Hello I currently have a magnum corn\pellet furnace that I'm very disappointed in. It can barely keep the house at 61 degrees on a 35 degree day with no wind. I've fiddled around and tried all sorts of different variable and nothing changes plus that corn costs money even for a farmer like myself. Anyhow enough about that, my parents have a wood furnace in their basement and a similar sized house that they can keep a nice 76 no matter what the outside temp is. I know there are variations in insulation and house layout and that is fine.
So there is a little back story now to the questions. For next winter I want to put in a wood furnace to heat the house with. I have a brick chimney that goes up through the two stories of the house and is cut off in the attic. I'm wondering what my best option ( read safe and inexpensive) is. Can I put a liner in the chimney and connect it to some double wall pipe and then through the roof? Or would I be better off to run the exhaust outside and double wall all the way up the side of the house?
So there is a little back story now to the questions. For next winter I want to put in a wood furnace to heat the house with. I have a brick chimney that goes up through the two stories of the house and is cut off in the attic. I'm wondering what my best option ( read safe and inexpensive) is. Can I put a liner in the chimney and connect it to some double wall pipe and then through the roof? Or would I be better off to run the exhaust outside and double wall all the way up the side of the house?
