I've been a lurker for quite a while now, but I figure it's probably time to come out and sign up/post!
Anyway, I have a little bit of a dilemma. I'm confused on placement of a new wood stove, although I pretty much have a good idea of what type of wood stove I'll be getting.
I was very interested in the Blaze king Queen, but now I see they've came out with the new Chinook CBT. I'm waiting for a response from them on what the actual minimum BTU output is, since that is what actually is my main concern as far as the stove goes. Doing a little math guesstimation, the Princess has roughly the same firebox size with a 20 hour burn time at 6,400 BTU... The Chinook has a 30 hour burn time, which should place it somewhere around 4,200 BTU... By using the math from the princess. But there's so many variables, I can't really go by that.
My house is only 827sq/ft, so I don't want to get roasted out especially when it's only 40-50 degrees out, but still need heat. Technically it's only 727 sq/ft that gets heated, as I have an unheated laundry room... but I would like to heat that if possible, especially if I'm using wood heat. It's a small add on that the owner did 30+ years ago, with a concrete pad and 2x4 walls/ceiling. So that's only R-13 all the way around, which is kind of costly to keep up with using LP to heat it when it's not needed.
Currently the ceilings in my house have approx 3-4 inches of insulation in the ceiling, so figure R-13 there, and the walls/floors are uninsulated. I've already gutted/rebuilt the Kitchen/Bath/Laundry rooms last season and intend on doing the rest of it after the heating season is over.
So that brings us to the placement of the new wood stove... I have two locations in mind, maybe someone else has a better idea. I've an image here of the house laid out with the current heater position on it. The previous owners of the house used to heat with wood, but a year before they sold it they switched over to a LP stove. The wood stove was in the same location as the current stove.
I can either put the wood stove where it has been, or move it over to the Dining room area, and use the fans on the stove to blow the heat in to the main living area, instead of blowing all of the heat in to a wall.
The other reason for relocating it, is to just get it out of the way. It would take up quite a bit of usable floor space in the middle of the house, after you account for clearances and hearth pad.
Anyone have suggestions on what the best location would be for it? Since nearly the whole house will be gutted, it can really be placed anywhere.
Pardon my sloppy handwriting.
The drawing was done in inventor '09 in a few minutes.
Direct link to view dimensions if you wish, just remove the period of course.
.http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/Leety/scan0002.jpg
Anyway, I have a little bit of a dilemma. I'm confused on placement of a new wood stove, although I pretty much have a good idea of what type of wood stove I'll be getting.
I was very interested in the Blaze king Queen, but now I see they've came out with the new Chinook CBT. I'm waiting for a response from them on what the actual minimum BTU output is, since that is what actually is my main concern as far as the stove goes. Doing a little math guesstimation, the Princess has roughly the same firebox size with a 20 hour burn time at 6,400 BTU... The Chinook has a 30 hour burn time, which should place it somewhere around 4,200 BTU... By using the math from the princess. But there's so many variables, I can't really go by that.
My house is only 827sq/ft, so I don't want to get roasted out especially when it's only 40-50 degrees out, but still need heat. Technically it's only 727 sq/ft that gets heated, as I have an unheated laundry room... but I would like to heat that if possible, especially if I'm using wood heat. It's a small add on that the owner did 30+ years ago, with a concrete pad and 2x4 walls/ceiling. So that's only R-13 all the way around, which is kind of costly to keep up with using LP to heat it when it's not needed.
Currently the ceilings in my house have approx 3-4 inches of insulation in the ceiling, so figure R-13 there, and the walls/floors are uninsulated. I've already gutted/rebuilt the Kitchen/Bath/Laundry rooms last season and intend on doing the rest of it after the heating season is over.
So that brings us to the placement of the new wood stove... I have two locations in mind, maybe someone else has a better idea. I've an image here of the house laid out with the current heater position on it. The previous owners of the house used to heat with wood, but a year before they sold it they switched over to a LP stove. The wood stove was in the same location as the current stove.
I can either put the wood stove where it has been, or move it over to the Dining room area, and use the fans on the stove to blow the heat in to the main living area, instead of blowing all of the heat in to a wall.
The other reason for relocating it, is to just get it out of the way. It would take up quite a bit of usable floor space in the middle of the house, after you account for clearances and hearth pad.
Anyone have suggestions on what the best location would be for it? Since nearly the whole house will be gutted, it can really be placed anywhere.
Pardon my sloppy handwriting.
The drawing was done in inventor '09 in a few minutes.
Direct link to view dimensions if you wish, just remove the period of course.
.http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e372/Leety/scan0002.jpg