how much coal did you burn this past week

Well last sunday i got my koker running finally. Im all new to coal and how much i might burn. I know this can differ very much from setup ...house and so on. Does this sound about right to you guys....
This last week while its been super cold here i burned 550-600 pounds of coal in 7 days. The temps have been low single digits over night and high of 15 during the days all week. My living area is 2200sf, koker is in my unfinished basement and duct into my existing duct work. The temp in the house was set to 71 all week.

Is this in line to what i should expect to burn with temps like this....am i high low or right where i need to be?

If your ashes look good and the wife is quiet, your right
in the ball park. With this weather, 60-80 lbs a day is not uncommon.

how big a house, how well insulated, good/bad windows, windy location, stove location, etc, etc, etc..... will all have an input on the amount of coal...

having said that....

I am in the same neighborhood as far as climate (well within two hours anyway) and burned about the same amount as you heating about 3000 sqft, stoker in the unfinished basement of a ranch house, well insulated, good windows & doors, not very windy here in the woods

so I'd say you are not too far off...the fun is tweaking the new toyl over the next couple weeks getting it dialed in and learning the personality of your stove / chimney setup!

I'm on course for burning about 475 pounds this week.. 2400 square feet..
My norm is about 300 pounds a week..

Hand fed furnace using nut size anthracite

tsb wrote:If your ashes look good and the wife is quiet, your right
in the ball park. With this weather, 60-80 lbs a day is not uncommon.

It took me 140 lbs yesterday to achieve those two goals.

506 lbs. burned here over the past full week. A full 40 lbs. more than I had calculated. That's about as far off as I've ever been on a weeks worth of calculated vs. actual usage. The high winds just might have had something to do with this after all.

326 HDD's (heating degree days) here for the week. The weeks mean average temp here was 18.4 degrees.

506/326 = 1.55 lbs. of coal per HDD for the week.

lsayre wrote:506 lbs. burned here over the past full week. A full 40 lbs. more than I had calculated. That's about as far off as I've ever been on a weeks worth of calculated vs. actual usage. The high winds just might have had something to do with this after all.

My thought is that efficiency will decline slightly as you push the appliance to produce more heat since a higher percentage of the total BTU's generated will inevitably make it up and out the chimney... I've noticed this as well just by comparing pounds of coal verses heating degrees

Well i feel much better knowing im in the ball park. Being high on top a hill with lots of wind does not help lol. I have been getting use to how it reacts, wife thinks im nuts cause i wont sit still for more then 30 min then im up checking what its doing and temps lol. The best part is with these cold temps the koker does not even get close to its max feed rate to maintain house temp at 71. Dont think i`ll ever have to worry about it not being able to keep up

I burned an additional 110 lbs more than the previous warm week with a total of 560 lbs, 70 degrees inside with DHW

Hi boys,I know I'm a hand jobber but I burned 435# in the last 7 days all the while maintaining a cool 78*to 80* inside which keeps momma happy .Keepaeyeonit

Normally a bag a day 40lbs. x 7= 280lbs. I would say I'm up to 50-60lbs. per day for the week, I'll go with 400 lbs.

Over the last week I have burned 550 - 600# of Nut Anthracite. The Temps have been in the single numbers for the days and just below zero at night.
The Estate Hetrola is in the basement and is my only heat source. I am heating about 3,200 sq/ft. The flue pipe is 6" with a MPD. and a fields control Baro damper. The Baro damper is set at -.05 W.C. with a Dwyer manometer.
Just a side note--If I cover the Baro with tin foil the manometer jumps up to -.15 The chimney is a two flue with 8"x8" tiles and is about 44' tall.

Stay warm,
Eddie

460 lbs. for a full week here in northern Maine heating a well insulated small cape to 71 in an open area . I used 80 lbs. yesterday , that being the most I have ever burned in one day . It was very windy and cold here and the wife used lots of hot water yesterday .

1020lbs this week!! Ouch!

plumber wrote:1020lbs this week!! Ouch!

Whoa!!!!...