Hi, Recently purchased a woodstock steel hybrid stove, initially it put out a ton of heat, as it has gotten colder not so much. The stove is located in a semi finished basement three and a half of the walls have R-19 and 5/8 rock, I also have R-30 stuffed in the end of the the floor joist/ ceiling bays long the outside perimeter of the house, Stove is located on a stone hearth and a stone and brick wall veneered to the exterior block masonry wall behind the stove. Chimney is approx 22 feet vertical, 8 inch double wall through the wall up the exterior of the house.
I am burning a mix of hardwoods, red and white oak, ash, maple, locust that is covered dry (moisture content of around 10%) Stove has a cat, engaged, according to manual at 300-350, have been leaving air at 1/3 and moving it up to 1/2. I stand 4-5 feet away from stove and should be getting blasted away by the heat, however it barely keeps the basement warm let alone the rest of the house. Just ordered a damper to install in the chimney to see if I am losing heat up the chimney pipe. Perhaps I am losing heat through the masonry wall behind the stove? This is a big stove though and I feel results should be better/ different.
looking at a lot of the other posts seems most people are very satisfied with this stove. Reached out to Woodstock and followed the suggestions provided but really no change in performance.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank's
I am burning a mix of hardwoods, red and white oak, ash, maple, locust that is covered dry (moisture content of around 10%) Stove has a cat, engaged, according to manual at 300-350, have been leaving air at 1/3 and moving it up to 1/2. I stand 4-5 feet away from stove and should be getting blasted away by the heat, however it barely keeps the basement warm let alone the rest of the house. Just ordered a damper to install in the chimney to see if I am losing heat up the chimney pipe. Perhaps I am losing heat through the masonry wall behind the stove? This is a big stove though and I feel results should be better/ different.
looking at a lot of the other posts seems most people are very satisfied with this stove. Reached out to Woodstock and followed the suggestions provided but really no change in performance.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank's