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[Scratch]

Because I want to see this forum grow in members and input, I'm thinking of topics to talk about. 
So I thought about some standard questions that might pop up between two OWB owners sittin' down for coffee.

1. What brand OWB do you have?

2. How long are your burn times?

3. How full do you fill it?

4. What type of wood you burn? (pallets, scrap millwork, oak...)

5. How many sq ft of floor lines do you heat?

6. How many sq ft of home space does your furnace heat (that the OWB feeds)

7. What else do you heat? (pool, hot tub, water heaters, coffee maker...)

8. Type of home? (older construction, poor insulation, lots of drafts... )

[Scratch]

Here's mine:

1. What brand OWB do you have?
Central Boiler 6048

2. How long are your burn times?
15-18 hours

3. How full do you fill it?
Pretty much full as I can get it.

4. What type of wood you burn? (pallets, scrap millwork, oak...)
Mostly oak, alot of 12" and up rounds.

5. How many sq ft of floor lines do you heat?
1900 SF in the basement, 576 in the garage.

6. How many sq ft of home space does your furnace heat (that the OWB feeds)
About 4800 SF total for the home and added on hair salon, 2 furnaces. (the basement 1900 is included in that number)

7. What else do you heat? (pool, hot tub, water heaters, coffee maker...)
Soon to be 1 standard water heater.

8. Type of home? (older construction, poor insulation, lots of drafts... )
10 year old Dome home, good insulation but a few drafts by certain windows.

[Dirtslinger]

Wood Master 4400

forced air with heat exchanger

12-18 hour burn

Half full

Mostly oak,maple all round no splits

No floor lines yet

3000 sq feet for now building 28x32 garage in spring with in floor heat
Hot water heater will be hooked up soon
Newer home 8 years old great isulation

[willieG]

1. What brand OWB do you have?
    Home made

2. How long are your burn times?
     12 hours or more

3. How full do you fill it?
     depends on the weather report, from stuffed full to  just turning the ashes and a couple of blocks

4. What type of wood you burn? (pallets, scrap millwork, oak...)
     100% dead elm cut and cured at least one year and stored inside...(very very very little smoke)

      (allthough i still have a stack in my shed of mixed hardwood that is 8 feet wide, 6 feet high and 40 feet long....just in case)

5. How many sq ft of floor lines do you heat?
    only  an added on basement of 20 x 24

6. How many sq ft of home space does your furnace heat (that the OWB feeds)
     1800 sq. ft. home (decently insulated as it is over 100 eyars old but iadd insulation every chance i get
      and a 30 x 40 shed that i keep about 45 unless im out there working then i crank it

7. What else do you heat? (pool, hot tub, water heaters, coffee maker...)
    Domestic water of course

8. Type of home? (older construction, poor insulation, lots of drafts... )
     house is over 100 years old storey and 1/2 brick decently insulated but room for improvement
 

[Jason]

Here's my list:

1.  I have a Hardy H5.  I first fired it up for New Year's Eve 2007.

2.  I get roughly 12 hour burn times with good wood on cold days.  Probably a bit more, really.

3.  I always fill it to the top.

4.  I use whatever wood I can get.  This year I lucked into a couple cords' worth of dry seasoned ash, oak, and cherry   that   was mine for the taking.  Just needed cut to length and split.  I also got hold of a bunch of green pine that I started burning the day the trees came down.  Plus there's also whatever I find right here on the farm, mostly dead elm.

5. I don't have any floor lines.

6. The house is somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200 square feet.

7. That's all we heat right now, but we got a big enough furnace that we can heat a garage or something should the need ever arise.

8. We live in an old brick farmhouse.  Most of it is just brick-no insulation at all.  We've replaced most of the windows in the last couple years and when we redid our bedroom last year we put up studs and 1" blue board.  It really makes a heck of a difference in that room.

 

[RUGERGUNZ]

1.  I have a Central Boiler 6048.

2.  24hrs+  I add a couple sticks twice a day, but have let it go as long as 36 before I got nervous the fire would go out.

3.  I stuff it, just as much as I can get in there.

4.  Burning broken pallets when I can get them.  Most of my wood is between 5-10years old, softwood, been sitting on the ground and is very wet.

5.  No floor lines.

6.  2100 sq ft.

7.  {Edited to add that I also heat all my DHW}

8.  4 year old double wide trailer.  Very well insulated.  Custom skirting, pressure treated stud wall covered with pressure treated 1/2" plywood, then tyvek and matching vinyl.

[PhinPhan]

1. What brand OWB do you have?
    - WoodMaster 4400

2. How long are your burn times?
    - 12 to 18 Hours

3. How full do you fill it?
    - I only put 3-4 pieces of wood in mine which only makes it about 1/4 full.

4. What type of wood you burn? (pallets, scrap millwork, oak...)
    - I am mainly using: oak, black cherry, walnut, locust, and sycamore.

5. How many sq ft of floor lines do you heat?
    - None

6. How many sq ft of home space does your furnace heat (that the OWB feeds)
    - About 1700 or so.

7. What else do you heat? (pool, hot tub, water heaters, coffee maker...)
    - Domestic Hotwater

8. Type of home? (older construction, poor insulation, lots of drafts... )
    - Older home about 25-30 years old, very poor insulation and several drafty spots.

[jon d]

1. What brand OWB do you have?
-Central Boiler 5036

2. How long are you burn times?
-12-14 Hours

3. How full do you fill it?
-1/2 to 3/4

4. What type of wood do you burn?
-oak, locust-whatever's dry

5. How many sq ft of floor lines do you heat?
-none

6. How many sq ft of home space does your furnace heat?
-2000 home 900sq ft shop

7. What else do you heat?
-Domestic Hotwater

8. Type of home?
-10 yr old home 5 yr old shop, both pretty well insulated
 

[pdboilermaker]

1. What brand OWB do you have?  Woodmaster 4400

2. How long are your burn times?  So dependant on weather and wood but on average 8-12 hours when filled

3. How full do you fill it?  Full in the morning before work, full in the evening before bed.  In between home from work and bed time fillings depend on how naggy the wife is

4. What type of wood you burn? (pallets, scrap millwork, oak...) - Mostly maple, pine and telephone poles

5. How many sq ft of floor lines do you heat? air/air exchanger in upstairs and downstairs furnace

6. How many sq ft of home space does your furnace heat (that the OWB feeds) 4200

7. What else do you heat? (pool, hot tub, water heaters, coffee maker...) domestic hot water

8. Type of home? (older construction, poor insulation, lots of drafts... )  100 years old r-19 in walls, r-19 in crawl space, r-38 in attic.  BUT NO WIND BREAKS UNTIL MY TREES GROW

[aquathermuser]

What brand OWB do you have?
     Aqua Therm 345st
How long are your burn times?
     10 to 15 hours in this latest cold western ny weather
How full do you fill it?
     Full. I have a 54" firebox and the majority of the wood i burn is 24" long and 48" long
What type of wood do you burn?
     Mostly all seasoned -ash, sugar maple, cherry, ironwood. Occasionally I add in some poplar.
How many sq. ft. of floor lines do you heat?
     4700sq. ft. See next questions.
How many sq. ft. of home space does your furnace heat?
     2600sq. ft.
What else do you heat (pool, hot tub ect)
     Domestic hot water, 30 x 50 shop radiant floor heat, house attached garage, full basement
Type of home?
     New build, 3 years ago.

Some clarifications-The aqua therm is a dual pump system.  One pump runs the pole barn shop. This is fully insullated with 3 garage doors also insulated and 10'ft ceilings.  Radiant in the floor and heats the hot water.  The shop is set at 50degrees and when we are out there raise it to 55 to 60 depending.

The attached garage we keep at 55degrees, the basement has radiant heat in the floor but we dont use it much at all. The house my wife likes it warm so it kept at 71 to 72 ish.