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Enough for a month of what? Small decorative fires part of the day, or fires large enough to heat the house and cook food on 24/7? The fireplaces I’m familiar w
by lazyasciiart 4y ago
Enough for a month of what? Small decorative fires part of the day, or fires large enough to heat the house and cook food on 24/7? The fireplaces I’m familiar with would never heat the entire house, no matter how much wood you had outside.
- trillic 4y agoYou don't need to heat an entire house to stay alive. Just enough so the people sitting next to the fire don't die of hypothermia
- lazyasciiart 4y agoSure. So enough wood to keep that room warm 12 hours a day for a month suddenly became enough wood to keep that room warm 24 hours a day for two weeks. The family that happened to put in a months supply two weeks before the storm started only had enough for one week of full time fires, and that ran out days ago. (The suburban european houses with a fireplace I know are more likely to burn it a few hours each day, which makes their month of wood worth only a few days of full reliance).
- SyzygistSix 4y agoIn Pittsburgh after the blizzard, we all slept in the family/living room where the fireplace was, in sleeping bags. I think power was out for a week to 10 days?
- alar44 4y agoYou don't need large fires to heat a home. All wood burning furnaces I've used are smaller than a cubic meter.