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- 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
- 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
- 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
- No power to circulator pump | Hearth. com Forums Home
All while your house is wanting heat That is skewed some by the apparent fact that some of your zones somehow seem to be getting heat good without the pump running - not sure what's going on there Varmebaronen UB 40 with 660 gallons of pressurized storage - first fire 10 08 2012 (Replaces a Benjamin CC500 - history after 17 years )
- House layout | Hearth. com Forums Home
Example, house was 67 when I loaded for the night last night at midnite, put in 5 splits on a good coal bed, got it going, turned the air way down and the stove was cruising at about 600 Nice, right? Woke this am (7:30) to the stove having a few (enough for a relight) coals, and the stove at 200, house at 63 Outside temp was 15, with a little
- 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
- my stove pipe leaks smoke into my house - Hearth. com Forums
we just bought our home 3 years ago and every winter when we go to start a fire in our wood stove it leaks smoke from the bend, we clean our chimney quite often but it seems it gets clogged up quickly, the glass on the front goes completely black after a couple hours of burning, we are using
- Pyrolysis. . . and setting your house aflame - Hearth. com Forums
There was mention of a 60°C threshold in the name of avoiding pyrolysis, in another thread, which is about 140°F by my figuring Having been working on my boiler a bit this week, I notice it's set to run up to about 230°F when there's a call for heat That's internal boiler temperature, and
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