How Hot Does It Get In The Basement?

[velvetfoot]

I wouldn't want to heat the basement unless I wanted to. How how does it get down there with a boiler and storage and no intentional heating going on? My oil boiler has been cold so much over the past years that I don't even have that to go by, but there's no storage anyway now.

 

[maple1]

Not very. I usually crack one end of my storage enclosure open a little bit to get some heat down there, about late November. If I don't, it's colder than when I had my wood/oil boiler down there - it was going all the time, this one only 6-12hrs a day max. If you box in your storage with a door type thing on one end - you can make it as cool or as warm as you want down there. Storage tanks make great radiators - if you want them to be. Insulated storage doesn't shed much heat.

 

[peakbagger]

My basement tends to be around 60 degrees with the boiler offline. My storage is well insulated and I don't think it loses much heat to the surroundings. When I run the boiler for a few hours, the basement comes up to 70 plus degrees and the living room above it also warms up. I expect the majority of the heat is from the flue with some heat contributed by the surface area of the boiler plus heat loss through the insulated fittings.

 

[henfruit]

My unheated garage never gets below 60.The boiler is in it's own room with the storage.