My Pacific Energy Super 27 sits idle right where I use to burn it. I left it there for back up after I installed the Wood Gun. We haven't needed it yet. Only time we would is if the power went out for a super long time. As we have a generator that will run the well pump and the wood boiler or oil boiler. I really miss being able to see the fire through the glass door. I keep saying I'm going to move it up stairs or somewhere we can enjoy it. Maybe enclose part of the big covered porch and have it out there to enjoy for family get togethers. We have quite a few of those every year. But that will cost some dough, and I've spent enough of that on the wife's horse barn! Maybe back to camp if we can get it in the right spot. We'll see. Anywho. You can see the Wood Gun boiler is in the basement and heats the entire house, attached garage, and all of our domestic hot water(DHW) for showers, dishes, etc. It has been doing a fine job of it. This is the sixth heating season for it. Time flies when your havin fun! Ya. I need to clean things, again.
I'm the living room right of the laundry room. Right outside that is the garage where I keep the wood dry. Heats our 1600 sq feet nicely with the exception of the basement. I'm working on a plan for that.
Is that stove really 24 inches off the floor ? the bottom row of tile can't be seen but the floor can and it looks like 2x 12x12. not crouching to load the stove must be nice.
"Hi. My name is Yooperdave and I'm a stove-aholic" The OWB is outside (of course) at 99 house along with a little kicker eps stove in the basement. At the lake, I have one in the cottage and one in the workshop. Both are epa. I have one more in the storage shed, non-epa fisher knock off that I just can't let go of...not hooked up. I also have a non-epa ice shack stove with a 3" vent on it for the shack/deer blind what have you. This site does nothing but enable me!
OK stove is in now living room south east corner (used to be attached garage) 20 x 20 ... house is a post and beam split level.. to completely get this I need to explain house.. easiest way is back half is a 20 x 40 colonial (2 story above a 3/4 finished walk out basement) front half is 20 x 20 .. 2 story with raised ranch style stairs.. I call basement floor 1, living room 2 (stove) 3rd floor kitchen foyer dining 2 small bedroom, 4th floor mbr and 5th floor office and another bedroom... is that confusing enough? so living room has 2 exterior doors and 5 windows the size of doors... plus the 6 foot wide stairwell which acts like my cold air return.. did I forget to mention floors 3 4 and 5 have 16 foot ceilings... So how's it work.. living room sits at 80 the kitchen (floor 3) about 72 and bedrooms about 65 to 67 or perfect for me! surprising part is basement 40 feet from stove and 5 feet lower stays about 60.. I do have oil back up.. radiators and dhw.. in no heat on months 100 gallons heating oil lasts 4 months.... with heat on (dec Jan and feb) uses 100 gallons for heat and hot water I think this is awesome and absolutely love my IS! and it's placement! Just so you know before Woodstove in LR no one used it because it was too cold 16 feet of baseboard did not heat it! 400 square feet with previous mentioned windows now we live in it!
It is 16" (we cut that one row of tile to 4") and you are right, it surely makes it easier to load the stove. I always sit on a chair to do that.
Blaze King princess insert 1500 square foot house Stove is in the living room which is open completely to the kitchen, dining room and formal/den. All the bedrooms and baths are down the hall with a small Vornado blowing cold air to the stove room. Coldest night we've had with the stove is negative 7.
The dog laying on the bear is priceless, not sure how that rug would go over in this house. Stove is in the unfinished but insulated basement, keeps the mess out of the living area. I have half of the basement blocked off in the winter with a temporary wall of foam panels, heating two floors of an 28 x 40 colonial, the door to the basement is left open for the heat to come up.
Raised ranch and the Buck 91 cat stove is in the finished walkout basement on the west end. Very open stair well. We have NG hot water heat as well with 2 zones. Below 20º the zone on the east end has to run some, I keep the therm at 68º back there.
Corner install between kitchen and living room open concept; trailer, woodstove is on same side as hall so heat follows the hallway down and does well, only use fans if it gets real cold...
Lopi 1750i inserted in the fireplace in the south end of our 1100 sf ranch with full basement. It is in the living room opening to the dining area and works great keep around 70-73 and around 68-70 in the north end where the bedrooms are. The basement is a bit chilly but nothing a sweatshirt won't fix. Only thing I wish for is 1, to have a gorgeous free standing set up like a bunch of you guys and 2, a second stove or a indoor wood furnace to replace the propane furnace we currently have.
My stove is downstairs in my 3 story ranch. My kids room are located above the stove room. Their floors feel like it's radiant floor heating. The rest of the house gets the heat from my ceiling fans in each room. I have a jotul F55 that heats about 2500 sq ft and my house is 2000 sq ft...
Only pellets and wood here, no kind of gas. Pellet furnace replaced woodstove in living room. Pro, hot and fast heat on demand. Con, blower competes with tv volume. We could move it and duct it inside but it gets wicked cold here, better in the living room, easier to run the manual thermostat and we get the radiant heat too. Pro, no bark and such to clean up from bringing in so many cords per year. Old woodstove in other part of house. Pro, we still have heat during power outages, Con, not in the room we use most the time and the cinder-block walls of that part of the house take a long time to heat up. Another pro, old woodstove sticks out infront of the 1952 fireplace just enough that it will cook the old campfire perk for coffee when power is out .
We have a raised racnch and the stove is in the basement and it heats the house great without a fan or grates in the floor.
I installed mine on the Southwest wall in the living room for 2 reasons. First, that is the direction of the prevailing winds, and secondly it was where a propane stove, which I gave away, was tied into the brick chimney with a Class B pipe. Had the chimney been on the other side of the house, I would still have my wood stove on the SE wall. Sorry, old picture of poor quality, but the setup is still basically the same. The brass trim at the top was at an angle and has been corrected. Esthetics you know! And before anyone gets their panties in a bundle, the stove does have heat shields on both sides. When the stove is running at 500 degrees (STT) the sides of the stove temperature reaches about 190 degrees near the top. In the middle, I can keep my hand there without it getting burnt. Of course the higher the stove top temperature, the higher the temperature will be on the heat shields. So even if a split would manage to slip out of the rack and come into contact with the sides, the chances of it starting a fire is slim to none. Put a split on top of the stove, and I assure you, you will have a fire or at least a piece of wood that could start one with very little effort. And yes, I do monitor the heat shield temperature as a just in case. I also try to keep my fires within the 500 to 525 STT range but no more than 625 degrees. And a quick FYI, wood ignites at 356 degrees Fahrenheit. As for any sparking from the stove igniting the stacks along side, it would have to be one strange spark to be thrown from the stove and then find its way back a foot just to come in contact with the rack. Since it generally takes me about 15 minutes tops from a cold start to a 500 degree fire, I do sit there on a steel folding chair monitoring the fire until the door is completely closed. However, in the event there may be a fire, there is a fire extinguisher (not shown) close enough for me to reach. If I wake up to a cold house, and I can hardly keep my eyes open, I'll just pull the blankets up and go back to sleep. That means I will be wide awake when I am doing anything with the stove. Not falling asleep in the chair waiting for the fire to take off. So none of this "it's not safe" "your going to burn your house down" etc. Heck, if I listened to quite a few here, I'd have all my wood stacked 100 or more feet from the house and only bring in a few splits at a time after I loaded them up with bug spray. Sorry, I put a lot of thought into the layout and it's safety. Even with the use of the wood in each stack. I alternate so that the one rack I'm using allows the one not in use to dry even more. Once the first rack is empty, I'll reload it and use the wood in the 2nd rack and alternate throughout the heating season. At the end of the season, the wood already in the racks will remain until the following season. And I may top off the stacks just because. I don't use the fan attached to the stove, but if I do need to raise the temperature of the bedrooms, I have 4 computer fans wired to a 12 volt power supply attached to the bottom of the door frame to one bedroom that blows the cool more dense air out. Since I rarely need it, I just unplug the power supply. That setup also works well during the summer months as a window fan. Okay, so that's the whys and wherefores of my setup.
