Hey Guys,
I just signed up today so forgive me if this has been posted before. I bought my first house this summer and had a Harman TL300 put in this fall. The gas company doesn't need any more of my money...Anyhow, I've been burning pretty much non stop since late October and now that its cold, daytime highs in the teens, my stove is eating wood like crazy!! I think I'm using almost a complete face cord of seasoned beech and hard maple per week to heat a 15 year old 2200 (1100 ft on each floor) square foot ranch home, and its not over 70 degrees upstairs. The stove is in the partially exposed walkout basement at the one of the house. The only other thing in the basement is the staircase leading to the upstairs about 1/3 of the way across the room. In order to at least get temps in the mid to high 60's upstairs I must keep the front draft control at the middle notch when the afterburn kicks in. I usually load the stove up around 1030 over a good bed of coals, let it catch good and get in afterburn, then close the front draft to the middle, and by morning I have just enough coals to get it going again. I would love to close the front control, more but its too cold upstairs to do it. I have a fan in the staircase to blow heat upstairs and another fan in the basement to help push the heat to the opposite end of the house. I cut 12, 4"by 12" floor registers in the floor upstairs to help as well. My bedroom which is at the opposite end of the house from the stove will be in the high 50's when I get up in the morning. I don't like it hot upstairs, but after working outside all day, everday, it feels nice to be warm. Am I missing something or does everything sound ok.
Thanks for any advice!
Brandon
I just signed up today so forgive me if this has been posted before. I bought my first house this summer and had a Harman TL300 put in this fall. The gas company doesn't need any more of my money...Anyhow, I've been burning pretty much non stop since late October and now that its cold, daytime highs in the teens, my stove is eating wood like crazy!! I think I'm using almost a complete face cord of seasoned beech and hard maple per week to heat a 15 year old 2200 (1100 ft on each floor) square foot ranch home, and its not over 70 degrees upstairs. The stove is in the partially exposed walkout basement at the one of the house. The only other thing in the basement is the staircase leading to the upstairs about 1/3 of the way across the room. In order to at least get temps in the mid to high 60's upstairs I must keep the front draft control at the middle notch when the afterburn kicks in. I usually load the stove up around 1030 over a good bed of coals, let it catch good and get in afterburn, then close the front draft to the middle, and by morning I have just enough coals to get it going again. I would love to close the front control, more but its too cold upstairs to do it. I have a fan in the staircase to blow heat upstairs and another fan in the basement to help push the heat to the opposite end of the house. I cut 12, 4"by 12" floor registers in the floor upstairs to help as well. My bedroom which is at the opposite end of the house from the stove will be in the high 50's when I get up in the morning. I don't like it hot upstairs, but after working outside all day, everday, it feels nice to be warm. Am I missing something or does everything sound ok.
Thanks for any advice!
Brandon