Been up and running for 3 and a half weeks now and just love the heat that it throws, after 25 yrs with a heat pump forgot what a warm house was till now. Have a Tri-level finish family room room where stove is keeps it 79 down there and the rest of the house at 73 and thats on settings 3/4 fan between low and med 23 degrees out there this morning house is nice and warm wish I did this along time ago. Got a free ton of Lig with the purchase and 2 tons of Turmans this weekend after trying 5 bags and looking at around to see what was in my area
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gbreda
Minister of Fire
GREAT looking install. You are going to love the heat that will put out. Mine heats the whole house from the basement
Welcome to the forum cma. Alot of great people here. Helpful info, knowledge and banter at times (a little drama now and then too). A few strange brews keep me laughing, maybe cause I identify with em
Enjoy the heat
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Geno
Welcome to the forum cma. Alot of great people here. Helpful info, knowledge and banter at times (a little drama now and then too). A few strange brews keep me laughing, maybe cause I identify with em
Enjoy the heat
!!Geno
defield
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i agree the tile work is really nice. i love my p68 too. i have a basement install in my 1 1/2 story cape and it keeps the whole house(cept the second floor, but only one register on its own zone so no biggie) warm. and yes keeping it clean makes it run so much better.
tinkabranc
Minister of Fire
Sure did, took me about 4 days to installed had the stove for weeks prior to getting it done had off for a week and decided it was time. Need to pick up another border piece and replace a piece that I chip when I set the stove on it
bungalobob
Feeling the Heat
Great lookng install! Love my P-68. Keep it clean and enjoy the heat, it will spoil you. And if you will run into some noises and squeaks and other questions and issues along the way, there are loads of useful posts here. Keep on posting your experiences, it benefits us all.
That is some nice tile work! I am in the process of doing something similar myself.
I am having a p68 installed in my basement on march 5th. I will be attempting to do
the same thing you are doing, that is heating some of the house from basement.
I have a 1950 sq. ft. ranch with superior walls foundation( r12 insulation in basement walls)
I just rolled more insulation in attic (now r49) In your opinion is it realistic to get much heat
from basement, I am not expecting miracles but some help would be good. Can you give me some
details of your situation and how well you heat your upstairs area.
Thanks Matt
I am having a p68 installed in my basement on march 5th. I will be attempting to do
the same thing you are doing, that is heating some of the house from basement.
I have a 1950 sq. ft. ranch with superior walls foundation( r12 insulation in basement walls)
I just rolled more insulation in attic (now r49) In your opinion is it realistic to get much heat
from basement, I am not expecting miracles but some help would be good. Can you give me some
details of your situation and how well you heat your upstairs area.
Thanks Matt
What I have is a 4 level tri level 3 of which is being heated by the stove about 1400 sf, the basement is a finished family room with insulated walls and ceiling where the stove is when the temps are above 30 I switch it to room temp on 75 feed rate of 4 and blower halfway and it keep the stove room at 76 and a 2 degree drop per floor and get by with a bag a day if it's windy out about a bag 1/2, below 30 and no winds or light wind I switch to stove temps settings between 2 an half and 3 stove temp 4 as feed rate blower at halfway to keep the same temps and same amount of bags being use, last night temps where in low 20 with 40 mph gust of winds and had to turn it up to 3 and half stove temp 5 feed rate blower on high to to keep house at those temps and probably will burn about 2 or 2 and 1/2 bags. House was built in 84 I replace windows and doors a couple yrs ago and have 12" batt insulation with 6" of blown in on top of it in the ceilings, I can cook the house if I wanted to but it would be cheaper to run the heat pump as it will eat the pellets like no tomorrow. Ymmv each house is different and if you place the stove upstairs I have no doubt you couldn't heat the whole upstairs with no problem but if you have 1950sf on per floor that's 3900sf you'll be trying to heat and the stove is rated at 2200sf you'll have to play with it and may need to add floor vents and fans to circulated the air or add a air return near the stove if you have ducted work and run the fan on your heat system that's what a friend of mine does on the colder night but his house is 1800sf both floors it's a raised ranch. Hope this helps some.
Thanks for the info. The whole family works so no one is home all day, so if I could just maintain decent heat without running electric baseboard
or propane fireplace then the stove will do its job.I am in the process of finishing half of the basement so the main idea is to heat that. Which I could
have gotten a much smaller stove for just that purpose.
What kind of pellets do you burn?
or propane fireplace then the stove will do its job.I am in the process of finishing half of the basement so the main idea is to heat that. Which I could
have gotten a much smaller stove for just that purpose.
What kind of pellets do you burn?
rona
Minister of Fire
Xena
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