Suggestions please!

I previously posted a question regarding my Energy King 385 EK forced air wood furnace that I could not get my house to stay warm overnight or increase room temp. My chimney is about 35 ft and I did not have a damper. So the feedback I received was add a damper because most of the heat is getting sucked out the chimney. So I added a damper. This did help and was no doubt assisted in my burn time.

But I still am having an issue with keeping my house to temp and it takes forever to get my house to increase temperature.

Yesterday around 4:00 PM I added the damper and my wall thermostat was set at 80 degrees. The room temp of my house was at 68. I ran my stove until 9 PM and I saw my room temp only increase to to 70 degrees. During this time my fan was running at a constant basis and blowing heat. When I went to bed I decreased my wall thermostat to 70 degrees. As I write this at 2 AM the inside of my house is at 60 degrees.

It seems as though unless I am burning my stove hot and my fan is running almost contunusly I am not able to do much other than just maintain room temp.

My home is just under 2,000 sq ft and brand new. I have been running this stove for just over a month now. Unless the weather outside is above 20 degrees I am waking up to a 60 degree house every morning.

Ther thermostat on my furnance is set at 100-150. I previously had it at 90-140 and was having the same issues.

Any suggestions would be more than greatly appreciated!

I need to check the size of my oil furnace. When I first purchased the wood furnace we had a few nights where it was -22 and when I woke up the house was 64-66 degrees.

Since that time I have had the cold air return for my wood furnace connected to the cold air return for my oil furnace. In addition when I was first running the stove I had the barametric damper closed off and yesterday added the damper to my stove pipe. I thought the hot air might have been flowing right out my chimney---looks like I was wrong. I think playing with the dampers hurt my draft. When I checked the stove pipe temp this morning I was at around 250-300 without the dampers I am between 350 and 400. I also adjusted my cold air return so it is now drawing from my basement and from the cold air return of my oil furnace.

I guess tonight I will see if these changes are for the positive. It really sucks waking up to 58 degrees!

Thank you for all the replies.

Here are the changes I made. I now have my cold air return pulling from both my furnace cold air return and the basement. In addition, I opened the damper in the pipe and closed off the barametric damper. I think the main issue was I was not getting enough draft. Surprising because my chimney is so high (35-40ft) but there is a Y where I connect into the chimney pipe because my furnace is set up to run off the same chimney.

I was out of town last night but my wife woke up this morning to 68 degrees after 8 hrs and the outside temp was around 5 degrees. I'll keep you posted on how things work out. Hopefully these adjustments were the issue.

I would like to get a gauge to see what the actuall fraft from my chimney pipe is and a determine what my heat output is for the registers. This will hopefully let me fine tune the settings.

I only run one unit at a time. I have dampers to close off each unit when they are not running. The oil furnace only gets used earyly fall and early spring when I don't fire the wood furnace at all.