- Oct 3, 2007
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I have an Englander 28-3500 which is tied into my ductwork and heats my 1000 SF ranch. The Englander is in the basement right next to the oil furnace which was the most convenient place because there was a basement window right behind it. I bricked up the window with a thimble in the middle and was able to run my flue right out the side of the house. It's a great setup with one drawback-on the colder nights (sub 20 degree temperatures) I really have to pull out the big guns (high BTU hardwoods) and load up the furnace to keep the house warm through the night because its an older house and I've not yet begun to do much insulating/air sealing. It did a great job the night before last when it dipped to 12 °F, but that comes at a price. Our bedroom is directly above the furnace room and the radiant heat coming off of it rises through the floor and cooks the bedroom. I close off the register in the room at the beginning of the season because we don't need the heated air since there is so much radiant heat coming through the floor. I went way overkill on the install too-double wall stove pipe in the house, a 4' x 4' Durock heatshield mounted on the ceiling above the furnace with a 3" air gap between the shield and the ceiling joists, etc... There is also an outside air vent incorporated into the old window opening via a louver that I installed to make sure that the furnace always got enough air.
On Tuesday night (12 degrees) at 4:00 a.m. the rest of the house was a comfortable 72 but the room was 76-needless to say the wife was not happy :red: We even had a window cracked in the room. I suppose we could try them wide open, but that also doesn't help with retaining humidity on cold dry nights. We have a humidifier that runs all night in our room or else we wake up with our eyelids stuck closed :lol: I wonder if the better solution is to insulate the ceiling in the furnace room in an effort to keep the heat out of the bedroom?
On Tuesday night (12 degrees) at 4:00 a.m. the rest of the house was a comfortable 72 but the room was 76-needless to say the wife was not happy :red: We even had a window cracked in the room. I suppose we could try them wide open, but that also doesn't help with retaining humidity on cold dry nights. We have a humidifier that runs all night in our room or else we wake up with our eyelids stuck closed :lol: I wonder if the better solution is to insulate the ceiling in the furnace room in an effort to keep the heat out of the bedroom?