60-65 below zero windchill

[LBrandt]

I started with holding the house at between 63 and 65 right from the beginning this fall and told everyone to put on clothes instead of walking around in shorts and t shirts. The corn burner kept up just fine until this ridiculously cold spell we are in now. If the women were wearing sweats and were still cold, then we would bump up the furnace for a bit, but NOT continuously. I figure by the end of winter, our household will have saved well over a grand compared to using just propane. I'm amazed at this little things ability to generate heat and it just sits there. This summer I'm going to open up more direct heating so hopefully next winter we will use almost no propane for heating.

Going to put in floor grates like I remember in our old house on the farm? The one we had was not in the bedroom.

 

[guywhofishes]

do they make some sort of a damper device that slams shut if there's a fire?

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boy would a fire get moving pronto without them

 

[pointer]

Is that the grate you had to kneel on when you did wrong? Had an aunt and uncle we went to visit several times a year, furnace in the basement one grate in the living room and one right above it in the girls room, the boys room upstairs remember seeing frost on the wall one big bed with feather tick mattress and comforter, not the best but it worked

 

[KDM]

Going to put in floor grates like I remember in our old house on the farm? The one we had was not in the bedroom.

In a manner of speaking, but I'm going to put in vents to the cold air return duct work that you can shut in summer. Hopefully that will be good enough and I won't have to put in the direct grates that you can look right into the basement. At least that's the plan for now. I could and probably will change.

Guy, There is an auto shutoff that shuts the whole unit down if the unit gets to hot or the excess/high/way to big flame detector is tripped that is supposed to prevent a fire. That and the flame is entirely contained within a burn cup that when it gets full of ash/corn, more corn will just fall off and the flame will go out anyway. I've had the darn thing overflow with corn a couple times when the flame went out and just the excess corn made the whole unit shut off. Live and Learn.

 

[shorthairsrus]

Not sure why everyone talks like this has never happened before. These pictures were from 1-16-16 driving from Bismarck to Minot near Max it was not minus 30 but not far from it

there were big temperature swings that day because just a few miles down the road it was only -13

Had a Chevy do same thing. They rip entire unit out Expensive as all get out to replace. Good luck

 

[Lungdeflator]

Were you seriously taking pics of your dashboard while doing 102mph? What the hell is wrong with you?

Going faster, trying to get that windchill factor down. Remember, whoever has the coldest dash temp pic wins.

 

[Allen]

If you all enjoyed the past few days, you're in luck. The heat wave coming today through early Sunday is temporary. Next week looks an awful lot like this week.

The exception being...coworker claims it's going to last longer. I reminded him that I am a bit of a traditionalist and am seriously thinking of bringing back the shooting of the bearer of bad news.

Oh shit, ignore that last part.

 

[shorthairsrus]