We have and use a programmable thermostat in our house. It is a Hunter model 44550. It has the following features:
The device is handy but not perfect.
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Today, my brother came down and we unloaded a trailer load of wood about what I consider to be one-½ cord of it and I started up our fireplace again.
I have a computerized temperature taking system in my “office” and it shows what I believe to be indicative of what we can achieve with our wood fireplace.
Both images I generated from temperatures taken in the same location in our house and external weather conditions are pretty much the same.
My conclusions are that one can economically and effectively use their furnace as a base heating system and a wood fireplace for creating peak heat conditions.
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Okay, so now you have a fireplace and of course it is cold out and you want to warm the house.
Now you need to get wood. Now, there are some things you need to know about wood before you go out and buy it. There is only one kind of wood to burn and that is properly seasoned wood!
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In my previous post I discussed about saving money on heating bills using wood heat. Is wood heat more inexpensive than natural gas, electric, oil, or propane? One would tend to answer yes, but not so fast, hunches are fine but in order to definitively answer that question you need to run some numbers.
What you can not measure or calculate you have to rely on hunches and while hunches are a good first cut at answering a proposition they can often be wrong.
I keep coming back to the E85 situation, it is cheaper to fill your vehicle with E85, your money is staying local and going to local corn growers & ethanol plants so that may bias you into concluding E85 is more inexpensive, but when you calculate the cents it costs you to drive a mile on E85 vs. E0 or E10 my experience shows the hunch wrong — E85 is more expensive!
Onto calculating heating value.
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Ah, so kozy! Imagine Lorie and I sitting in the basement with the fire going, the wind whipping outside, the outside temperature hovering around 0° F, and it is snowing. Inside we are watching a movie, drinking hot chocolate (with schnapps in mine), and eating popcorn together. Well, that fireplace does more than set a mood.
That fireplace, a Kozy Heat fireplace also serves to help us save on our utility bills and keep the house at a comfortable temperature.
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Trying to change myself and you on thrift and savings! It is hard to save save save in a spend spend spend world, but it is better to save than spend!
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