Ok - I'm very happy with my wood stove upstairs. It takes care of the top two floors.
However the basement that is 1/2 finished (we did an addition and added a new, now unfinished basement about 2 years ago) is not getting any heat anymore as we have stopped using our oil heating. I'd like to start using this space again - I had made it into an office space originally, not it is (cold) storage space.
Got a quote to run a loop off the oil burner to heat it that, well, was a lot of money. Electric would be ok if we weren't paying $.18 /Kwh. Although perhaps that will end up being the solution. Another wood stove might be nice, but I don't wish to pay for or install another full SS chimney up the outside of the house.
So - I have about 300 sqft of currently finished space, and 450 of unfinished (that I hope to finish in the next couple years). The spaces are connected by a single door so I'll have a challenge getting heat to flow between, but that is something I think I can manage by adding holes when I finish the space perhaps. (old exterior wall.. ).
I know very little about pellet stoves. What sort of footprint do they require (clearances etc?), is there a model that would likely heat this kind of space well enough? Should I forget it and just go electric?
However the basement that is 1/2 finished (we did an addition and added a new, now unfinished basement about 2 years ago) is not getting any heat anymore as we have stopped using our oil heating. I'd like to start using this space again - I had made it into an office space originally, not it is (cold) storage space.
Got a quote to run a loop off the oil burner to heat it that, well, was a lot of money. Electric would be ok if we weren't paying $.18 /Kwh. Although perhaps that will end up being the solution. Another wood stove might be nice, but I don't wish to pay for or install another full SS chimney up the outside of the house.
So - I have about 300 sqft of currently finished space, and 450 of unfinished (that I hope to finish in the next couple years). The spaces are connected by a single door so I'll have a challenge getting heat to flow between, but that is something I think I can manage by adding holes when I finish the space perhaps. (old exterior wall.. ).
I know very little about pellet stoves. What sort of footprint do they require (clearances etc?), is there a model that would likely heat this kind of space well enough? Should I forget it and just go electric?
