Okay all,
Like most Newbie's to this and similar sites, I've been lurking around for a while and doing my best to learn from the obvious think-tank that exists here, however at the end of the day each persons situation and installation is slightly different and I am looking for some help around my specific wants/needs. So here is the situation:
We live on 5 acres in Brown County Indiana and moved here just 4 years ago. The home is a manufactured home (not mobile home) and is a two-story 2800sqft salt-box style home. The primary heating source is a new (1 year old) Carrier Infinity LP Furnace (wish I would have done a multi-fuel furnace instead of this but hindsight is always 20/20). As such, the LP is killing us each year and for the past 3 years I've told myself that I was going to purchase a pellet/corn stove in the spring/summer (due to lower costs in those months) yet each time I figure we got through last winter without it why go for it now.... Well once again it's beginning to be that time of year and we just need to breakdown and get one. Our typical monthly LP costs during the months of Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar run 400-450 per month (OUCH!) so I know that this thing will pay for itself very quickly. So what's my quagmire?
As noted above we're in a 2800sqft salt-box styled home, the only area that is open to both the first and second floors is our small entryway (where the stairs go to the 2nd floor), and is about 8'x10' (see attachment for full drawing of the layout) but there is no place right near this location to place the stove. In addition, since this is near the front of the house, we would prefer not to have the vent pipe running there but instead out the back of the house.
So based upon the square footage of the home the location of where we would desire to place the stove and the location of the only real method for getting the air to the 2nd floor (again see the attachment), what stove would you recommend. The reality is that there are so very many of them out there that I just don't know how to even begin to eliminate either manufacturers or models in order to get down to a respectable few that would meet our needs so that we can move forward with making our final decision.
As a side note, we would prefer one that will do multiple fuel sources (i.e. pellets, corn, cherry pits, etc, etc, etc)
Thanks in advance
WagarFamilyFarm.
Like most Newbie's to this and similar sites, I've been lurking around for a while and doing my best to learn from the obvious think-tank that exists here, however at the end of the day each persons situation and installation is slightly different and I am looking for some help around my specific wants/needs. So here is the situation:
We live on 5 acres in Brown County Indiana and moved here just 4 years ago. The home is a manufactured home (not mobile home) and is a two-story 2800sqft salt-box style home. The primary heating source is a new (1 year old) Carrier Infinity LP Furnace (wish I would have done a multi-fuel furnace instead of this but hindsight is always 20/20). As such, the LP is killing us each year and for the past 3 years I've told myself that I was going to purchase a pellet/corn stove in the spring/summer (due to lower costs in those months) yet each time I figure we got through last winter without it why go for it now.... Well once again it's beginning to be that time of year and we just need to breakdown and get one. Our typical monthly LP costs during the months of Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar run 400-450 per month (OUCH!) so I know that this thing will pay for itself very quickly. So what's my quagmire?
As noted above we're in a 2800sqft salt-box styled home, the only area that is open to both the first and second floors is our small entryway (where the stairs go to the 2nd floor), and is about 8'x10' (see attachment for full drawing of the layout) but there is no place right near this location to place the stove. In addition, since this is near the front of the house, we would prefer not to have the vent pipe running there but instead out the back of the house.
So based upon the square footage of the home the location of where we would desire to place the stove and the location of the only real method for getting the air to the 2nd floor (again see the attachment), what stove would you recommend. The reality is that there are so very many of them out there that I just don't know how to even begin to eliminate either manufacturers or models in order to get down to a respectable few that would meet our needs so that we can move forward with making our final decision.
As a side note, we would prefer one that will do multiple fuel sources (i.e. pellets, corn, cherry pits, etc, etc, etc)
Thanks in advance
WagarFamilyFarm.