I was hoping someone would have an opinion where the best spot to put another stove in our home would be . We have approx. 3000 sf. on 3 floors. Basement and 1st floor have the same amount-around 1200 sf. The 2nd floor has the bedrooms and bathrooms with the remainder. On the 1st floor behind the garage is our family room and I have a Lopi Freedom Bay insert installed. It does a great job of heating,-sometimes to much- but my home is older and doesn't have an open floor plan so it's hard to move the heat around. I try to move the air with ceiling fans to the foyer so it can rise upstairs, but it hasn't been very successful. I could put a stove next to the foyer in the living room, but was wondering if I should put it in the basement instead. We use the basement and 1/2 of it is finished. It is never very warm down there because of the way they originally ran the heat so we end up using a space heater most of the time. I have a living room, kitchen, bed and bath down there and it is a walk out basement. Anyone have ideas which would be a better use of the stove? If heat rises wouldn't the basement be a good choice? My furnace fan runs on DC so it is always running to help move air. Any thoughts?
Best location for stove.
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Hi -
I'm wondering:
How much wood are you burning now?
How much it costs you, can you get more at a reasonable cost?
How well insulated is the basement?
How much the basement stove would be used?
If the living space is occupied a fair amount of the time and wood is'n hard to come by, a large stove (3 cubic ft. min. firebox) might make sense it could be fired a couple times a day.
That said, most basements are not insulated well and insulating tends to pay back quicker.
ATB,
Mike
I'm wondering:
How much wood are you burning now?
How much it costs you, can you get more at a reasonable cost?
How well insulated is the basement?
How much the basement stove would be used?
If the living space is occupied a fair amount of the time and wood is'n hard to come by, a large stove (3 cubic ft. min. firebox) might make sense it could be fired a couple times a day.
That said, most basements are not insulated well and insulating tends to pay back quicker.
ATB,
Mike
Right now we go through less than 1 cord because I can't distribute the heat around the house very well. We live in MN, so I assume the finished part of the basement is insulated well. The walls seem fairly warm in the winter-definitely not as cold as the outside.We use the basement daily so it would be nice not to have to use a space heater anymore. As for the furnace, we had that replaced 2 yrs ago with a Bryant 90i-very efficient and supplementing with a Carrier heat pump. The fan motor runs on DC and is always on moving air around the house. The ceilings in the basement are 6 1/2 -7 ' tall. The heat ducts are in the ceiling and not down at the floor-which is why it's hard to keep it warm with the furnace. I'll try to post a not to scale floor plan.
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