Burned 131 lbs yesterday

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Post by nepacoal » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 5:52 am

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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Post by Pa papa » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 7:20 am

Wow. That's some brutal weather to cope with but oh the joy of being warm. Got to love that coal. :-D

 
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Post by nepacoal » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 7:25 am

Pa papa wrote:
Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 7:20 am
Wow. That's some brutal weather to cope with but oh the joy of being warm. Got to love that coal. :-D
Not near as bad as our friends in upstate New York, but that type of weather is brutal on an uninsulated house. Coal definitely makes it bearable.


 
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Post by coalkirk » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 7:31 am

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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Post by nepacoal » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 8:02 am

coalkirk wrote:
Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 7:31 am
Thank goodness for coal. Oil burner is still idle.
Our oil boiler is turned off too. I did run it for 10 minutes in the fall just to make sure it still worked but the power has been turned off to it since then.

 
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Post by lzaharis » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 8:53 am

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.


 
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Post by nepacoal » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 9:13 am

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:

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Post by lzaharis » Tue. Jan. 22, 2019 9:38 am

If you have thick bath sheet you can fold it up and she will park there without getting too hot.

 
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Post by Rufcar » Wed. Jan. 23, 2019 4:09 pm

I too burned a lot I figured appox 300 lb that one day and over 1000 lbs that week. 600K btu and 3 bricks thick no insulation in walls as its cant be done. House was 68 and 69.

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