The Cold Weather Is Here!

 
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Post by warminmn » Wed. Jan. 26, 2022 6:10 pm

Thats for sure! And winter isnt over yet! Our Alaskan and Canadian members dont post often except Wren and he moved.


 
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Post by hank2 » Thu. Jan. 27, 2022 1:10 am

There are others as well, but I enjoyed the posts from "Short Bus" in Alaska, some years back. He had some sort of stoker set up running sub bit in some crazy temps.

 
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Post by anthony7812 » Thu. Jan. 27, 2022 6:07 am

Rob R. wrote:
Wed. Jan. 26, 2022 7:31 am
I was wondering how you were making out and missed this post. A VA400 is a potent little boiler, I bet it still has a lot left in it.

We are at -5 this morning but I see the sun peaking over the trees.
The green machine is humming along smoothly. I'm planning on a really good cleaning next week. Shut down, good blowout out the fines, brush and vac job of everything(including pipes) I see some 40's on deck potentially. I have noticed this cold weather is making for some long burn times, but nothing that would indicate she isn't keeping up. Also noticed the bin being eatin up quicker but again this cold and adding the dhw exchanger. I'm very impressed with the performance. I'm heating 2200~sqft brick ranch to about 72ish. I went crazy with the zones so master bed and bath is 70, kids are 71 (2 separate zones) and main living kitchen and 2nd bath is 72. I keep the basement zone set to about 67. Rarely runs do to boiler being almost central of the basement wall. Good Ole cat irons down there. Anywho good preventive maintenance and even the little guy won't struggle much when push comes to shove.

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Thu. Feb. 17, 2022 10:44 pm

1 Ton on January 15th for the handfed and this is what is left today. At almost 2.5 ton thru the Harman and 2 ton thru the EFM for this winter.
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January 15th

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Post by CoalHeat » Wed. Mar. 30, 2022 7:19 pm

Stove still burning, it ain't over yet.

 
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Post by waytomany?s » Thu. Mar. 31, 2022 8:42 pm

CoalHeat wrote:
Wed. Mar. 30, 2022 7:19 pm
Stove still burning, it ain't over yet.
Nope, another month. At least.

 
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Post by CoalHeat » Sat. Apr. 02, 2022 2:59 pm

It's week by week here now. I've already had days and nights when I've had windows open and the stove barely burning, few days later and I have it pumping out the heat.


 
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Post by CoalHeat » Tue. Apr. 05, 2022 8:25 pm

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It ain't over till it's over!

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Post by CoalHeat » Thu. Apr. 07, 2022 10:20 pm

Yep, we still need that warm radiant heat!

 
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Post by Rob R. » Thu. Feb. 02, 2023 4:31 pm

We are in for a rough few days. Roaring wind starting tonight and the deep freeze by tomorrow morning. Stay safe everyone.
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Post by waytomany?s » Thu. Feb. 02, 2023 6:53 pm

I like the weather underground site, especially the ten day setup. That windchill is scary.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Fri. Feb. 03, 2023 9:03 am

It is -10F here with a wind-chill of -30F. My house is warm, but the boiler is definitely running a lot.

I have already heard about some people with no heat this morning. I can't imagine how backed up the service guys are.

 
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Post by nut » Fri. Feb. 03, 2023 9:26 am

Wow, that's a lot colder than us. Tomorrow is our lowest morning temp. Somewhere around 0. Today's morning low was 11 here and windy. It always amazes me how much hotter the stove runs when it is cold out at the same setting. I have no baro. The wind sucked most of the fire out of the stove. I usually just reduce the primary air intake on windy days but this Blaschak I have been burning needs a lot of air to burn. I estimated the turn down wrong. Should have reduced it a full turn. Currently running at 3 1/2 turns open. Last night 3 turns out.

 
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Post by Rob R. » Fri. Feb. 03, 2023 10:09 am

Same thing happened to me, I guessed wrong on the Chubby JR air setting and it was out this morning. Probably just as well, the heat from the boiler and piping alone has the basement up to 72.


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