Quadra-Fire Classic Bay CB 1200 Basement Install with OAK

By now you might have installed a monkey driven auxiliary combustion fan an external one even.

 

Welcome to the forum 307Jake307 !!

Like some others here, I have been heating from an unfinished basement since 2009.

Yes the concrete acts as a heat sink but using a few well placed fans has helped a great deal. Primarily to move the cold air back down which helps move the heat up.

This being said, I am also running baseboard oil heat and depending on the cost differences is how I have heated in the past. Many of the early years has been 80/20 towards pellets with the stove burning 24/7 and oil monster only adding minor supplemental during the coldest stretches. Those years have been 4-5 ton pellets being burned. Lately with pellets costing as much as oil, it has flipped to 20/80 towards oil and burning maybe a ton or so.

I will likely burn yearly as its nice to have a warm basement (and it does make the 1st floor feel warmer even if using it less) but the average varies with prices as I also factor in the labor portion as a value especially as I get older.

Not sure if its been mentioned, but an unfinished basement can use about an extra ton of pellets due to heat loss but as jtakeman stated once its warm and not allowed to cool then that is mitigated to a point.

 

I am 4" all the way from the back of the stove to the termination cap

 

Looks like your evl inside is 13 +/- giving a tot of 23.5 +/- now me has a CB1200 manual on my huge disc drive but you should have one as well we have seen a lot of stoves over and using 3 inch exhausts. I believe you are using Excel piping which is highly rated. Be careful removing the clean out cap on that tee, take it from me it is easy to cut.

 

Yes, based on Figure 16.2 on page 16 of the owners manual for my elevation of 5,000 feet and EVL of 23 or 24 feet , 4" diameter pipe is recommended. And yes, it is Excel piping. Thanks for the warning about the cleanout cap on the tee!!

 

My stove was installed with Excel at the get go found out about the gasket the hard way. Other than Excel exhaust the stove was a bucket of bolts, it became a Franken stove.

 

Look you stove monkey we will ask for your opinion when it is called for now me has to read the fine manual for my new undelivered toy.