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- House layout | Hearth. com Forums Home
House size is about 1225 sq ft , and not well insulated (MAYBE r-11 in the attic), and I lose heat somewhat quickly I'll be working on the insulation The stove we have now is about 2 4 cu ft , and does a good job keeping the house warm, so I'm thinking a similar sized stove would fit the bill
- 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 enough heat to the main living floor to heat without
- Rainey’s home (homestead rescue) burns to the ground
That set up looks like what some anthracite burners make to keep as much heat as possible inside of the house , also many anthracite stoves are called * base burner* cause having long flue path under the firepot to keep the gases heat as long as possible inside of the house
- Clothes dryer heat recovery heat exchanger - Hearth. com Forums
This is a double win in that you get the free heat from both the hot air and heat of vaporization of the water, and you also keep the dryer from pulling cold outside air into the house that needs to be heated by your furnace You can check my numbers, but I get that a system like this could cut total clothes drying energy (electric and HVAC) by
- Lil House Outside wood furnace Anybody know about this?
On a 20F day the Lil'house would have to raise airtemp by 50F to do any good The Englander (or any inside furnace) only has to warm 60F basement air 10 degrees Final point - the Englander recirculates air in the house Lil'house forces air into the house with no cold air return I guess you have to leave a window open to equalize the pressure
- Firewood Pass-Thru Door Design | Hearth. com Forums Home
The good thing is we have a new blaze king now so I only need to make 1-2 trips a day for new wood My wife showed me a picture last week of a house with 2 little doors from the garage into the house, one was directly into the walk in pantry and the other was right next to the wood stove I'll post it if i can find it, it sparked my imagination lol
- my stove pipe leaks smoke into my house - Hearth. com Forums
Chimney needing cleaning often, blackened glass, smoke leaking at seam; first thoughts are stove being run too low, wet wood, poor draft or a combination of these
- Great Stuff spray foam OK in contact with copper hot water baseboard . . .
I have an addition on my house from the previous owners There is one section where the copper baseboard hot water pipes exit the building envelope and then poke through the addition floor Not the way I would have done it, but it's there nonetheless I found this out by noticing a big draft coming from this area in the main house (basement)
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