Hard to heat home

 

How large is your house, what is the size of the existing furnace if you have one, what type of wood are you using and is it rounds or is it split wood, and is the wood green or dried.

 

 

is those temps in F or C ?

 

 

If she was running both that pretty much tells you the wood isn't going to carry the whole house when it is cold. Although your 6° C outside isn't all that cold.

There are two sides to a cold house, the amount of heat your adding and the amount of heat the house is losing. Before you buy a new heating system call an energy auditor to help locate where all of that heat is going.

I used to burn a lot of wood and liked larger pieces split to provide lots of surface area. Round wood even dry will not burn as well as split. Apparently you have a lot of smaller pieces that sounds like branches and scraps, not good. 6" to 14" hardwood split and dried for close to a year will generate twice the hear, IMO.

Bud

 

 

What type/species of wood are you burning? There is a huge difference between species how many btu's they contain. Some woods contain almost double the heat energy than others. So, picking the right wood can make a huge difference.

 

Spruce is not high on the energy content list and may produce more residue inside the chimney. Never burned spruce but have done some pine. And have done hundreds of cords of hardwood, much better fire. Add to that the small size and your choice of wood is part of the problem. I do realize you have an abundance of it but that does not make it a good wood.

If you can get a hold of some hardwood you can still use the dry spruce to start the fire. Be sure to have the chimney cleaned and talk to the sweep to see if your wood is causing an accumulation. Chimney sweeps have a lot of experience.

Bud

Thanks Pilot, I was typing. We don't have a like button so here it is "LIKE"

 

 

would probably have a technician out to look at the system it may be a little more efficient using oil by design but suspect your system may have something wrong. the btu per cord is not a fair comparison your denser hardwoods will burn longer but in terms of increasing efficiency of your system switching to oak or another dense firewood is probably not going to increase the water temperature but you would burn less wood, but your also comparing hardwood that may weigh around 4000 lbs a dry cord weight to a softwood 2400 lbs dry cord weight.