I have a 6041 pellet stove im putting in my basement. The way I have to hook up the exhaust its going to take more pipe then recomended. Has anyone ever done this? Here is a drawling of my setup. What are your thoughts
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Hate to tell you this, but that is going to be a nightmare. Your EVL is at least 26......WAY above acceptable limits even if you used 4" pipe. Ash will be collecting in that long horizontal section almost immediately, and eventually it will choke the stove.
Why are you putting the stove in the basement?
Why are you putting the stove in the basement?
For additional heat. I bought the stove last year and wasnt very thrilled with it. I ended up refinishing and insulating my basement and was hoping it would work better.
Was it upstairs before?
If you meant to just heat the basement after finishing it, that might have been OK, but that exhaust is going to make the stove run SOOOO much worse than it was before.
You'd be better off selling it on CL or something like that and buying a better quality stove.
If you meant to just heat the basement after finishing it, that might have been OK, but that exhaust is going to make the stove run SOOOO much worse than it was before.
You'd be better off selling it on CL or something like that and buying a better quality stove.
I always had it in the basement. I just want to run it on the really cold days to help my furnace out so it doesnt have to run super hard.Do you think that it will work for that?
Well I already have a hole in my wall so im going to give it a shot. Im not going to use it that much and if I have to blow the ash out of the pipe once a week and it works i will. I really have no other options. My old set up was 5' up and 1' out the wall. One thing I did do was drilled four little holes in the freeze plug looking cap where the intake hose hooks up like the directions say to. I must have over looked that in the directions. So im hoping thats helps.
Originally i didnt have the flex hose hooked up or the holes drilled, but now they are. Is my biggest problem with my pipe set up going to be ash build up? Im planning on finishing the install this weekened. Do they make any kind of fan i could put outside on the end of the pipe to help draw some of the ash out? Any other ideas? Thanks for all the help so far!
What is making the set up a safety concern? I have used the privided through the wall kit and all the other pipe is in a block garage on the backside of my finished basement then it exits through a block wall. Besides the ash build up what makes it unsafe? I would think the only problem i would have would be if i had to much ash build up it would just choke out the flame and shut the stove down.
Ash build up and possible volatile combustion by product condensation in the venting due to the restriction of the exhaust gas flow in the horizontal run is one, the other is the possibly of items hitting the run and opening up a seam.
The first could result in a fire in the venting and the second in exhaust entering your house.
The first could result in a fire in the venting and the second in exhaust entering your house.
I have the same stove and asked the same question a few years ago i have a set up like this stove is in the basement vent goes up 5' to a horizontal with a 24 inch then up again for 30" i know it is not the recommended with 3 inch pipe but my set up works for me I clean the vent every week since i could not return the pipe for 4". Now since this setup works for me im not saying it will work in your case but since i do clean it with a sooteater every 2 weeks regardless of how many bags i run. and i blow out the pipe after i use the vent cleaner it is working great for me but you have to do alot more work than the other owners do. to me it is worth it since the vent is pricey and the pellets i burn are OHP and they are good for me and t]my stove. see the pic of they way mine is set up. like i said this works for me but is a lot of extra work if you dont mind cleaning the vent almost every week!!
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Well im hooking it up tomorrow so i hope it works. I will be keeping my eye on it and making sure its clean. Thanks for all the help!
12 feet is a long run i was nervous about my set up i would be very careful about this.is there any way to get the stove closer the the outside wall?
I cant get it any closer. It goes from a finished basement through the wall and up and over through a garage. It has been working good for two days now. The exhaust pipe is only warm to the touch. I made sure to put the 1/4 inch per foot rise on the horizontal run. I can feel the heat coming out of the exhaust. I see you have the same stove. What kind of temp rise do you get from it on setting one? My room is finished and is 63* with no heat. On setting one it goes to 68* max. Does that sound right? It seemed to make the room the same temperature before and after I insulated and finished it. I just thought it would heat it alot more now that the room is tight.
Did you insulate your basement ceiling?
Is the basement closed off from the upper parts of the house?
Describe what you mean by insulated?
Describe what you mean by tight?
Do you have an OAK installed?
Is the basement closed off from the upper parts of the house?
Describe what you mean by insulated?
Describe what you mean by tight?
Do you have an OAK installed?
By basement has insulated studded walls with drywall. My ceiling is a drop ceiling. I did not hook up my oak yet. I didnt want to punch another hole through my wall untill i fired it up and was feeling some heat. Does the kit make a big difference?
The OAK will stop some of the air you have already heated from going up the flue and cold air from being drawn into the basement from every crack in the envelope. What that will do in your case I can't answer but it won't hurt.
Your description indicates that it is likely there is no insulation in your basement ceiling.
You are going to have heat from the basement transfer into the upper floors through the ceiling. So some of the heat is going up. If your stove is sitting on concrete some of the heat is going to go into the concrete via conduction.
I don't know what firing rate #1 amounts to in pounds fed to the burn pot but if it follows a lot of stoves I'll call it 1 pound meaning about 8000 BTU/hr gross perhaps 6400 BTU/hr net if the stove is spotless.
Is there another heating system in the basement and is it running?
Your description indicates that it is likely there is no insulation in your basement ceiling.
You are going to have heat from the basement transfer into the upper floors through the ceiling. So some of the heat is going up. If your stove is sitting on concrete some of the heat is going to go into the concrete via conduction.
I don't know what firing rate #1 amounts to in pounds fed to the burn pot but if it follows a lot of stoves I'll call it 1 pound meaning about 8000 BTU/hr gross perhaps 6400 BTU/hr net if the stove is spotless.
Is there another heating system in the basement and is it running?
My main furnace is in the basement also. But all my regs are shut off so it only heats the upstairs. My pellet stove is still on the crate so its prob 6" off the floor. Im not sure off the btu/hr it puts out. The area in my basement im heating is 22'wx38'L
Your other heating system is also sucking air out of the basement unless it is OAKed and likely at a higher rate than the stove and if the stove isn't starved for air then you have quite a bit of air infiltration into your basement.
You have over 5600 cubic feet of air to heat and a good sized heat loss area and likely a good deal of infiltration.
Does your heating system have a powered exhaust or is it into a chimney?
My main furnace doesnt have a chimney. It is electric with an outside heat pump. My furnace intake is upstairs.
How long are you getting out of a bag of pellets on setting 3 Gary. My house is all electric and in the winter my electric bills for everything are arounf $200. I think on setting one I get a little over a day on a bag. So i figure $5 a bag x 30 days =$150 to keep just my basement barely warm. It just doesnt seem cost efficient to me, thus is why im not that excited about my stove as others.
Ok that removes that furnace from the equations, but you are still left with the rest.
You have to look at that basement from a heat loss standpoint, to raise the temperature you have to put more BTUs in than leave and the amount of BTUs leaving is a function of the temperature differences all the way around the area to be heated this plus the BTUs that exit the area via air turnover (infiltration).
I probably should reread the manual for your stove to discover what they say is the #1 firing rate.
You should take a look at heat loss calculator for a slab (two sided section your basement is comprised of 6 slabs and infiltration. Each slab will have a different outside temperature depending upon what is on the outside of the slab.
Your ceiling for example will have the first floor temperature as it's outside temperature (this may end up making it a net heat provider for the basement, I can't tell for certain without running the numbers), the walls and floor are likely to be heat losses during the heating season.
http://www.builditsolar.com/References/Calculators/HeatLoss/HeatLoss.htm is one that I use (normally a house gets described as a unit but it can be used to do just a single slab and then the slabs get summed to arrive at a total heat loss.
You have to look at that basement from a heat loss standpoint, to raise the temperature you have to put more BTUs in than leave and the amount of BTUs leaving is a function of the temperature differences all the way around the area to be heated this plus the BTUs that exit the area via air turnover (infiltration).
I probably should reread the manual for your stove to discover what they say is the #1 firing rate.
You should take a look at heat loss calculator for a slab (two sided section your basement is comprised of 6 slabs and infiltration. Each slab will have a different outside temperature depending upon what is on the outside of the slab.
Your ceiling for example will have the first floor temperature as it's outside temperature (this may end up making it a net heat provider for the basement, I can't tell for certain without running the numbers), the walls and floor are likely to be heat losses during the heating season.
http://www.builditsolar.com/References/Calculators/HeatLoss/HeatLoss.htm is one that I use (normally a house gets described as a unit but it can be used to do just a single slab and then the slabs get summed to arrive at a total heat loss.
What is your electric rate and what is the seer on your heat pumps and are they ground source units? It may not even pay for you to use anything else at this time.
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