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- heating entire house from basement | Hearth. com Forums Home
we are looking at buying a house that has a stone fireplace in the living room and a place in the basement to connect a woodstove, the house is 1456 sq ft on one floor and the basement is same sq footage and completely open was wondering if placing a woodstove in the basement wood supply
- Tips on if Your pellet stove is burning lazy and or getting smoke in . . .
If you are getting smoke in the house or you stove just don’t seem to be burning like should Check the door seal and latch for a tight fit Check the ash pan for shut tight and latched If all doors seals are good and latched MOST pellet stove are Negative air (Inside of the Firebox is
- How high should I run my stove pipe inside? - Hearth. com Forums
Hello, I am new to the forum Lurking for a while now I joined to ask if, in a through the wall installation, should I run my stove pipe up as high as possible before going through the wall? If I terminated at the minimum distance, I would have over 15' of chimney up the side of my house and
- The heating of old houses | Hearth. com Forums Home
I've seen mention of many "old drafty farm house(s)" this week, which has piqued my interest Looking around this old joint, built around 1773, I see one chimney thimble in the basement (walk-out, and likely part of some earlier structure), two on the first floor, and two on the second floor
- Please advise! Neighbours wood smoke blowing into my home
The stack was lower than my house and it would set off a smoke detector in my attic The town elected to work with him and after he put in a 30' extension on his stack it became far less of an issue Obviously making your home tighter will reduce the smoke getting inside If you have a chimney and are not using it, that is logical thing to seal
- Pellet stove blowing smoke into house - Hearth. com Forums
I have been having an issue with my newly installed Harman P35I insert, it is blowing smoke into the house at times I have had the dealer come out and they replaced the gasket that attaches the exhaust from the stove to the mounting frame thing Just recently, I noticed that when the
- recommendations for interior or exterior chimney? - Hearth. com Forums
The advantages of having an interior chimney are many Look at the house of yore when people didn't have central heating You won't find many exterior chimneys there The advantages are: better draft, less cooling of flue gas equalling less creosote, far less heat loss to outdoors and most of it instead radiated to the interior of the house and less deterioration due to weather
- Installing indoor furnace outside under a shelter
The idea was if the wood furnace heated the house the thermostat wouldn"t need to kick on for the propane furnace Contractor says afraid to put wood furnace in an attached room because worried heat will have nowhere to escape??? Is there something wrong with my thinking here?
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