Hi all.
New to the forums here. Nice place!
I'll get right down to business. I just bought this house in May of last year and it is my first winter here.
I have a 47 year old 1100 square foot bungalow that is well insulated upstairs with all new windows and doors. Nothing really drafty. The basement is partially finished. There was an older model woodstove in the basement and selkirk chimney. After having them inspected I decided to replace the stove with something newer and more efficient. I bought a Pacific Energy Super 27.
I've been less than impressed with its performance. My wood is dry hardwood. A mix a different types but seasoned and most if it is quite dry. No hissing while burning. The draft is ferocious. On anything less than minimum/off it will make the inside of my stove glow cherry red and occasionally the top will even glow at the joint. It takes about 5-7 minutes from coals to go to a stack temperature of 1200-1400F. If I forget and go down and check in 15 minutes it will be glowing.
That being said, it is doing a terrible job of keeping the house warm unless it is running red hot. Our outside air temps this time of year range from +2C to -10C with occasional days down around -15. On the last minus 15 day if the bedrooms on the opposite side of of house are 16C or so. The room directly above the stove will hold about 20C if I keep dumping logs into it.
I added a blower to the stove and it barely helped. I have fans to circulate the air but most cold days the oil furnace has to come on periodically to keep the house at 20 and the back rooms are still cold. I even ghettoed up a hood and fan assembly to blow the air from the stove into the ducts and without that it would be useless. I have no idea what I am doing wrong here.
If I had of known it would be like this I would have saved my $2000.00 and got a wood furnace instead. My neighbour has one in his drafty old farmhouse and its 28-30C in there on the coldest days so far. In my old 2400 sq ft house I had a small fireplace insert and it did a far better job.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? I am going through far too much wood for what I am getting out of it.
Thanks
New to the forums here. Nice place!
I'll get right down to business. I just bought this house in May of last year and it is my first winter here.
I have a 47 year old 1100 square foot bungalow that is well insulated upstairs with all new windows and doors. Nothing really drafty. The basement is partially finished. There was an older model woodstove in the basement and selkirk chimney. After having them inspected I decided to replace the stove with something newer and more efficient. I bought a Pacific Energy Super 27.
I've been less than impressed with its performance. My wood is dry hardwood. A mix a different types but seasoned and most if it is quite dry. No hissing while burning. The draft is ferocious. On anything less than minimum/off it will make the inside of my stove glow cherry red and occasionally the top will even glow at the joint. It takes about 5-7 minutes from coals to go to a stack temperature of 1200-1400F. If I forget and go down and check in 15 minutes it will be glowing.
That being said, it is doing a terrible job of keeping the house warm unless it is running red hot. Our outside air temps this time of year range from +2C to -10C with occasional days down around -15. On the last minus 15 day if the bedrooms on the opposite side of of house are 16C or so. The room directly above the stove will hold about 20C if I keep dumping logs into it.
I added a blower to the stove and it barely helped. I have fans to circulate the air but most cold days the oil furnace has to come on periodically to keep the house at 20 and the back rooms are still cold. I even ghettoed up a hood and fan assembly to blow the air from the stove into the ducts and without that it would be useless. I have no idea what I am doing wrong here.
If I had of known it would be like this I would have saved my $2000.00 and got a wood furnace instead. My neighbour has one in his drafty old farmhouse and its 28-30C in there on the coldest days so far. In my old 2400 sq ft house I had a small fireplace insert and it did a far better job.
Is there anything I can do to fix this? I am going through far too much wood for what I am getting out of it.
Thanks