What size stove

[damifino]

I have a 1100 square ft. ranch style house with a full basement. I will be putting a wood burner on one side of the basement and adding a few extra heat grates in floor to help heat rise to main floor. What can I expect from a wood burner that is rated for 1000 sq. ft. and 30,000 btu ? I don't expect every room to be toasty but I am hopeing it makes a big difference. I also have natural gas furnace.

 

[leon]

base burners

I have a 1100 square ft. ranch style house with a full basement. I will be putting a wood burner on one side of the basement and adding a few extra heat grates in floor to help heat rise to main floor. What can I expect from a wood burner that is rated for 1000 sq. ft. and 30,000 btu ? I don't expect every room to be toasty but I am hopeing it makes a big difference. I also have natural gas furnace.

IMO Look forward to a lot of smoke going through the floor grates. My next question is if you have glue laminated joists -if so i would seriously consider have an outdoor boiler for that reason alone.

:notrolls2: :greenchainsaw:

 

[PA Plumber]

If you circulate the fan on the furnace, I would think you could keep the whole house toasty warm.

We have a Pacific Energy Summit heating two floors and over 3000 sq. feet (including a finished basement). We can keep the whole house toasty warm all the way down into the low 20's.

We have extra returns cut in the basement and just turn on the fan at night.

We used 41 gallons of fuel oil last year to supplement the wood stove.

 

[Billy_Bob]

If you get a big woodstove with plenty of room inside, you can put all sorts of different sizes of wood in there including long pieces and big around pieces.

This comes in quite handy when cutting up logs. The last cut on the log may be a bit long, but if you have a big woodstove, no problem. Otherwise you would need to make an additional cut to make two smaller pieces. So I have a lot of flexibility when cutting up and splitting firewood (due to the large size of my woodstove).

Also you can build a small fire, a medium fire, or a large fire in a big woodstove.

But you can only build a small fire in a small woodstove. Then once the fire is going, there is no more room to add more wood!

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Go bigger!

You won't be sorry.

Yes, but if you go TOO much bigger, you'll have to run the stove choked down all the time and you'll have a lot of creosote. A stove rated for, say, 1500 square feet might be fine, but one for 2000 will likely be too much.

Since it's supplemental heat, you can afford to stay on the small side.

Though if it were me, I'd be planning to make the gas furnace my backup. Set the thermostat to 50 or so, and let the wood stove do the rest. That way you only burn gas when the fire dies.


I'm generally a fan of overkill when it comes to tools, but heating & A/C is one place where it pays to have the Goldilocks size, not too big or too small, but just right.

 

[Locoweed]

You would not have to choke down the stove. Just build a smaller fire.

 

[BlueRidgeMark]

Which then dies out very soon, and doesn't keep you warm overnight.

Nope, ain't that easy.

 

[CharlieG]

I went bigger for the same reasons, in addition to longer burning times.

 

[bore_pig]

You say 1100 sq ft plus full basement. Does that mean 2200 sq ft? My house is 2400 sq ft when I count both levels. I bought a stove rated for 90000 btu/2700 sq ft. I installed a blower. Any less of a stove would not have heated my house.

 

[046]

+1

Go bigger!

You won't be sorry.

 

[Wirenut2266]

Leon: What you talkin about? I don't understand why laminated joice, truss system, or old school 2x material would matter for flooring. Are you thinking about drying out glue or somethin???? I'm dumb, not stupid??:deadhorse:

 

[Wood Doctor]

You say 1100 sq ft plus full basement. Does that mean 2200 sq ft? My house is 2400 sq ft when I count both levels. I bought a stove rated for 90000 btu/2700 sq ft. I installed a blower. Any less of a stove would not have heated my house.

+1! The basement takes care of any worries that the stove is too big. Bore Pig and TreeCo know what they are talking about. 'Nuff said.

 

[damifino]

Thank you... I appreciate everybodys input.