Avg Coal Usage
Hi, New To This. Just Purchased a Home in Shamokin, Pa with a coal Stove, I was wondering If anybody can Give Me About a average usage of Bags a week, Rice Coal #40, 90,000 BTU Coal stove, Home Approx 1000 Sq Ft and avg out side Temp of 32, and Inside of 70, Mine is Hot air, Just a ball Park would Be Fine, Just would Like and Idea of what i would be using ! Thanks in advance For Any Help !
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My uneducated guess would be less than 2.5 tons per heating season. Probably closer to 2.... unless you like a hot house or it's drafty/ uninsulated...
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80 pounds a day at 100 percent feed rate.
including the basement i am heating approx 2800 sq ft.....insulation is so so, lots of drafts, 28 yr old windows are bad and are taped shut, no insulation in crawl space. I have reading allegheny stoker stove in the basement. i started adding insulation to the attic, about 1/3 done. thermostat is set downstairs at 73 degrees. it's 65-70 upstairs in my room.
including the basement i am heating approx 2800 sq ft.....insulation is so so, lots of drafts, 28 yr old windows are bad and are taped shut, no insulation in crawl space. I have reading allegheny stoker stove in the basement. i started adding insulation to the attic, about 1/3 done. thermostat is set downstairs at 73 degrees. it's 65-70 upstairs in my room.
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i'm sure a boiler would cut that way back, but i would have to spend at least 4 grand between a used boiler and the plumbing and radiators. paid 350 dollars for my coal stove.....have three other stoker stoves in storage.
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Hmmm! I have already went thru 2.5 tons in my DS1500 and had to order another pallet. My house is only 1500 sq feet. It's using a lot more than I expected considering the house is only at 68 degrees . Just recently it has gotten cold. When it gets below 20 degrees outside I turn the propane furnace on to supplement. As much as I like the coal route , I am beginning to think it was a mistake.
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Welcome Vinnie, im in Coal Township so possibly just a few blocks away. I dont use Bagged coal ,too expensive. I get 3 to 4 ton of rice delivered For $200 aTon, all at once in the fall and usually use about 3 ton for the whole season. Or a little more if its colder than usual like this year. I used around 2 ton so far this season.So im thinking about 6 bags a week avg. 10 -11 when its very cold. Im keeping a 3000SF of 100 yr old house to 76 degrees all winter and i bump it up to 78 on the very coldest days ,like now. House is partially insulated with blown in cellulose in most of the walls.
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1100 sg ft house upstairs, stove in half finished basement and door to garage opened everynite and almost all day on weekends 40 lbs per day.
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no reason to buy bagged coal in shamokin unless you have no coal bin.
lots of good coal nearby. it's probably 170 a ton picked up.
lots of good coal nearby. it's probably 170 a ton picked up.
k-2 wrote: ↑Tue. Jan. 29, 2019 7:37 pmWelcome Vinnie, im in Coal Township so possibly just a few blocks away. I dont use Bagged coal ,too expensive. I get 3 to 4 ton of rice delivered For $200 aTon, all at once in the fall and usually use about 3 ton for the whole season. Or a little more if its colder than usual like this year. I used around 2 ton so far this season.So im thinking about 6 bags a week avg. 10 -11 when its very cold. Im keeping a 3000SF of 100 yr old house to 76 degrees all winter and i bump it up to 78 on the very coldest days ,like now. House is partially insulated with blown in cellulose in most of the walls.
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I’m sorry to hear that. I don’t know anything about a DS1500, but I wonder if it’s a stove issue rather than a coal issue? I’m able to keep 4500+sqft in the upper 70’s with two hand fed stoves each eating 40lbs a day. I don’t use the electric heat at all.Odyknuck wrote: ↑Tue. Jan. 29, 2019 4:38 pmHmmm! I have already went thru 2.5 tons in my DS1500 and had to order another pallet. My house is only 1500 sq feet. It's using a lot more than I expected considering the house is only at 68 degrees . Just recently it has gotten cold. When it gets below 20 degrees outside I turn the propane furnace on to supplement. As much as I like the coal route , I am beginning to think it was a mistake.
I hope things work out for you.
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I know a lot of it has to do with the stove being located in the Basement however I would think the DS1500 would do a better job considering it is sized for a larger home.
How much wood did you go through in a normal year? I am curious how much coal you expected to burn. I usually use between 4 - 5 tons per year a little larger house but probably in a slightly warmer area.
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It is hard to say how much wood we burned as it came off our property and neve really measured it. I would say 4 - 6 chords of wood on the average. I really did not know how much coal I was going to burn however I was led to believe a bag a day for the square footage. Of course that's what I get for believing a Salesman lol
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The basement is a giant heat sink...
It will eat a lot of btu's...
The 'rents house was heated with a Hitzer 503 in the 1st floor fireplace...
2300 sq feet, 1978 level insulation Anderson 400's for windows on The Cape...
Just shy of 4 tons kept it 72*...
Without the oil boiler running...
The basement got cold...
About half of the basement was insulated the balance bare poured concrete...
I installed a Harman MKII to take the chill off wanted to get it to 66-68*...
I ran it for 2 weeks burning 50lbs of coal per day...
Managed to keep it at 65*...
It will eat a lot of btu's...
The 'rents house was heated with a Hitzer 503 in the 1st floor fireplace...
2300 sq feet, 1978 level insulation Anderson 400's for windows on The Cape...
Just shy of 4 tons kept it 72*...
Without the oil boiler running...
The basement got cold...
About half of the basement was insulated the balance bare poured concrete...
I installed a Harman MKII to take the chill off wanted to get it to 66-68*...
I ran it for 2 weeks burning 50lbs of coal per day...
Managed to keep it at 65*...