kidd Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 As I was splitting wood last nite for the house I was thinking how many of you heat their house with wood or enjoy a nice fire in the fire place? We have a quadrafire wood stove and it is our back up heat. We use it to heat the family room which is in the basement of our house. I really like a good fire!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 We heat with wood. We have a combination wood/oil furnace in the basement, but with the price of oil, we are going on 2 years without oil and just using wood. We have a small humidifier in the hallway running to moisture in the air because it gets dried out in theh ouse from the heat...or more likely our noses do,lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 No wood here. Just natural gas for heat and electricity for AC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleA Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 We'll toss some wood in the fireplace sometimes twice a year just for the sake of doing so. Dont much need it for heating but alot of homes here in South Texas have them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 We have a dual furnace, oil on one side, wood burner on the other. I go through about 2 cords a year to supplement the oil burner. Oil was around $4 a gallon last year. Over $800 to fill the dang tank up. I get firewood free except for my labor and chainsaw maintenance. I want to put one of those external fireboxes on our new house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 We burn a little wood, but not much. Rely on our electric furnace for heat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidd Posted December 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 we have geo-thermal as our primary heat but the wood stove will turn off the geo:) good tymes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 Kidd, I was thinking about posting this topic when I sat down here. I just put a load in the wood stove outside. I love it, keeps me warm and I love the smell. We are burning a lot of cherry this year. We have a big Taylor stove. We can heat my mom's catering business building and our house. We are building a small warehouse for my dad. We will be putting my truck and my brothers' truck in there too. It will be able to get the heat from our wood stove. I split so much this summer and fall. I love it though, great workout!! I'll take a picture of ours!! Its pretty big. Casey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kid Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 we heat by wood also,, the new stove my dad got really puts some heat out there,, the temp ranges anywhere from 90 to 100 degrees in the living room Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NS whitetail Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 have a woodstove in the basement with a 18"x14" grate right above it into the livingroom, the fire goes 24/7 from mid Oct till March or whenever the weather gets warmer. Sure is a big saving over electric heat ( I cut my own firewood ). The only electric heat on here is in the kids bedrooms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herriman08 Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 we heat with a outdoor wood boiler. we use on average about 10 cords of wood per winter. we start burning in the fall about octoberish and stopr in late april early may. i love wood heat esspecially when it is outside, no mess or fire danger, at least it is reduced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob LeBlanc Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 Heat almost exclusively with wood...electric in the kid's bedrooms, too, Lewis. There ain't nuthin' better to take the chill out of yer bones after a long damp, cold day in the duck / goose blind ! Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missilelock Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 I heat with wood too. I used to enjoy cutting & splitting wood, but I have been Logging for almost 20 years now & the fun of running a chain saw has kinda worn off to put it mildly. Also running through a mudhole on a 4 wheeler has kinda lost its flavor too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 the older i got, the lazier i got. i'm with orlan on this one. gas heat and electric air. for my exercise i sit in the hot tub... lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 Back home we have an electric furnace. At the rent house here we have natural gas. Mom and Dad have a wood burning heater in their house, man do I miss the smell....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Finn Posted December 2, 2008 Report Share Posted December 2, 2008 Nothing warmer than wood heat. Folks have an outdoor woodstove and it keeps the house toasty. My uncle has infloor heat and a Lopi woodstove....that's a beautiful little stove to watch a fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry264 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Just be glad you are not from the republic of caleeforneyaa. Just read yesterday somewhere where they have a new law prohibiting burning wood for heat. Sheeesh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Just be glad you are not from the republic of caleeforneyaa. Just read yesterday somewhere where they have a new law prohibiting burning wood for heat. Sheeesh. that's just one of THOUSANDS of reasons i'm glad i'm not from there....:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckslayer Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 I grew up going to the woodbox or wood pile at night, my parents used, and still use wood fireplace as a supplement to an oil furnace. Now I live in an apartment that has electric heat. I have fond memories of wood from family's camp that has both a coal stove and fireplace. Lots of chores as a kid splitting (did it by hand back then), stacking and fetching wood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 As promise, here is our wood stove. I love splitting wood!! I sing the old song by Tennessee Henry Ford, 16 Tons song when I am splitting.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamphunter Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 We heat our basement with a woodstove once it gets below zero out, and we heat our house with wood pellets. Every once and awhile we kick the furnace on also, but not very often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidd Posted December 3, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 good tymes keep them coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck2 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 Yup, nothing like wood heat for that nice, cozy feeling. Up at the farm, we used a wood/oil combo for 20 years. But the oil only kicked in if we were away long enough for the fire to burn down. Them was the good old days, when my back didn't mind cutting, loading, stacking, and splitting about 10 cords per year. Where we are now, we have a heat pump in concert with electric F/A. But we also have a pellet fireplace insert, which we use constantly and which gives that nice wood heat feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 We primarly heat our house with the electric furnace. We do have a wood stove in the rec-room downstairs that we fire up sometimes in the winter. I agree though, nothing like the heat from a wood stove! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedicast Posted December 3, 2008 Report Share Posted December 3, 2008 I live in a townhouse style condo. I'm not an end unit, so I don't have a lot of outside wall area. Luckily, we have a fireplace in the condo. So far this season, I have had the heat on about 60 for 3 days that it got in the 20's, and we were staying with my mom. Other then that the heat has been off. We burn the whole time we are here. Even in the morning before work for an hour and a half or so. My neighbors were complaining about $400 plus gas bills last winter, and mine was in the $100 range. Probably be an even bigger difference this year, as I didn't have the heat off last year. I burn 2 to 3 cords/year. My boss and I cut all our own wood, so all it cost me is the time, and sweat doing it. On top of it, I absolutely love having a fire burning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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