Was wondering if placing a woodstove in the basement wood supply. Anyone watch homestead rescue raneys ranch on discovery channel If you are getting smoke in the house or you stove just don’t seem to be burning like should
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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. 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. 78 yo house, 2 ft thick uninsulated masonry walls, full daylight basement with walkin on north side (bummer), massive concrete foundation with basement stairs, laundry room floor, and two porches all poured along with the foundation The front of the house faces south, but the south.
Our wood is piled a good distance from the house and buildings
We have a carport and in front of the car is a porch that leads into the house It is now time for me to build a stack of wood next to the porch (actually i have a small pile now but the big pile is yet to come). 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. My house is approx 2200 sq feet of livable space with the unfinished basement adding another 500 sq feet What size stove might i need
Do any of you have one installed in the basement
Do you think a pellet stove will put out enough heat to help me I really do not have a spot to install it on the main level of the house. In general an effective way to move the heat is to push air down low, from the cooler parts of the house, into the stove room In some cases this can be as simple as placing a small fan on the floor in an adjacent room and blowing cooler air into the room
Do a search on moving heat in this forum and many threads should come up. You can try bracing it to the house by attaching steel brackets of some sort to the chimney and structure of the house to buy you a year, maybe, but even then i wouldnt want a couple 2x4's to hold up thousands of pounds of brick and masonry Is there just that one flue in the chimney?
