Poll: What Percentage of Your Homes Heating Is From Coal?

MATTHEW D. wrote:100% heat and hot water for 45 years

Amazing!

The Vigilant II 2310 puts out ~90% of the heat for our 3,100 sq ft we heat. It's not up to the other ~6% when the temperatures fall to 25 and lower. Then the oil furnace carries the extra load to kep the house evenly comfy. That other 4%? That's the shoulder months when the house is too hot during the day to keep the coal fire going 24-7. For the few hours we need heat in those periods, flicking the furnace on for a few minutes gets the heat out quicker than the hand fed can. Now, when I finally get the Koker installed the equation will change

Since firing up the boiler in Sept 2012 it's 100%. Going to burn coal 24-7. Will fire up oil boiler every so often to make sure it's good never know when you might need to repair coal boiler.

Mine is *almost* 100%..... When I'm getting a shower, I run the electric NuTone heater that's built into the bathroom ceiling. I like it to be 80°+ when I step out of the shower lol.

My heating THE HOUSE is 100% 2200 sq--With my handfired I do not heat my water--my elec bill monthly, w/ HWH--averages out to approx. $39.00 per. I can live with that

LDPosse wrote:Mine is *almost* 100%..... When I'm getting a shower, I run the electric NuTone heater that's built into the bathroom ceiling. I like it to be 80°+ when I step out of the shower lol.

I'd chalk that up as 100% coal heating.

I'd say 100% but technically that's not true ....

When I reload the stove, that's usually when the oil burner kicks on intermittently over the course of a few hours, until the fire is hot enough to send enough heat into the boiler via the coils. Also if there's a call for heat and a simultaneous call for DHW, the boiler temp drops fast enough to kick the burner on as well.

Ran out of oil on Friday, so now it's a true 100%. I'm realizing now that I should've just shut the burner off as soon as the stove was lit, & left power to the aquastat & circs. We've still got plenty of hot water, and the TV room zone maintains temp, except for a while after a reload - all just at what LOOKS like too low of a boiler temp. The circs just run longer.

Looks like I've been wasting oil just to maintain a higher boiler temp. Live and learn.

to bad they didnt have a 95% catagory thats where I fall...live deep in the woods have 30 plus acres to scrounge wood, down dead wood,so during the fall and spring i'll make use of the free stuff when I only need a morning/evening burn...mostly burn locust thats just about like coal heat wise....

Its 100 percent for heat for about the last 37 years but I have an electric hot water heater and dryer. The house is all electric and my electric bill was $98.00 last month. The only reason I keep the electric hot water heater is they are cheap and easy to change out and I don't have any natural gas lines on my street. I've been here since 1972.

I'm probalby only 90% with hot water.
I seem to leave town for about three weeks each winter and my propane wall furnaces keep me from freezing up.
For that 10% of my heat it is about 30% of my heating expense.
I need a coal burning buddy in town to tend my boiler.

100% coal, DHW is electric and costs so little why do more. Performance horse washing which is a lot of water and only done in the summer is solar (April -Oct) and works so well I'm thinking of extending it to DHW this year.

Oil free since February 2007.

I am sort of newcomer, third season w/ coal...second season w/ a boiler. Love the heat and even more love the endless hot water.

My winter time cold water supply if very low temp. it takes a lot of energy to raise to usable temp. the Axeman does it w/ ease.

I voted 90% since I use a wood pellet insert and a little electric space heater in the transition months on each side of winter. In October and then again in May, mainly on the cool nights I also will admit that during that last cold spell when it didn't get above 15 degrees around here for about 6 days, I did run the wood pellet stove to help. Only because I didn't want to push the Clayton so hard. I Also didn't seal up the windows as good as I usually do this year. I use the shrink plastic window kits with the double sided tape. I think they make a HUGE difference...

I'm also heating my DHW via a thermo siphon set up and keeping my hot tub warm, both with the coal furnace

lsayre wrote:Lets keep this poll to those who burn coal for residential home heating only please . What percentage of your homes annual heating is typically accomplished via burning coal?

I'm at 100% for the past 2 seasons.

Going on 4 seasons almost always coal heated .... I think I activated my boiler once a year, just to make sure it still works !