Burned 131 lbs yesterday
- nepacoal
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131.17 lbs actually. It was -4 with up to 40 mph gusts yesterday morning. 63.6 HDD. This is for a 1940's cape cod with uninsulated brick walls. The attic is insulated but the basement walls are not. Nothing scientific to back it up, but I'm guessing I burned 25% more due to the wind.
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I cannot calculate how much coal I burned yesterday but I normally empty my ash pan every 2-3 days. The ash pan was full to the brim on one days operation so easily burned double what I would normally. Yes the wind just sucks the heat out of an older home like our 1950 cape cod. Thank goodness for coal. Oil burner is still idle.
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IF I was still burning kerosene I would be burning 36 gallons a day and the tank would have been run dry in less than a week.
I can sympathize with you as the house was 48 degrees Fahrenheit when I woke up on Monday morning.
The Buck/rice mix has been burning really well and the fire is running flat out and reaching the steam chest and I am drawing .02 HG.
I turned the stokers stroke in by two threads on Sunday afternoon and its been playing catch up since then. As long as the winds stay calm it will stay warmer. I have been able to maintain 15-160 degree water with all my heat loss so that helps.
The shelterbelt on the north side helped some but its taken 24 hours to bring it back up to a much warmer temperature and I have generated 8 gallons of ashes as of this morning. since I bagged ashes yesterday morning.
I wish I had 5 column radiators as I would have much more thermal mass and at least 200 more gallons of water.
I can sympathize with you as the house was 48 degrees Fahrenheit when I woke up on Monday morning.
The Buck/rice mix has been burning really well and the fire is running flat out and reaching the steam chest and I am drawing .02 HG.
I turned the stokers stroke in by two threads on Sunday afternoon and its been playing catch up since then. As long as the winds stay calm it will stay warmer. I have been able to maintain 15-160 degree water with all my heat loss so that helps.
The shelterbelt on the north side helped some but its taken 24 hours to bring it back up to a much warmer temperature and I have generated 8 gallons of ashes as of this morning. since I bagged ashes yesterday morning.
I wish I had 5 column radiators as I would have much more thermal mass and at least 200 more gallons of water.
- nepacoal
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The house stayed between 71 and 72 the whole day. The only complaint came from the little calico cat. She usually spends most of her time on the radiators but they were way too hot even for her yesterday...
This is her normal hangout:
This is her normal hangout:
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If you have thick bath sheet you can fold it up and she will park there without getting too hot.