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I have a 520 stoker. I've used probably 4 tons so far. My daytime t-stat is set at 67. Night time is 64. I fired up the boiler on Oct. 15. I have an old victorian built in 1884 with no insulation. Please let me know how you guys are doing?

5 tons started burning in dec AA260 100 year old painted lady victorian 5000 plus square feet very little insulation 7 zones all set at 70

I'm almost done with last years 4.3 tons. Maybe nother week left.

You guys are gonna hate me....I burn about 20 pounds a day in my LL Hearth heating my 1700 sq ft ranch. 70-72 whenever the wife is home, setback to 67 from 10PM to 4AM.

Av8r,
That's about right. I burn 40 lbs and heat about twice the area.

running a 520 highboy,heating 1300sq. ft plus basement,started nov.1,used baout 2.5 tons so far.keep it a toasty 73.

About 4 tons.. Heating a little under 4000 sq feet. Old Victorian built in 1895

7.75 tons since oct. 2nd 2009, heating 3,000 sq ft in a poorly insulated house with old windows

leowis1 wrote:I have a 520 stoker. I've used probably 4 tons so far. My daytime t-stat is set at 67. Night time is 64. I fired up the boiler on Oct. 15. I have an old victorian built in 1884 with no insulation. Please let me know how you guys are doing?

1880 triple bricktorian. Heating basement with wood only but heating 2nd floor with wood and coal used 3/4 ton so far.
This probably does not count since I burn both wood and coal.
Burn wood all day then coal overnight. In morning dump wood onto hot coal coals. At night dump coal on top of wood coals.

About 2 tons. Heating 2200 sq. ft. well insulated split level with most windows argon filled double pane glass. I re-plumbed my two boilers into a true primary secondary piping system last summer. This eliminated my thermal siphoning heat loss problem. It's made a significant reduction in my coal consumption.

67 bags =2680lbs Heating 1500 Sq ft old house fairly well insulated.

Bk

2 1/2 ton 2400 sq foot metal shop w/ 20'roof radient in floor home made boiler w/ twin stokers ran both for about 2weeks just 1 now it's in the 20s&teens

Heating about 2500 sq. ft. since Sept. 20th. Used about 120 50# bags or 3 ton. Hope to reduce that next year by installing recirc loop and maybe a 40 gal. storage tank in the recirc loop. Using about 65#'s a day in Jan. and it has been cold.

Kevin

6 tons so far between the efm af150 and the alaska stoker.....about 4,000 sf

About 2 ton. Heating 3000 sq ft,. Well insulated house with a AA 130 68 day time, 63 night time