So I recently had a an Ecochoice PS50 installed in my basement as it tends to be quite cold there and generally warm throughout the rest of the house during the winter months using our oil fired furnace. But as we all know the price of oil is getting ridiculous! I live in Ontario Canada and I recently had my tank topped off @ $1.07 per litre. So we decided to go with something to offset the cost and pellet seemed the most practicle way. I have been running the pellet stove now for a couple days and the heat this bad boy pumps out is fantastic, however, takes a while for the upstairs to see a change in the temperature.
The layout of my home is an elevated bungalo, 1600 sq ft per level. The stairs to the basement are at the opposite side of the home as the stove, and I can feel a difference just walking 2 steps down. I decided to tap into the cold air return at the far side of the room (away from the stove) hoping to move some of the heat upstairs, it works but not to the effect I thought it would. Also the basement is fully finished insulated and we had new windows installed this past summer.
I thougth about a fan for the stairs but not sure about placement as well as I read on here about pushing cold air towards the stove instead of trying to move the heat away. Given the layout of the basement I don't know how I can achieve this. I would be lieing if I said I didn't consider putting a direct vent from the rec room to the upstairs but knowing this is a huge fire hazard I decided to put this off.
Any suggestions on moving air would be great. I have a drawing of the layout I threw together at work today but my account was just recently activated so I will have to wait until tomorrow to upload it.
Oh and one more thing, I was told running the furnace fan is like running a bigger table fan so I would see a very minor jump in my hydro bill. Is this accurate or am I in for a big surprise?
Thanks in advance!
The layout of my home is an elevated bungalo, 1600 sq ft per level. The stairs to the basement are at the opposite side of the home as the stove, and I can feel a difference just walking 2 steps down. I decided to tap into the cold air return at the far side of the room (away from the stove) hoping to move some of the heat upstairs, it works but not to the effect I thought it would. Also the basement is fully finished insulated and we had new windows installed this past summer.
I thougth about a fan for the stairs but not sure about placement as well as I read on here about pushing cold air towards the stove instead of trying to move the heat away. Given the layout of the basement I don't know how I can achieve this. I would be lieing if I said I didn't consider putting a direct vent from the rec room to the upstairs but knowing this is a huge fire hazard I decided to put this off.
Any suggestions on moving air would be great. I have a drawing of the layout I threw together at work today but my account was just recently activated so I will have to wait until tomorrow to upload it.
Oh and one more thing, I was told running the furnace fan is like running a bigger table fan so I would see a very minor jump in my hydro bill. Is this accurate or am I in for a big surprise?
Thanks in advance!
