I've lived with lots of different wood stoves, but I now have my first gas stove, and I'm not sure if it's working correctly or not. We bought a Travis Industries 616 GSR2 Diamond-Fyre Insert, and had it installed in the fall of 2013. It's in a room that is about 20' x 40', but the specs said that it would heat a much larger space. I don't remember the details, because it was supposed to heat a much larger space, so I didn't need to worry about the details. Anyhow, on her work-from-home days, my wife wanted to work downstairs, but she found that it was too cold. With the stove's blower going full blast, it's louder than we thought it should be, and it still wasn't warming the room enough, so she added a couple electric fans blowing towards it, put a curtain across the stairwell to the upstairs, and a curtain across a section of the room (taking out about 20' x 9'). With those measures in place, it was okay except her feet were cold.
We have a house built in 1960 with crappy insulation, but I haven't gotten around to replacing the insulation because a) western Washington state isn't that cold, and b) the upstairs is warm because of the fire, and c) we have a gas furnace that heats the whole house if we need it to. But we were hoping that we could heat just the downstairs, and the stove we bought should have done the trick. Where do I begin when trying to solve this mystery?
We have a house built in 1960 with crappy insulation, but I haven't gotten around to replacing the insulation because a) western Washington state isn't that cold, and b) the upstairs is warm because of the fire, and c) we have a gas furnace that heats the whole house if we need it to. But we were hoping that we could heat just the downstairs, and the stove we bought should have done the trick. Where do I begin when trying to solve this mystery?
