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- The heating of old houses | Hearth. com Forums Home
The oldest portion of the house was built in the 1850's and the large portion of the house was added on in 1906 The old portion of the house consists of what used to be the main house now our kitchen and a summer kitchen, both of witch have a thimble in the wall but the original chimneys have been torn down below the roof line and roofed over
- 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
- Tips on if Your pellet stove is burning lazy and or getting smoke in . . .
The last time I was at that house MY SELF for a full service about 3 years ago it had a wood stove cap on it We took it off and put on a wood stove cap and ran the stove Worked good 4 hours latter she calls doing it again I tell her to leave the stove on I go out there put a Magnahilic gage on it Poor pressure and little change with air
- Chimney Pipe Out and to the Side of the House?
What prevents you from going out the wall of a basement and out to the side of the house as opposed to up and through the roof? Is it literally the '2 feet higher than the highest point of the roof' requirement? What if you had like 20 feet of clearance between the pipe and the house- is it just a draft concern? View attachment 306747
- No power to circulator pump | Hearth. com Forums Home
So if you tie the burner pump together, the pump will stop every time the boiler gets up to temp If the 8148 aquatstat is faulty, I would replace it $130 on Supply House website But I would first make very sure it is faulty Part of a typical setup also is that there is a zone valve between the thermostat, and the aquatstat
- Installing indoor furnace outside under a shelter
Thanks I'm really considering putting the boiler or forced air under the house It's a crawl space, but it's about 4 foot high With a little digging, I can have pretty good spot to put an add-on furnace I already have a chimney from a previous wood stove that was in the house, so I can use the existing flu that's there
- 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
- mini split usage in 2-story home with small bedrooms on second floor
In your house, that'd be less likely to happen, unless you have a habit of leaving windows open while running AC There have been many drainage issues tied to minisplits, but usually any experienced installer is aware of these sortcomings, and then tend to be cautious in their drain line slope and planning
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