Stove for an unfinished basement

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I agree with everyone here who is preaching the insert. A friend has a Quadrafire in his basement and still has a tough time heating his whole house with it. It will heat the first floor fine, but not the second. The basements walls were poured with ICFs and the rim joints are completely sealed with expanding foam (whole house was done that way) so the basement gets really hot but the heat just does not transfer upstairs. In contrast I have a medium-sized Pacific Energy insert on the first floor and have no problems heating my whole house.

Regarding your basement, if it is really cold down there, I suggest air sealing as much as possible. Concentrate on the rim joist area. If you want to get really serious, put up 2" foam board over the upper 4' of the walls. This should stabilize the basement temp at around 55F, which while not warm, is not frigid either.
 
Gator eye said:
Looks like a perfect fit for a wood furnace with the duct work running right beside the chimney He could heat is whole house instead of just a few rooms.

Looks like plenty of room for a furnace if you set it on the floor.
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This may be a stupid question but could I still have my propane heat pump operational along with a wood furnace tied into the duct work, for switching if I'm away for a while? Also, my AC is tied into that duct work as well.
 
silentbob said:
BeGreen said:
Where is the furnace located? Is it in the new part and is there a higher ceiling there?
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No, the furnace is located in the old area. The addition was built over a crawl space. I assume the original heat source for this house was wood or coal and tied into that chimney.

I just measured the ceiling height, from the cement pad to the floor joists is 75" and to the actual floor is 85". Again, this section is not insulated.
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It sounds marginal, but perhaps possible to sneak in a furnace there. It will still have the clearance requirements for the flue connection and the supply will need to stay away from the joists, but it might be possible. It will eat a lot of wood so you might think about the transporting of fuel down there. But it may work.
 
I have bilco doors to access the outside so the transportation would not have to go through the house and I plan on building a wood shed fairly close to the bilco doors.
 
Sorry to go off topic....What is the boxed in piece above the couch? I hope that is an asthetic beam or duct work and not supposed to be structural as I don't see where it is shouldering the weight if it is.
 
Honestly, I don't know but I assume it's a beam being supported by the header in the opening and the other side (which you can't see in that picture) is boxed out to the floor (which I assume is a support). Can never tell in this house, the previous did a lot of questionable things, which I'm slowly fixing.
 
silentbob said:
Honestly, I don't know but I assume it's a beam being supported by the header in the opening and the other side (which you can't see in that picture) is boxed out to the floor (which I assume is a support). Can never tell in this house, the previous did a lot of questionable things, which I'm slowly fixing.
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Yeah -- judging by the exterior photo, it looks like it runs down the middle of that part of the house, under the ridge of the 2nd (and 3rd!) floor's roof.

Hopefully there's a mighty big beam over that door -- or steel.
 
It's 12" from the bottom of the beam to the bottom of that header. You can actually see the other support in one of those pictures. I'll ask my contractor what he thinks when comes out this weekend to look at a leaky window.
 
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