Still cold with Englander 28-3500!

[mustang13]

We bought our stove last Winter and still haven't figured it all out. Our house was built in 1918, 2,300 sq ft, cement walls & no insulation. We have the Englander 28-3500 hooked up through our furnace & we struggle to get our house to 60 degrees. What the heck are we doing wrong?? Or does insulation play that big of a part in our house being freezing? Our temps are currently below 0 and -30 with the wind. We have a baby so we are using a kerosene heater, an Eden pure & having our gas turned back on just to supplement. We were trying to avoid our $300/mo gas bills with the wood burner but we haven't had any success! Help!

 

[maple1]

It is not big enough for your heat loss/load. 2300 sq.ft. with no insulation will be very hard to heat no matter how you try to do it.

 

[mustang13]

It is not big enough for your heat loss/load. 2300 sq.ft. with no insulation will be very hard to heat no matter how you try to do it.

That's what we were afraid of! Our house is cement block so this spring/summer we will be insulating our house & putting siding over the block.

Another question.. What temperature should our blower be set on? Ours runs non stop.

 

[maple1]

I'll have to defer to someone who actually owns one.

But whatever heat it does put out should be helping to reduce your fossil fuel use - small comfort?

 

[harttj]

$300 per month seems pretty reasonable to me. Especially since the house isn't insulated.

Pretty long payback on the furnace plus all the extra work and tools.

 

[Fred61]

You wouldn't be the first to try to keep an old drafty uninsulated house warm by blasting it with heat. The process should be the opposite. insulation and weatherization should come first and then heat the space. Trying to heat your house and all the acreage around it usually doesn't work.