The price is up to you. It is a Mama Bear good for heating 1500 sf. with a good chimney.
Stove pipe is out of the question without a chimney. Are you referring to running single wall stove pipe all the way up?
For my application, to use it in the basement, I would have to run it through the wall, leave several feet inside the wall between the woodburner and wall, then run a triple wall pipe all the way up. The basement wall is block, then the rest of the house above the basement is redwood siding. How much, if any, horizontal run could I have until I had to go vertical, is I suppose my main question. Then I realize I would probably have to go up about 15-18 feet to clear the room of the main floor. I have a sub-basement below the basement that is several rooms, but that's really not in the equation for this because the home is terraced into a hilside over looking the river, and this application would be from the basement/2nd level in the middle of the house. But ground floor in this area, as the window area I am going to redo into a wood burner area has no floor below it, and is a concrete, ground floor on that side of the house.
To clear up this picture, the house is essentially three stories, with the third level down being a 2 room subbasement separated by stairway/hallway with door on that level opening to the bottom terrace in the back. The middle level, the "basement" I want to put the woodburner in, is continuous with two large "rooms" that essentially are under the original garage, and a 10 foot opening/door to an addition basement under a garage addition. So the woodburner would essentially be on a concrete floor (or eventually nice tile over the concrete under the woodburner), in the garage basment area, but that area is continuous with the basement under the main (1st) floor of the house. It doesn't get super cold in the "basement" because the front wall of the basement is underground, and half of the back wall are the two finished roooms and a bathroom on the back side of the house (essentially the 2nd floor from the back/riverside of the house).
So only about 30 feet or so of the back walls of this "basement" are exterior walls, with the entire front wall underground, and half of the side walls underground, as the hill slopes on the sides of the house from the street level front yard.
Thus a good sized woodburner would likely make the basement very warm, and serve to provide significant heat to the entire house structure, except for the 2 room sub-basement, which is one level below to the other side of the house from where the woodburner will be. But with a fireplace and the proposed wood-burner, two fires would pretty well heat the whole house, especially if I run the HVAC on fan only at times.
I'm looking for whatever is possible to put a woodburner in my basement, and use an existing window I need to redo for the access to outside for venting the stove. I could possibly build a chimney on the back, but would rather do something I could install this winter, as in very soon. I cannot build a chimney this year due to time constraints.
I have a wood fireplace in my living room on the main level already, but about a 1000sq ft unfinished basement that is open (part of it is finished into 2 rooms and a bath, but separate from the large unfinished space). Heating that area would serve to also heat the floor for the main level of the house, and make the unfinished area, which houses my home gym, playspace for my daughter, and the laundry area, in addition to a small family room area with TV and futon, much more usable for the winter months. Plus I just love woodburning, and miss a previous house I had with a woodburner.
