I need a little help from all you pros... here it goes..
Interested in:
I am in the market for a wood fireplace insert. The 2 brands I am looking at are Regency and Napoleon (I was looking at Jotul, but they are quite a bit more pricey)
Regency i2400 and Napoleon 1403
About the house:
I currently live in a Bungalow with a footprint of about 1400sqft. It is an older house from the early 60's, so we might be a bit limited by a non-open floor plan. I would like to add the insert into the basement fireplace which is directly below the main floor foreplace in the living room/dinning room.
The basement room with the fireplace is about 25x13ft. The fire place is at the end of the room on an outside wall. Outside of this room is a large hallway area with doors that loead to another room larger than the last and a large laundry room.
The stairs to the mainfloor are also in this hallway.
The real question:
Now, with the floorplan being of a non-open concept nature, will the heat from either of these 2 inserts be able to heat the rest of the basement? Will it radiate to the main floor at all?
Shoulod I be looking into another sort of insert? Are any brands better than the rest?
Obviously I do not think that this will heat my entire home, but I'm hoping it will do about half and let the gas furnace do the rest.
I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
Thanks
Ryan
Interested in:
I am in the market for a wood fireplace insert. The 2 brands I am looking at are Regency and Napoleon (I was looking at Jotul, but they are quite a bit more pricey)
Regency i2400 and Napoleon 1403
About the house:
I currently live in a Bungalow with a footprint of about 1400sqft. It is an older house from the early 60's, so we might be a bit limited by a non-open floor plan. I would like to add the insert into the basement fireplace which is directly below the main floor foreplace in the living room/dinning room.
The basement room with the fireplace is about 25x13ft. The fire place is at the end of the room on an outside wall. Outside of this room is a large hallway area with doors that loead to another room larger than the last and a large laundry room.
The stairs to the mainfloor are also in this hallway.
The real question:
Now, with the floorplan being of a non-open concept nature, will the heat from either of these 2 inserts be able to heat the rest of the basement? Will it radiate to the main floor at all?
Shoulod I be looking into another sort of insert? Are any brands better than the rest?
Obviously I do not think that this will heat my entire home, but I'm hoping it will do about half and let the gas furnace do the rest.
I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Thanks in advance for any help you can give!
Thanks
Ryan