How many square feet

[devinsdad]

just under 1500 ...with 8 more windows to replace

 

[Lumber-Jack]

1510 sq. ft.
Heating with a Regency F2400 wood stove (rated for 2200 sq. ft), perfectly oversized, no problem keeping the whole place warm.

 

[k9brain]

~1300 sf with vaulted ceilings. Stove needs help when the outside temp is less than 20.

 

[afptl]

1300 square feet pretty well insulated

 

[HotCoals]

~1900. 900 where the wood stove is in the basement, 1000 upstairs.

pen

I gota ask..how did you lose 100sq.ft. in the basement or gain 100 upstairs?

 

[BrowningBAR]

~1900. 900 where the wood stove is in the basement, 1000 upstairs.

pen

I gota ask..how did you lose 100sq.ft. in the basement or gain 100 upstairs?

Black hole is located in the basement. Each year the basement gets smaller by 10%.

 

[iceisasolid]

1787 2 level, about 1100 upstairs

 

[andrewdee]

One thing that makes me wonder, is why do they rate stoves in "square feet heated",
I don't know many people that live in a 2 dimensional houses. ;-)

Because most people don't know how many cubic feet their houses are. :lol:

BTW, ours is ~15,500 cubic feet.

It takes 172 cords to fill my house!

 

[pastera]

3700

Pellet stove heats the 650 ft^2 family room over garage - it will hit 80°+ if the kids crank the thermostat even in the worst SeMass weather

Insert heats the rest of the house enough to keep the boiler idle but needs to be fed every two hours - but I expected that with a 1.4cf firebox

Aaron

 

[WhitePine]

2,000.

 

[pyper]

Around 1700. It's a really poor design for a single stove.

The new house is about 1600 SF on the main floor and an equally sized basement. I'm planning on finishing the other half of the basement and putting either a stove or an insert down there and a gas insert upstairs.

Do two people actually need 3200 sf? Probably not.

 

[Kenster]

Our VC Vigilant sits in our large "Great Room" with a Cathedral ceiling and two open, upstairs lofts. Total sq footage of the house is about 4000 sf but about 700 sf is our Sun room which has a separate heating/ AC unit from the rest of the house and we usually keep it closed off when we are burning the wood stove. So, about 3300 SF is heated with wood. It keeps it around 72 in the main area of the first floor, upper 70s (sometimes more) upstairs in the lofts and mid to lower 60s at night back in the master bedroom, which is the way we like it. If we open up the Sun Room to be heated by the wood stove, the average temp downstairs will be about 68. Really not too bad. We like things on the cool side and can always throw on a sweater if we need to. We put in two new 4.5 ton heat pumps when we moved in five years ago and have rarely ever turned them on for heat.

 

[lukem]

1500 sq feet of poorly insulated basement and 1600 square feet of moderately insulated living space above it. Eight foot ceilings. 90% wood heat.

 

[Adios Pantalones]

~1600

 

[MF1529]

1700 sqft with a Hearthstone Mansfield.

 

[bsticks]

In the basement which is 950 sq ft, the first floor which is 1,150 sq ft, and the second floor which is 890 sq ft. Total of 2,040 sq ft from a basement only stove.

 

[firefighterjake]

1,800 square feet . . . 1970s vintage two-story Cape . . . with added insulation and mostly newer windows . . . heating 24/7 with a Jotul Oslo . . . hot water baseboard oil heat as back up with the thermostats set to kick on the boiler at 60 degrees F . . . and an electric space heater that kicks on at 60 degrees F in the boiler room/bathroom (simply to make sure the boiler's oil doesn't jell up and the water lines furthest away from the woodstove do not freeze.)

 

[shawneyboy]

If I remember correctly I have 1878 square raised ranch, about 90% heating with wood. I have oil fired baseboard that is the other 10 %. Meaning the oil fired is my back up on the brutal cold nights.

Shawn

 

[JimmyCinSC]

We are heating 2,700 sq ft two story house with a High Valley 2500. Heats the house very well with the exception of a room built over the garage on the far end of the house. If running 24/7 even that room comes up to temperature eventually.