Thought I would shoot out a quick thread as to the location of everyone's stove along with the pro's & con's that you have experience with its current location. Happy or would you change its local? Mine is in my living room on the north wall of the house. Its a Jotul 600F series stove. Can heat about 2000sq ft. With the blower it blasts the heat just about everywhere. Put it in the Living Room because I wanted to enjoy the stove & fire as much as I could...
Mine is in the basement - at least the last time I checked! I like it there because it's directly under the living room and beside the tv room which is where I want the most heat.
Owb located in barn. It's nice putting the wood in there and not being in the elements while cleaning or loading the boiler Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
Clayton 1800g in basement hooked to existing ductwork in use for about 10 years as primary heat not the most efficient stove out there but does excellent job for my set up
TL300 in the center of finished walkout lower level. Drop ceiling with no insulation. Heating 1400sq ft up and 1000sq ft walkout.
Mine is in my (unfinished) basement as well. It's near my forced hot air oil furnace. I remove the blower access door during the winter and turn on the fan to circulate warm air. My basement door gets propped open a bit. It just works...
unfinished basement heats the floors above behind the stove the concrete and dirt acts as a heat sink with the basement door open it heats a room on the north side of the house There's also a grate above the stove in the kitchen The kitchen has two sets of double doors that can close and open to bleed off or contain excess heat
My house is 2 story with bedrooms and TV room upstairs. Living room, family room, kitchen, ect downstairs. House is roughly 60x30 and my stove is on the western most exterior wall downstairs. One room removed from a two story foyer. We have two furnaces, a natural gas upstairs and heat pump downstairs. The stove heats the downstairs completely and keeps the bedrooms 68-70 degrees. Occasionally I will bump the gas furnace on to raise the comfort level upstairs, especially in the mornings when the kids are getting ready for school. The proximity of the stove to the stairs really helps disperse heat throughout the house. We heat 3400 sq feet and our electric and gas bills combined are around $250/month. We were roughly $600/month the first winter when I couldn't burn much because I had green wood. We burn around 3 cord/year.
Stove is in finished basement. Two 8" ducts run from above the stove to the furnace cold air return so warm air is circulated thru out the house via furnace fan. It'd heat better in a more open room or on the main floor, but it makes a awesome place to gather Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's right here in the living room where the fireplace use to be. It's a Buck 80 catalyst insert. It's all we heat with. It's just the 2 of us and we never use the down stairs so the 80 keeps the upstairs a nice 76° no matter what the weather outside may be.
My CDW is in the living room along the north east wall. The house is a 1750sq ft ranch, open design. The bedrooms are at the opposite end of the house, which is good. Me and the Mrs, both like the bedroom temps on the cool side. The living room is 18x25, with a cathedral ceiling and a ceiling fan. On real cold days, I turn on a small muffin fan, in the upper corner of the opening to the adjacent room. This helps to move the heated air back deeper into the house. We also use a small cold air humidifier during the heating season.
Just like The Wood Wolverine and billb3, ours is in the unfinished basement... Wouldn't have it any other way- heats the whole (small) home easily.
I have 2 inserts in the old fireplaces. One is an ultimate supreme 17 in the lounge room and an ultimate supreme 10 in the kitchen. Either stove can heat the house on its own so it's rare that I have both going at the same time. It,s good if we come home to a cold house I will light both to heat the house quickly then only reload one of them for the overnight burn and let one go out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Oddball location. I have an open plan floor plan with a stairway to the basement being all that separates the kitchen area from the living room/dining room area. Located where I have it with its back to the stairway it is open to the kitchen and living/dining but is really set up to be central in an open area. I have no idea if it will work out right because I am still not moved in. This shows the back of the stairway wall with tiles applied and the tiled hearth in place. Picture was taken while standing in the dining area. Floorplan Had to make up my own plan to get everything laid out the way I wanted it. Standard plans just don't come out that way.
Stove is on south wall in living room as this is the most convenient for the stove. As you can see in the picture we have a small wood rack on the porch and access via a sliding glass door so it is only a couple steps to get wood when the stove gets hungry. In this picture my wife was making either applesauce or apple butter. Our previous stove was also located there but at that time we did not have the sliding door there so came in from another direction. Also then we used to burn at least twice the amount of wood that we do now as the Fireview stove has been terrific. We used to always be cold in winter but now keep our house around 80 degrees all winter long and love it! If wife has too much clothing on, we put another log on the fire. My little redhead also like to dry our laundry near the stove and you can tell we keep it warm for her (and for me)!
Fireplace in finished basement house my pacific energy insert. 2200sf raised ranch heat goes right up the stairwell. Usually around 66-70 degrees. It is my main heat source. All electric house no oil, no natural gas. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm fairly confident it will be OK for the public areas but not too sure the heat will reach to the bedrooms. They are sort of isolated from the location. The walls in the living/dining area that form a hallway are just 3 feet tall to suggest a traffic path and keep the walkway out of the actual living areas. They do not prevent free air circulation.
