I've been happily heating a poorly insulated and leaky house the past 3 years with an Englander 13 in northern Iowa. It does fine to about -10 F or very high winds with single digit temps. This spring however I'll be building a new house on the property. It will be about 750 sq ft with a full basement (shop). The basement will be very well insulated, as will the rest of the house.
Knowing how well it can do in the current house I'm a little concerned the Englander is going to cook me out of the place. What can those of you with newly constructed and well insulated homes tell me about heating them? Am I going to be better off with something smaller? I prefer the house to be in the mid-upper 60's. Over 70 I start to get uncomfortable, especially if I'm in the room with the stove
I've also never used a wood stove to heat a home with a basement. How much of the heat from the main level is going to get downstairs? If I want to work comfortably down there will I need another heat source?
Tentative floor plan:
measurements by Alan Gage, on Flickr
I tried to place the stove against an interior wall, more centrally located, but just couldn't come up with anything I was happy with. Where it is now I can watch the stove as well as everything going on outside. Thinking I have more stove than I need I wasn't too worried about losing some heat through the windows and wall.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Alan
Knowing how well it can do in the current house I'm a little concerned the Englander is going to cook me out of the place. What can those of you with newly constructed and well insulated homes tell me about heating them? Am I going to be better off with something smaller? I prefer the house to be in the mid-upper 60's. Over 70 I start to get uncomfortable, especially if I'm in the room with the stove
I've also never used a wood stove to heat a home with a basement. How much of the heat from the main level is going to get downstairs? If I want to work comfortably down there will I need another heat source?
Tentative floor plan:
measurements by Alan Gage, on Flickr
I tried to place the stove against an interior wall, more centrally located, but just couldn't come up with anything I was happy with. Where it is now I can watch the stove as well as everything going on outside. Thinking I have more stove than I need I wasn't too worried about losing some heat through the windows and wall.
Thanks for any thoughts.
Alan