Bag a Day

Not that it’s relevant to anyone or even myself considering we’re moving, but with all the open space in our downstairs due to the construction it’s a lot harder for the pellet stove to heat our house.

Typically with the weather like it is, I could easily get nearly 2 days on a bag of pellets. Only when it was really cold would it take 1 bag (or 2 in extreme cases) a day. I managed this by basically closing all the doors downstairs and forcing the hot air upstairs. It also helped to use the furnace fan to suck the hot air in and distribute upstairs.

With all the construction, the doors don’t close and the furnace no longer has an intake for the pellet stove air. The downstairs is essentially an open space, thus doubling our space. That’s too much for the stove, or more accurately more space than we previously heated on average.

– b