How cold/warm is your house?

Our house is usually around 77 degrees - but let me explain. We live in an old farm house that is over 100 years old. Our pantry and back room only have a crawl space under them, so drafts come in from there. Luckily however, we own our own gas well, plus a drilling company had 5 others drilled on us which can give us free gas as well. So free natural gas is NOT in short supply on our place. We do have a forced air furnace, but mostly heat with house with ventless heaters because you never know when the power is going to go out.

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Michael W. Smith in North-West Pennsylvania

"Everything happens for a reason."

Well Its 60deg in central ohio today, were suppose to have a high of 25deg tomorrow. My wife keeps the temp around 68 during the day, We drop it back down to 55 at night. The upstairs is always colder than the down since there are no registers upstairs. We have a little oil electic heater to take the edge off the floor. I like the cooler temps when I sleep.

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Gary in Central Ohio

I love all of your answers. The mention of the Japanese heater under the table reminded me of the system used by the Congress in Philedelphia. The table had a heavy tablecloth that hung to the ground. Under the table were metal containers for hot coals to keep the feet and lower body warm.

Another "system" is moving in tonight. It may be chilly in here, but the roof doesn't leak, and it sure is warmer than the barn!

Speaking of heaters under the table. I did some time in Korea years ago and I remember how warm their floors were. They had a system where the "furnace" sat outside and they would put in this coffee can shaped hunk of charcoal with little holes perforated through it. Anyway the heat coming off this thing would draft up under or through the concrete floor through a couple of pipes. Man the floor would literally get hot in spots. But sure was nice heat.
When I built my place I put infloor heating in but have never used it as the wood burner is sufficient in my ICF berm home.

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We have now officially entered the twilight zone.

Hasn't been a real bad winter so far, but then I've not been outside much since my heart attack on Thanksgiving. We heat our 1200 sq ft home only with a very large old well-maintained Warm Morning stove. We have an electric furnace, but rarely turn it on. Get our wood staves cheap from a local bourbon barrel factory, and the larger wood is $35 a truckload from a neighbor. We usually only buy 2 loads of bigger wood cause the staves burn well enough until temp reaches single digits. Entire house stays around 80 even in zero weather, and I just about burn up, raising windows all the time for some air. Husband is a diabetic and freezes all the time. He even keeps an electric blanket on his side of the bed. The best thing we ever did was to install new windows in the house a couple years ago. No more unwanted drafts.

Mornin'. As with some of the other posts it just depends on which room I'm in.
In the livingroom (the addition) it's 53 degrees and my fingers feel it, lol.
The diningroom/kitchen area is a comfy 67. We were hoping to get the woodcooks stove hooked up before winter hit but it snuck up on us. Outside it's zero with a windchill of -19. It warmed up 11 degrees since 4 a.m.
Supposed to get down to -45 tonight and Saturday night then warm up into the lower single digits on Sunday. I was also hoping to get window quilts made :waa: ....Paula

I see there is a Fisher wood stove up in Madison, Wi. on ebay
link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...sPageName=WDVW
And no one has bid on it.

Mine is almost exactly like it but it's called a frontier-box. Same intake and all but no soap stone up in the top. I just put 3 layers of paving bricks on top of mine and painted them with stove paint.

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We have now officially entered the twilight zone.

Are the bricks to hold the heat? Dissipate it? Or ???