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[oldchenowth]

All I know is I had better get stocked up quik.  It is high 50's outside and the didgital thermostat says 75 inside and my wife is runnung around in sweats and a sweater tonight.  Are you kidding me?  what the heck is she going to be like when Jack Frost kicks the door in and screams "I'm heeeerrrrrrre"?

Apparently too much aint gonna be enough.

[MattyNH]

 Not sure why you heated a pool during the summer months...just saying...No idea where you live.. 

i have cb 6048 and heated my 24' round 15,000 gal pool  at a temps  around 85-90 all spring and summer and my dhw  and didnt use more then 2 cords

[yoderheating]

 I have had customers who heated the pool year around because the pool was shaded.
 

[willieG]

All I know is I had better get stocked up quik.  It is high 50's outside and the didgital thermostat says 75 inside and my wife is runnung around in sweats and a sweater tonight.  Are you kidding me?  what the heck is she going to be like when Jack Frost kicks the door in and screams "I'm heeeerrrrrrre"?

Apparently too much aint gonna be enough.

wait till you get one in "that stage of life" the thermostat can't go high enough one minute and next the front door is open, all i can say is..good thing it's only wood!

[Ridgekid]

WillieG-

You got one of those wifes too? Well here's one for ya. Sleeps with the window open but wants to know when I'm going to fire up the OWB?    Talk about mixed signals!

[Bull]

Glad to hear that I am not the only one with a wife like that. LOL

[tulenutn2o]

Same goes here!

[jackel440]

Oh yeah I hear ya!my wife is the same way.freezing one minute then claims we're in the desert the next.we're only in our 30's but bless her heart she did have to have a hysterectomy. So her hormones are all messed up.now me,  I do like it warm in the house.

[fireboss]

sorry, missed the post about why i would heat a pool in the summer, because i can lol! and now that we do we are spoiled, no  :thumbupo will go in un less its 80 or better and its sept 29  and we still swimming

[rhugg]

Here is a way of getting close to your usage for the winter once you have a couple weeks of usage or maybe a cord of usage.

Go to http://www.degreedays.net/ and run the daily degree days for your location and the period of time you have used a known amount of wood,  1cord.  Then you will know that a cord is good for X degree days (100 in this example.  Then rerun the report for monthly for the last 12 months and add up the degree days for the months you figure on running your OWB  (1000 in this example) then it is a simple ratio calculation to estimate how many cords you need for the heating season.  Total Cords = (1cord used/100 dgree days) x 1000 degree days = 10 cords for heating season.

They ask for the base temperature.  I used 65, that is the temperature at which your house doesn't need heat due to solar and internal heat.
 

[trz]

Haven't read all the posts so this may be redundent but..... It REALLY depends MORE on how well your house is sealed and insulated than what kind of OWB you have.     If you have a newer house thats well sealed and tons of insulation you will burn far less wood than and older farm house that isn't very tight and lacking insulation  regardless of what kind of owb you have.    Way too much emphasis on brand!  I've seen half assed homemade boilers that work just as good as the expensive factory made high tech boilers.