1 story Ranch, trying to distribute heat sideways as best as I can to the furthest reaches of the house.
It will get down to 28F this evening, and this will be the biggest test for my insert thus far. I'm determined to keep my baseboard heat from cycling on, especially in my poorly insulated (still 4 season) sunroom.
So you come home after work and had the CAT stove loafing along all day while you're not home for ~12 hours. You maybe turn it up a bit when you get home to put some heat into the living room where u hang out, but you keep it <75F and you're not pushing your floor fans full blast, as it'd be like a wind tunnel in your living room while you hang out there.
Before you go to bed, you reload the stove, but since you are going to bed you crank the stove a bit and put it to 80F in the stove room and push your floor fans to high in hopes that keeps the rest of the house at a better temperature as the temperature outside drops through the night. And since you only sleep for 6-8 hours it's ok to burn faster, since you will reload when you wake up.
Is this a sound strategy? Anyone following this? Or how do you prepare for the coldest part of the day? Thx.
It will get down to 28F this evening, and this will be the biggest test for my insert thus far. I'm determined to keep my baseboard heat from cycling on, especially in my poorly insulated (still 4 season) sunroom.
So you come home after work and had the CAT stove loafing along all day while you're not home for ~12 hours. You maybe turn it up a bit when you get home to put some heat into the living room where u hang out, but you keep it <75F and you're not pushing your floor fans full blast, as it'd be like a wind tunnel in your living room while you hang out there.
Before you go to bed, you reload the stove, but since you are going to bed you crank the stove a bit and put it to 80F in the stove room and push your floor fans to high in hopes that keeps the rest of the house at a better temperature as the temperature outside drops through the night. And since you only sleep for 6-8 hours it's ok to burn faster, since you will reload when you wake up.
Is this a sound strategy? Anyone following this? Or how do you prepare for the coldest part of the day? Thx.
You're working with a tough floor plan so that sunroom is probably gonna be chilly unless you get it insulated better or close it off during the winter months. That poorly insulated sunroom is also stealing a lot of your precious heat! As funds/time are available it sounds like the best fix is going to be tightening up that room.
