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I have a 1000 square foot log house. I jacked it up this fall and put in a basement and poured a floor as it only had a crawl space before which was a disaster. I have stone veneer/concrete 'stones' along the plywood sheathing above ice block forming basement walls. I used stone as the house is built of white cedar from BC and i knew the spruce siding around here would never match when stained. I was late putting up the vapor barrier but had batts up and when checking behind them noticed a sheet of ice on the sheathing and ice on the nails for the mortar vent. Then i found mold starting. 10 degrees Celsius down there with 68 - 80 % humidity. Obviously I need heat down there to dry everything up and eliminate the humidity.
Before I raised the house i heated the entire place with a blaze king ashford stove. It did pretty well but struggled to pump heat down the long house at deep cold - betwwn -10 and -25 Celsius. I have a 7" chimney for the stove. I have decided to put in a wood furnace in the basement with a vent or two in the living room, mud room, two bedrooms, and kitchen. Should also solve my basement troubles.
From what I've read here I shouldnt run my furnace through the same chimney that runs from my stove upstairs, through the wall 4 feet above it and out through the wall to the chimney. As such, it seems i'll need another chimney running out through either the cement knee wall or stone veneer.
As for wood furnaces, any recommendations? I need to get it in as soon as possible. I'd like as efficient as possible as I work 45 minutes from home and work 9 hour days outside of commute and would like to come home to at least coals.
I'm in Central Newfoundland Canada
I have a 1000 square foot log house. I jacked it up this fall and put in a basement and poured a floor as it only had a crawl space before which was a disaster. I have stone veneer/concrete 'stones' along the plywood sheathing above ice block forming basement walls. I used stone as the house is built of white cedar from BC and i knew the spruce siding around here would never match when stained. I was late putting up the vapor barrier but had batts up and when checking behind them noticed a sheet of ice on the sheathing and ice on the nails for the mortar vent. Then i found mold starting. 10 degrees Celsius down there with 68 - 80 % humidity. Obviously I need heat down there to dry everything up and eliminate the humidity.
Before I raised the house i heated the entire place with a blaze king ashford stove. It did pretty well but struggled to pump heat down the long house at deep cold - betwwn -10 and -25 Celsius. I have a 7" chimney for the stove. I have decided to put in a wood furnace in the basement with a vent or two in the living room, mud room, two bedrooms, and kitchen. Should also solve my basement troubles.
From what I've read here I shouldnt run my furnace through the same chimney that runs from my stove upstairs, through the wall 4 feet above it and out through the wall to the chimney. As such, it seems i'll need another chimney running out through either the cement knee wall or stone veneer.
As for wood furnaces, any recommendations? I need to get it in as soon as possible. I'd like as efficient as possible as I work 45 minutes from home and work 9 hour days outside of commute and would like to come home to at least coals.
I'm in Central Newfoundland Canada
