Floor Furnaces in Downeast Maine?

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by Zymer

Wicked good advice, Sub. I have a big Jotul F500, but when it hit -15 here, it hardly made a dent in it and I had to resort to sleeping on the floor in front of it. The next year, I added a big Glenwood Oak parlor stove and thought that would do me just fine...but that Winter the temp dropped to -25 and stayed there for 3 weeks, I froze my butt off and the pipes bursting in the wall sounded like gunshots, even with both stoves going.

Now I have 3 stoves (2 wood, 1 pellet). Fortunately, last Winter was relatively mild and I didn't fire up the Glenwood at all (thought about it a couple of times, but didn't). I still have about 2 cords of wood left.

I would prefer to have heating options setup and not used, instead of the opposite of not enough heating options.

IMHO ending the heating season with surplus fuel left-over is a good thing

We started with 5 cords and ended with 1 1/2 cord.

[AustinB]

As a rule, you will need to heat the water to more than 70-80*. Heat losses would make your heater run all the time, and it won't be able to keep up in the cold weather.