Hello everyone. I am a newb on the forum and with my stove. Do to the outrageous cost of electric heat, I decided to install a wood stove insert into our living room fireplace. While I wanted something that would put out mad heat, but looked more utilitarian, my wife wanted something attractive since it would be in the main room of the house. So, compromising, we settled for the HI300. It is a very attractive stove and really dresses our living room up. However, looks don't heat a room and this is a mid-size stove, where I really could have used a large one.
The layout of the house is a bit hard to explain, but it is essentially a split level dug into the side of a hill. This split level is set up a bit differently than the traditional. When you come in the front door, you are entering the living room which is about 15'x40'. The dining room and kitchen are to the left when you enter the house with the living room to the right. The ceiling in the living room is 10' high and open to the hallway, which is more like a balcony, across the back wall of the room. The bedrooms are at each end. So, when you enter the house you are looking at the stairs on the far wall. You can go up to the hall way or down to the basement which is about the same size as the living room, with an additional fireplace. The total above grade area is 2020 square feet. So, heating this area is at the top end of this stoves range. It keeps the living room, right by the stove at about 67, with temp dropping down to 61 in the kitchen, which is the furthest away. The upstairs stays at about 70. Mind you, this is only using the stove with a high today of 32.
So, my question is mostly to others with the same stove. How are you running your stove to reach the best btu output? This is my first stove and I have been burning it with the draft wide open all day since I installed it last Saturday. I haven't over fired it, yet. And, I do need to place a couple of ceiling fans in the room to push the heat down and around, perhaps then I wouldn't need to burn it so hard.
I have a hearth heater in the fireplace in the basement, but it is quite inefficient and doesn't throw off much heat.
Thanks.
The layout of the house is a bit hard to explain, but it is essentially a split level dug into the side of a hill. This split level is set up a bit differently than the traditional. When you come in the front door, you are entering the living room which is about 15'x40'. The dining room and kitchen are to the left when you enter the house with the living room to the right. The ceiling in the living room is 10' high and open to the hallway, which is more like a balcony, across the back wall of the room. The bedrooms are at each end. So, when you enter the house you are looking at the stairs on the far wall. You can go up to the hall way or down to the basement which is about the same size as the living room, with an additional fireplace. The total above grade area is 2020 square feet. So, heating this area is at the top end of this stoves range. It keeps the living room, right by the stove at about 67, with temp dropping down to 61 in the kitchen, which is the furthest away. The upstairs stays at about 70. Mind you, this is only using the stove with a high today of 32.
So, my question is mostly to others with the same stove. How are you running your stove to reach the best btu output? This is my first stove and I have been burning it with the draft wide open all day since I installed it last Saturday. I haven't over fired it, yet. And, I do need to place a couple of ceiling fans in the room to push the heat down and around, perhaps then I wouldn't need to burn it so hard.
I have a hearth heater in the fireplace in the basement, but it is quite inefficient and doesn't throw off much heat.
Thanks.
