Good morning good folks - longtime lurker and second time poster here.
We had our Jotul F400 for a while now and used it occasionnally. I am using the borderline outside temparatures right now, to figure out some operational stuff and whilst doing it I have a couple of questions:
1) Castine specific: Inside the box there is a horizontal line and what I assume is Scandinavian writing for maxium firewood. I looked in the manual but nowhere in it says how high and low you should have logs in the stove. Does anyone have more information?
2) I have tried yesterday to put two logs in before I went to bed and see how easy it is to restart the fire. Worked pretty well, so no problem here. Now I had turned the airflow down at night (not all the way down but a good 2/3 to 3/4) to maximise burning time. coming down this morning the stove glass was all black. Now I know if you burn too low you produce more creosete and my general understanding is that this is not good. Am I approaching it wrong? Do I need to do something different overnight?
3)Heat distribution in the house (meaning first floor) - bear wit me please I will try and explain the set up as good as I can - I have a 250 year old Cape. The set up I believe is fairly traditional for this type of house, meaning a central chimney stack with three fireplaces. We have the Jotul in what used to be the kitchen and two rooms off that forming 2 sides of a rectangle (hope you are still with me) - the remaining side of the rectangle is the entrance door/hallway and stairs leading up. Off from what used to be the kitchen is today's kitchen.
Now i was hoping to use the wood stove to do the majority of the heating downstairs. room with the stove is smaller compared to the left which is the living room which is fairly sizable. I have bought door fans (as an interim measure) and intend to put in some wall fans on the floor for next year. Given the information that you have do you think it is realistic to heat downstairs wth what i have? Do you need more information. My wife keeps talking about buying a second stove for the other side (non living room side (which is a library/play room for the kids)? If I didn't make sense I apologize!
Thanks for bearing with me and for your knowledgeable answers!
Ollie
We had our Jotul F400 for a while now and used it occasionnally. I am using the borderline outside temparatures right now, to figure out some operational stuff and whilst doing it I have a couple of questions:
1) Castine specific: Inside the box there is a horizontal line and what I assume is Scandinavian writing for maxium firewood. I looked in the manual but nowhere in it says how high and low you should have logs in the stove. Does anyone have more information?
2) I have tried yesterday to put two logs in before I went to bed and see how easy it is to restart the fire. Worked pretty well, so no problem here. Now I had turned the airflow down at night (not all the way down but a good 2/3 to 3/4) to maximise burning time. coming down this morning the stove glass was all black. Now I know if you burn too low you produce more creosete and my general understanding is that this is not good. Am I approaching it wrong? Do I need to do something different overnight?
3)Heat distribution in the house (meaning first floor) - bear wit me please I will try and explain the set up as good as I can - I have a 250 year old Cape. The set up I believe is fairly traditional for this type of house, meaning a central chimney stack with three fireplaces. We have the Jotul in what used to be the kitchen and two rooms off that forming 2 sides of a rectangle (hope you are still with me) - the remaining side of the rectangle is the entrance door/hallway and stairs leading up. Off from what used to be the kitchen is today's kitchen.
Now i was hoping to use the wood stove to do the majority of the heating downstairs. room with the stove is smaller compared to the left which is the living room which is fairly sizable. I have bought door fans (as an interim measure) and intend to put in some wall fans on the floor for next year. Given the information that you have do you think it is realistic to heat downstairs wth what i have? Do you need more information. My wife keeps talking about buying a second stove for the other side (non living room side (which is a library/play room for the kids)? If I didn't make sense I apologize!
Thanks for bearing with me and for your knowledgeable answers!
Ollie