc etc, Fortunately we had no fire extension into > the surrounding walls. > Dwight E. Giles Jr. > Wickford RI > > > On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:38 PM Craig via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:28:26 -0500 Dwight Giles via Mercedes > > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > > > > Yes, I used to clean out our chimney a couple times a season with > > > constant wood burning in our Vermont Castings. (6-7 cords a season) > > > Then there is the time I didn't and had to call my fellow firefighters. > > > How embarrassing. Dwight E. Giles Jr. > > > > And what prompted the embarrasing call to your fellow firefighters? > > > > > > Craig > > > > _______________________________________ > > http://www.okiebenz.com > > > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- Jaime Kopchinski http://www.jaimekop.com/ _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
