When do you put on the heat?

[UserRemoved1]

We're on about 4 nights with the pellet stove running on 3. Had to shut it off last night it was 75 upstairs. Free Pellets this year due to a factory effup on original product. Have an addition on one side that is a family room-is on oil zone and pellet heat really don't get in there. I turned the zone on once watching tv one night.

[Raven]

i'll use an electric oil filled heater for the small office to keep me cozy and warm

occasionally the heat is turned on to 68 to bring the house up to
a comfortable temperature then its shut off again.

to maximize the heat from the dryer "typically wasted" i am going to recirculate it thru the old forced hot air ducts here (reconfigured) since they're not used anymore and the house has base board heating now.

i am going to fill certain larger sections with bricks that have 3 holes in them so they get warmed up and then send that extra heat out to the green house which is down hill from the house and on sunny days it'll work in reverse and the extra heat will travel from the green house back up to the basement and heat the bricks from the other direction when the dryer isn't being used.