[Greenbuilding] one more pleasure (or not) of heating with wood

[Reuben Deumling]

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Kathy Cochran <
kathys_old_house at goldrush.com> wrote:

>  So I wrote the building department a very nice & respectful letter asking
> them for permission to use wood heat as my “sole source of heat” because
> when my house was built in 1939 the laws and rules about these sorts of
> things were not in place.  They actually said “Yes”
>
Nice work.

>
>
> HOWEVER, even with ceiling fans, unless I wanted to go around dressed as an
> Eskimo in cold weather, it really didn’t do a great job of keeping much of
> the house warm, (because of the way the house is laid out)
>

the folks over at http://www.degreedays.net/ suggest ~3,500 HDD/yr for
Angels Camp (see below). Perhaps you could say more about the layout of your
house, the level of insulation in your walls, the temperatures you can
achieve with just the woodstove, in, say, December?


 Month starting HDD  12/1/2009 650  1/1/2010 580  2/1/2010 456  3/1/2010 436
4/1/2010 424  5/1/2010 276  6/1/2010 63  7/1/2010 11  8/1/2010 18  9/1/2010
33  10/1/2010 138  11/1/2010 406    3491
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