Sub Zero Temps for a few days

[svk]

Hung the moving blanket over the window.

Oh and these are double paned windows. Make, brand, thermo or other, IDK.

Just curious, do you find the heat loss is coming from the glass itself or are the seals between the moving parts of the windows leaking a lot of air? My smaller cabin has cheaper double pane windows and there is noticeable loss through the seals but the glass itself is warm.

 

[user 122190]

A good Fire going. Plenty of heat. Life is good!

 

[user 122190]

I have over the years found drafts along some of the door jams, and between a few of the logs. I've been successful in inserting insulation batting into those area, and that has helped a lot. There are no leaks around the windows, but the temperature as measured by my hand on the window is where all the heat is being lost (i.e. where the cold is coming in). Large Windows, small cabin, hence the window insulation, aka moving blankets.

Just curious, do you find the heat loss is coming from the glass itself or are the seals between the moving parts of the windows leaking a lot of air? My smaller cabin has cheaper double pane windows and there is noticeable loss through the seals but the glass itself is warm.

 

[sirbuildalot]

2700 feet. We have varieties of Pine, Fir and Tamarack for firewood. Damned if I can figure it out, but sometimes a fire last a long long time. But usually it is 2 to 3 hours, and it is a constant effort to keep it filled and a good bed of coals going. Other neighbors have similar experiences, and a larger capacity stove is not really an option as this one cranks out good heat, such that it gets to hot.

The suggestion that I find a different source of wood it ridiculous. We have what we have, and to have firewood brought in from a far, it would make more sense to go all propane. I've neighbors that do that, and in previous years it was quite expensive over the span of the winter.

In one post you say the stove barely gets warm to the touch, then in another you say getting a bigger one won't work because this one throws good heat and it gets to hot??? The post you deleted yesterday said the windows were double paned and the stove was a newer cat model. Yet it only lasts 2 or 3 hours. Sorry dude, but your posts contradict one another so I guess I'll stop making "stupid" suggestions to try and help. You obviously have it all figured out.

Causes of a barely warm stove:

*Chimney pipe and flue that has excessive buildup
*Too many coals built up
Too much dampering
*Unseasoned wood
*Not enough air getting to stove

Perhaps if you stop acting like a know it all and listen and you'd actually learn something

 

[Jakers]

Not sure I understand.
You are right about not considering elevation; and about burn times of soft wood being shorter; but not sure about heat and building coals.
And I don't understand why water swirls in reverse when south of the equator.
Still lots to learn...

If soft woods are fired fast and hard they just turn to ash rather quickly is what i meant. the coals will last for a certain amount of oxygen, faster burn equals more oxygen passing over the coals and equates to a shorter window of time to keep good coals in the stove for holding heat and igniting new splits. think of it as a rapid hot cold fire in a thick walled stove. if the "hot" cycle isnt there long enough to heat the stove up, it never really warms up well. with the hard woods you get a longer slower burn rate just by the nature of the wood itself so naturally the coals will last longer due primarily to the stove heating up and occupant tuning down the air intake to not roast out of the house. less oxygen equals longer coal life.

 

[cantoo]

I might as well jump into the fire too.
What's wrong with another source of wood? Maybe a wood pellet stove for supplement heat? Wouldn't need it all the time but it would likely be handy for the times that you are away from the cabin for more than the 3 hours that the stove lasts? I would assume that it takes a long time to bring the cabin back up to temperature when you are away from the stove for over 3 hours? A load of pellets would last a long time if only used once in awhile. Initial cost of pellet stoves are crazy though.
What about moving, have you considered that? There is a house for sale right beside Sirbuildalot.

 

[user 122190]

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What about moving, have you considered that? There is a house for sale right beside Sirbuildalot.

LOL. I once had a home with a pellet stove. I wasn't impressed. But as a backup, it would be a nice solution, but not practical in my limited space.

 

[user 122190]

Now it is working too good. 12 degrees outside, 80+ inside. Windows and doors are cracked open to get this cabin down to 70. Fire burned all night, with damper down low, I still had to feed it every 2 hours.

 

[yooper]

I burn a bit of pine, spruce, and aspen that ends up coming home with me from close to home tree jobs. Three hrs burn time is a generous burn time in my crappy wood stove. I just burn that during the day, it does burn hot but leaves no coals. Temps out side are not as cold here but living on lake superior gives me a nice breeze most winter days. I dont cover my windows any more as they have been replaced but if I don't bank snow around my house there is a big difference in how comfy the house feels.
I do go to just hardwood after I burn all the soft wood and aspen.

 

[Jakers]

at least you guys get snow to bank with. we have about 2" on the ground total so far and we are well below 0*F at nights now

 

[Hddnis]

Insulating windows warms a house up nicely.

I have a modern home with low-E double pane windows. I still put up the plastic over the bigger windows in the winter. I use that stuff you shrink with a hair dryer. The extra few inches of dead airspace makes the house much warmer.

You can buy quilted curtains for larger windows that help with heating and cooling a lot. Windows are huge sources of heat loss, even the new multi-pane ones.

 

[user 122190]

Normal temps once again, and water is running thru all the taps. Blankets are off the windows, and the fire has been going for 3 days straight. I'll load it up for tonight and let it go out so I can clean it good in the morning. Big snow is coming, but the deep cold is over for now.

 

[Wood Doctor]

Normal temps once again, and water is running thru all the taps. Blankets are off the windows, and the fire has been going for 3 days straight. I'll load it up for tonight and let it go out so I can clean it good in the morning. Big snow is coming, but the deep cold is over for now.

Forget that nonsense. Sunday and Monday night we could break the all-time record lows for New Years eve. It might hit 35 below zero F wind chill and 27 below F ambient. It's all part of Al Gore's global warming trend.

 

[user 122190]

We got a lot of snow. The wet kind (heavy), and the power lines have been baring to much weight. Lost power for 11 hours. Never had so much fun hooking up the genny and the 40 foot cable to the Transfer Switch in thigh high wet snow. And at 7am with barely any light, whoa!!!

Forget that nonsense. Sunday and Monday night we could break the all-time record lows for New Years eve. It might hit 35 below zero F wind chill and 27 below F ambient. It's all part of Al Gore's global warming trend.