Hello all,
New member here. And I need some advice on adding a blower to a old Cresswood insert.
Some background first.
I bought my house in October of last year and it came with about 2 face cords of wood. So I burnt that plus some dead elm I cut at a friends place. The problem is that it really didn't seem to add that much heat into the house.
The insert is on the main floor of a story and a half house in the living room. The warmest I ever had it was maybe 76 °F in the living room and the gas furnace set to 65.
So I would like to know how much of a difference a blower would make?
Also I was going to make my own blower using 2 muffin fans to move the air. How important is having variable speed on the blower? My plan was to have a "low" setting which would only run one fan and high would be both for a total of about 110 CFM. Do you all think this would work?
Thanks, Scott
New member here. And I need some advice on adding a blower to a old Cresswood insert.
Some background first.
I bought my house in October of last year and it came with about 2 face cords of wood. So I burnt that plus some dead elm I cut at a friends place. The problem is that it really didn't seem to add that much heat into the house.
The insert is on the main floor of a story and a half house in the living room. The warmest I ever had it was maybe 76 °F in the living room and the gas furnace set to 65.
So I would like to know how much of a difference a blower would make?
Also I was going to make my own blower using 2 muffin fans to move the air. How important is having variable speed on the blower? My plan was to have a "low" setting which would only run one fan and high would be both for a total of about 110 CFM. Do you all think this would work?
Thanks, Scott