"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
03/16/2015 at 22:00 • Filed to: None
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"zeontestpilot" (zeontestpilot)
03/16/2015 at 22:00 • Filed to: None | 0
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Actually, I'm just really confused as to what's happening, and want some insight.
We heat by wood, I burned 4 pieces earlier at about 9am (it's about 10pm right now). It was 72 F. The embers should be mostly dead, at least the outside of it. So I don't believe much heat is left in them. Our furnace turns on when the temp hits 68 F. So the furnace has not turned on at all.
When the fire died, the temp was about 75 F. This was about noon time. For some reason, it had been getting hotter. It's currently 78 F.
We do have a gaslog fireplace on the other side in the house, but the only time the differences in the temps meet is at the doorway. You can feel the difference, they don't really interact, they are separate environments.
So Oppo, any ideas why it has been getting hotter? The temp outside is 55 F, and it was 45 F earlier. But I'm really confused as to how the temp can still raise with no additional heat sources.
itschrome
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:03 |
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Have you verified that the house is indeed not on fire its self?
The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:10 |
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Has a lady friend stopped by? Or guy friend. Not judging.
doodon2whls
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:11 |
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You burned the wood in a stove or high efficiency fireplace insert, I presume?
The heat of combustion was transferred into the stove which continued radiating heat into the house well after the fire was exitinguished. There is a lot of thermal mass in a large stove, which delays the transfer of heat from combustion, but continues to radiate that heat well after the heat source is extinguished.
IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:11 |
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The sun. Ever wonder why it feels warmer in the sun than it does in the shade? Solar radiation. It's independent of air temperature, just like how on a hot summer day when you get back to your car and the inside of your car is WAY hotter than the air outside. It's like that, except for a house.
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:12 |
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Actually, maybe with the live fire, more air was rising up through the chimney than after the fire died? If air is rising up and out the chimney, air must be entering the house from somewhere else. Like drafty doors allowing cold air in from the outside?
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The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
03/16/2015 at 22:15 |
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It's also why you wear shorts indoors in the summer with the thermostat at 70 and you wear pants and a sweater indoors in the winter with the thermostat at 70.
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zeontestpilot
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
03/16/2015 at 22:18 |
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true, but it's been dark for a bit now, and that's when it went from 77 to 78. It could be just a fluke though...
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zeontestpilot
> itschrome
03/16/2015 at 22:19 |
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Yep the smoke detector is up....umm...brb?
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:22 |
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I guarantee you the reason why your house heated up throughout the day was the sun. 100%.
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zeontestpilot
> doodon2whls
03/16/2015 at 22:25 |
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We burn in a stove. The stove isn't cast iron, so it doesn't keep hot very well throughout the day. It's a decent size stove though, but it's simple. There's no way to control the air being sucked in, so it's always doing that.
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zeontestpilot
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
03/16/2015 at 22:27 |
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Some of the windows do leak, but that's more if the cooler air, which if imagine should bring the overall temp down. That's what's been happening every other night.
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zeontestpilot
> The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123
03/16/2015 at 22:29 |
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Ha, well, I did work from home today, and my wife was home as well...
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zeontestpilot
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
03/16/2015 at 22:32 |
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Wouldn't trees prevent that? Correction, hinder it? We're surrounded by trees, granted they are leaf-less right now.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> zeontestpilot
03/16/2015 at 22:38 |
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How exactly would leafless trees prevent sunlight from hitting your house?
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zeontestpilot
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
03/16/2015 at 22:45 |
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....I don't know, I'm tired. Your point is quite valid.