Is dealer right that a pellet stove in my 2000 ft basement will not help me heat the house?

The best answer is it depends. If you do like the last poster said and make provisions to move the air around then it would probably work. I tried it in my basement without adding floor registers and the heat never got up the basement stairs. Nice and toasty basement though.

I too want to try a pellet stove in an open basement with insulted walls and the ceiling is insulated because i have tubing for hot water heat from my gas and electric boiler. I put in a electric boiler and went to off peak electric this year, which is 60% of the heating time but the other 40% is propane and those prices have went through the roof. I would like the pellet stove to take place of the propane boiler so i would not have to use that fuel. I too was thinking if i left the stair well door open and cutting in some vents in the in the upstairs floor. My basemnet and 1st floor each is 1450 sq ft. So i would like to use the pellet with my electric boiler during different hours of the day.

Thanks for any input.

pelletsrevil said:

I told you the truth 4 bags a day(we lit it oct 18 and we were out New Years Eve 4 tons) and it was cold in here,it was hot in front of the stove but move back even just 5 feet and you could feel the difference. Maybe St. Croix are bad stoves,I don't know. I do know this,my dealer does not carry them any longer and they won't tell me why.

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You sound like my wife. She thinks the stove isn't keeping our house warm because it is 80 degrees in the family room, and only 72 in the rest of the first floor. So when you enter the family room, and go into the dining room, it feels like an icebox. Of course it will feel warmer in the room with the stove.. With that said, 4 bags a day is crazy..

it will heat only the rooms above it.it will work on a small house with only a first floor.like i said a small house.

With my stove on high, I could burn 3 bags a day, but the shingles would melt.

slls said:

With my stove on high, I could burn 3 bags a day, but the shingles would melt.

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It does take alot of pellets to do it.