My wife and I finally just got our FIRST Wood burning stove. We had to go with Jotul, and we decided on the Jotul F400 Castine. What a beaut.
Anywho, we placed it in our basement, right in front of our staircase. We took off the entrance door to the basement to let the heat up easily (I know, a huge fire hazard). The piping goes straight through the first floor of our ranch, through the attic, through the roof. A straight shot. Is this beneficial for draft problems I have been reading about the castine?
I, too cannot get a great overnight burn. Rarely, I get lucky. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the morning, and place two small logs in and I'm good. We use good hardwood with low moisture content. Gotta love wood moisture meters. Someone said to use a big log in the back of the stove then a bunch of small ones and then close the air control lever around 80%. I'm lucky to get 6 or 7 hours of burn. We set our furnace to 50, but we want this stove to be our primary heater and we're hoping this will be sufficient for our 1100 sq feet ranch house.
This board has been so much help and I want to thank everyone for their comments. My wife and I live in the Rochester, NY area.
My main question is this. We're spray painting our entire ceiling with a flat hunter green like color (ducts, electric cords, cable lines, beams, etc). We like to install floor grates in different areas. Anyone have ideas for ideal places? We're thinking one in the hallway, one in the bedroom and one in our living room which is directly above the room where we have the stove. Any ideas would be helpful. Is it also stupid to put to wall grates on where we boxed in the piping on the first floor (one on top, one on bottom)? I have attached a floor plan of the basement and indicated where our bedroom and living room is. I dont know if that helps. Any recommendations on where to place the floor grates would be helpful. I think since we're not doing a typical ceiling, we'll be able to add a lot of extra heat to the upstairs.
Second question. Luckily, living where we do, there is excellent seasoned hardwood. We bought 12 face cords. We stacked some on the side of our house between a fence and our wall to the garage (maybe a 3 feet gap). We placed the wood on top of 2 x 4's. Since it is seasoned, do we need to bother to cover it? The other cords of wood we stacked in a covered shed where we can feed the wood through our basement slider window. The rest is also on our covered patio. We got wood everywhere. Is this kosher? We didn't really know what 12 face cords was until we saw a dump truck come not once, but twice filled to the rim and dumped it on our driveway. We were a little overwhelmed. It took us 7 hours straight to stack it all. Wow, I never want to do that again. I think we'll be save if we buy two cords a season now, and just replenish the current supply every season.
Third question. We love the look of our apple red john wright steamer on the stove, but do they really do anything? We tried poutporri, some liquid stuff, but we never really get a scent unless you put your noise right to it. Do these steamers really do anything?
4th. Prolly stupid question, but is it okay to mount a flat screen TV about 4 feet from the stove. TV won't be in jeopardy of getting damaged right?
Thanks again guys! This board has been extremely enjoyable.
I can't wait for the winter to come!
Anywho, we placed it in our basement, right in front of our staircase. We took off the entrance door to the basement to let the heat up easily (I know, a huge fire hazard). The piping goes straight through the first floor of our ranch, through the attic, through the roof. A straight shot. Is this beneficial for draft problems I have been reading about the castine?
I, too cannot get a great overnight burn. Rarely, I get lucky. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the morning, and place two small logs in and I'm good. We use good hardwood with low moisture content. Gotta love wood moisture meters. Someone said to use a big log in the back of the stove then a bunch of small ones and then close the air control lever around 80%. I'm lucky to get 6 or 7 hours of burn. We set our furnace to 50, but we want this stove to be our primary heater and we're hoping this will be sufficient for our 1100 sq feet ranch house.
This board has been so much help and I want to thank everyone for their comments. My wife and I live in the Rochester, NY area.
My main question is this. We're spray painting our entire ceiling with a flat hunter green like color (ducts, electric cords, cable lines, beams, etc). We like to install floor grates in different areas. Anyone have ideas for ideal places? We're thinking one in the hallway, one in the bedroom and one in our living room which is directly above the room where we have the stove. Any ideas would be helpful. Is it also stupid to put to wall grates on where we boxed in the piping on the first floor (one on top, one on bottom)? I have attached a floor plan of the basement and indicated where our bedroom and living room is. I dont know if that helps. Any recommendations on where to place the floor grates would be helpful. I think since we're not doing a typical ceiling, we'll be able to add a lot of extra heat to the upstairs.
Second question. Luckily, living where we do, there is excellent seasoned hardwood. We bought 12 face cords. We stacked some on the side of our house between a fence and our wall to the garage (maybe a 3 feet gap). We placed the wood on top of 2 x 4's. Since it is seasoned, do we need to bother to cover it? The other cords of wood we stacked in a covered shed where we can feed the wood through our basement slider window. The rest is also on our covered patio. We got wood everywhere. Is this kosher? We didn't really know what 12 face cords was until we saw a dump truck come not once, but twice filled to the rim and dumped it on our driveway. We were a little overwhelmed. It took us 7 hours straight to stack it all. Wow, I never want to do that again. I think we'll be save if we buy two cords a season now, and just replenish the current supply every season.
Third question. We love the look of our apple red john wright steamer on the stove, but do they really do anything? We tried poutporri, some liquid stuff, but we never really get a scent unless you put your noise right to it. Do these steamers really do anything?
4th. Prolly stupid question, but is it okay to mount a flat screen TV about 4 feet from the stove. TV won't be in jeopardy of getting damaged right?
Thanks again guys! This board has been extremely enjoyable.
I can't wait for the winter to come!
