New Stove - up to three

So, I have the Harmon PF-100 in the basement and an older manual start stove on the far end of the house.

Earlier this week my wife to be found an englander 25-PV(something) advertised. It's the 1500 sqft model and was said to be (and looks to be) 1 year old. It came with all piping (and the guy had a ton), the thimble, cover and OAK, plus a ton of lignetics pellets for $700... good deal? I thought so.

We picked it up and installed it the great room which is a bit drafty. 25 foot cathedral ceilings and gigantic 6' windows all over the place. Very hard to heat.

This brings the total to 2 stoves and 1 furnace on pellets. We ran the two stoves with a bag each set to medium.

Woke up this morning in a sweat and the house was 80 degrees. The Harmon was shut off all together. The only downside is now my bathroom is the only room is cold.

We may have over done it on the stoves, but overall it seems to be more efficient to run two stoves on low rather than the furnace. The only downside is the icy cold bathroom

Any thoughts?

mass_burner said:

have ya beat by 1.

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Very nice! I thought I was being excessive. I knew that someone here would have me beat.

The issue is simply poor construction in the bathroom. Thin walls, almost zero floor insulation and 6 skylight windows. It stays almost the same temp as the outside in the winter (without the furnace) and double the temp in the summer without AC.

So far, the largest space heaters I've tried to use have zero effect.

I'll look up what you guys have mentioned

Dont have a specific size but its too large. Its larger than our guest bedrooms. If it wasnt for the bathtub and toilet you could throw a king sized bed in there and have plenty of room for the rest of the bedroom furniture