Wood stove in basement

[Nhbear79]

New to this so bare with me. I know putting a woodstove in the basement has been talked about many many times. Unfortunately I had little choice to put one on the first floor I needed to build a new chimney where the basement was already to go. So two questions need a blower for it and secondly the owners manual says three intial burns but doesn't say how long and how hot the burns need to be. The specs 1400 sq. Ft house two floors not including the basement unfinished stairs right next to stove and the stove is a new pacificenergy summit. Thanks for any help

 

[BrotherBart]

First burn take it up to 200 stovetop, let it cool down then take it up to 400 then next up to 500. With windows open. Then rock and roll.

 

[mol1jb]

Well first off welcome to the forums.

As speaking from experience, heating from an unfinished basement is difficult. It is tough to move the air upstairs but having a stairs close to the stove will help. From an insulation stand point, 1/3 of the heat the stove puts off will be lost through the walls and floor. My number one goal before next winter is to partially finish my basement (insulate walls, new windows). Heating in my unfinished basement this winter was a real challenge and I had the forced air furnace running quite a bit.

As for the blower, I find it helps quite a bit. I use the blower on my NC30 quite often.

 

[Nhbear79]

Thanks for the help. I appreciate the advice.

 

[Chuck the Canuck]

Welcome Nhbear. I've had great luck heating our house from the basement by setting a small fan at the top of the basement stairs blowing cool upstairs air down into the basement, which forces the nice warm basement air to flow naturally upstairs to the cooler space, thus warming it in the process. Of course I didn't come up with the idea myself, I learned it (and a whole lot more), after becoming addicted to the Hearth.com

 

[razerface]

Hi nhbear. You can do it. I heat 3200 sq ft from my basement. The stairway close to the stove is good! I even put a Dutch door at the top so I could leave the top open for heat transfer,, with the bottom closed to protect the small people who would ride their walkers right down the steps.

I also have various registers thru the house, and I built a door that opens to expose the class 3 chimney, which measures about 125-150 deg and heats my bedroom on the way out.

 

[Nhbear79]

Any thoughts on the stove I bought. PE summit or things I should look for?

 

[BrotherBart]

Any thoughts on the stove I bought. PE summit or things I should look for?

Ya bought one hell of a good wood stove. Look for being warm.

 

[Laurent Cyr]

Hi nhbear.

Apart from the wood stove, how do you heat your house?

My Jotul F-600 is in the basement. The basement is fuly finished/insulated. I`m able to heat my 3200 sq ft house with it, but had some difficulty getting the heat to rise. By shutting down the forced air furnace fan (which I left to help distribute the heat in the house), I`ve found that the convection was much better.

As for the blower, it dépends on the price. You might be better off buying a pedestal fan or two than getting the blower. For my stove, the blower is 310-350$. I got two pedestal fans at 25$ a piece.

Laurent