Heating With Wood - How well does it work? | Vermont Bun Baker XL
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- Now that I have had a chance to heat the house through some cold weather, how well has it been working?
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The thing I REALLY like about out indoor wood stove is that you can still stay warm even if there is a power outage!
Ashes from wood are really good for your garden!
Grew up with wood heat. Teenage years spent in a house heated solely by wood. it was a two level home with a wood stove downstairs & fireplace upstairs. We primarily only used the stove. Out water was preheated by the stove in winter. As the oldest child it was my job to make sure the fire didn't go out @ night. Packing the stove tighter & reducing air flow to the firebox works great, but pay attention to the advice on leaving a good layer of ash in the stove. It helps the stove hold heat better, as opposed to sending the heat up the chimney, but it also enables you to bank the fire. A banked fire gets less oxygen & burns slower, making the fuel last longer. Any means to circulate the air (furnace fan, ceiling fans, or even a box fan) will help prevent cold spots. Now I'm 53, & I've also used propane, natural gas and electric, whole house furnace systems & space heaters. A wood stove is still my favorite preferred method!
The stones actually look good under your wood stove. dont worry about the negative comments if you and the family like it that is all that matters
Darrin Bree, I agree with you and support your comment 100% .
The stones around the stove are a nice touch.
I like the stones too! I moving soon and plan on doing the stones thing at the new place. Looks great and functions as a mass heater. I can't think of a better definition of WIN, WIN!
Guess you haven't caught your vacuum on fire yet.
@Mark OnTheBlueRidge It's on basement floor......meaning cement!!!! Listen. Perhaps cleaning the stones is not a big issue for this gentleman. The remaining floor maybe tile. I know of people who supplement their heating with wood for years and love it.
Wood is the best heat source it heats you 3 times when you gather it when you split it and when you burn it!!
I heated my house for 5 years with wood. My neighbor would say that to me once every year, he was right. With all the work, I felt like I was getting paid $3 an hour for hard labor.
@@tinybubbles3724 my best friend Hank sells propane and propane accessories and he would disagree with me he thinks propane is far more superior of a heat source..
A major problem with installing a wood stove in an existing house - such as a tri-level, is heat distribution. An ideal situation is to design your house for using a stove. Good news/bad news - when you get older you'll be getting up during the night to use the bathroom and you can feed the stove then.
Mr. Brunton! LOL! You're right! I'm 60 and in the wee hours as I head back to bed after a whizz I throw a extra couple of logs on the old Jotul!
Pfft. Just get a stash of oak logs 😉
True that! We always had a designated “nightstick”. It was a larger stick and slow burned all night. In our case, normally red oak. White oak doesn’t give as much heat, but lasted longer.
Hai proprio ragione, dove è installata la stufa di muore di caldo e nelle stanze adiacenti fa freddo...
I placed my stove in a basement and cut holes to the first floor in which I placed louvered vents. Works well!
Just going to get my new bun Baker XL in 2 weeks can't wait to get it so excited
Thank you for the update! We live near Ann Arbor and it has been COLD COLD COLD! Our Bun Baker XL has been cranking out the heat with our furnace kicking in to keep us at 62 degrees (usually fires only once over night). Like some of the other comments I get up to pee at 4am every night and toss a few extra logs on the red-hot coals.
The instructions from Nectre indicate a log size of about 10" so I've been cutting mixed stock - about 30% 10" logs and 70% at 16". This allows us to place three small pieces perpendicular to the door and then a few longer pieces across the top of those. This helps to get the thing going just for the first fire of the day. From then on this thing is burning HOT!
I built a wood rack just to the side and rear of the unit and got one of those heat-powered fans from Amazon aimed right at the stack of wood. I have two shelves which each hold about a day of wood. That little fan easily finishes drying out my cordwood in about 8 hours! This technique has helped our wood last a little longer, burn a little hotter, and keep the glass fire door nice and clean.
I'd love to send you a pic of the wood shelf if you are interested.
The fan I got is this one which turns on at 50 degrees C and enables it to spin at really low temps: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07438S8TY/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I actually bought two of them so that one can move some heat to our back bedrooms while the other dries out my firewood.
Anyway, thanks as always for sharing your journey! Keep these things coming!
I wish everybody pieced together a solid, straightforward explanation. It was personal without the unnecessary fluff or bravado. Thank you very much.
We had a Defiant Encore wood stove, much like yours, it heated our 2 story home in New York state perfectly. We averaged 6-7 cords of wood a year, it was alot of work cutting, splitting, moving and managing that much wood. One tip for getting a good night of burning is pay attention to the wood your handling during the day and put aside the really dense logs and the longest ones as well, those you save for the night burn.
Ron W.
Nice video, I had a smaller one for a 700 sqf cabin and it was awesome, I could pack with wood aim a fan at it and it would blast me out of the house 85+degrees, at night I put oak in and turned it to low. Waking up in the morning to about 60ish degrees. I would rather watch the fire then the tv.
Well said!!
Heating with wood is the best! Nothing can compare to the warmth it produces.
You're Right. I hope to never go back to Not Heating with wood.
Except coal.
I love the feeling of wood heat, it just feels better than gas heat. I am glad your new heating system is working well and making the task of heating your home much less difficult.
That "smoldering" fire you refer to when you turn the intake air way down is just coating the chimney with creosote during the night. Then adding carboard in the morning to get the stove going again, is going to ignite that creosote and you'll have a chimney fire before you know it. Never run a low smoldering fire in any wood stove unless you have secondary air tubes that burn up the smoke and creosote.
Is it the same for coal?
@@shadwell749 No, coal does not produce creosote, you can slow a coal burn by reducing the air intake, but I would not have a flue in a coal stove! The exhaust gases are toxic, so I would not impede their flowing out the chimney in any way.
@@shadwell749 no coal burns better
Hey Todd, just a little tip for you. Keep about 1 to 2 inches of ash in the bottom of your stove. It keeps heat in longer and cuts down on wood consumption,
Dan: Question for you. If you have an ash box under the wood stove and that is full would that count as the 1-2 inches or do you have to have the ash box full AND 1-2 inches in the bottom of the stove?
I don't have the same style wood burner as you do so I'm not sure. I don't have an ash box underneath. I have a double door that I feed the wood into and it's just basically a box. I realized that the ash would hold the heat a lot longer than if I kept it cleaned out. My stove is also air tight and I keep it choked down. Rarely do I have flame in there. Good luck with your stove, I wouldn't want to heat any other way! @@mms8393
Thanks Dan. @@danchauvin9896
@@mms8393 in stove ware it counts nit trash bin
@@mms8393 Ash down in the ash box underneath doesnt work. They need to be on the base.
Nothing like a wood burning stove to warm the bones. A must in new England.
I agree and it's 3 degrees outside here in Maine and the old Jotul is cooking away. Finest kind!
They no longer give you a wood stove permits in my Massachusetts town. I'm grandfathered in . And many times the fire department came by becouse someone called reporting a house fire . People with out wood stoves hate people with then .
TO BAD FOR THEM.
@@crispychicken2743 so youre saying some parts of mass you cant have Wood burning applications in your own home??
@@Glockdad Yeah something to do with EPA and particulate pollution. There's a couple of stoves that have been taken off the market because of the EPA. I can't imagine wood stoves remotely affect the atmosphere compared to cars & trucks, but anyway you have to look for them on the used market.
@@ChickensAndGardening they dont want the citizens in america to be self sufficient. They want everyone living in the citys being dependent on big govt. They make stoves now that burn any extra creosote so it shouldnt even be a problem.
You are a lot like me but a bit more energetic! I appreciate your channel and sharing of knowledge!
yeah nothing like the warmth of wood heat. Paul Gautschi says trees store the energy of the sun in its wood. Must be true because it is so soothing and deeply warming.
@Mark OnTheBlueRidge photosynthesis may be the term he uses. The word "energy" I used was off the top of my head. There are many youtube video's on Paul. Maybe get started here....... www.backtoedenfilm.com/. People seek out his knowledge of gardening with the use of wood chips. He calls it " Back to Eden Gardening Method"
I'm in the middle of installing a similar sized stove to supplement our electric heat (to save on power consumption/$$$). I'm planning on running the HVAC blower to distribute the heat throughout the house. Your results are encouraging! Thanks for posting.
I absolutely LOVE the river rock!
Love wood fires. Maybe one day we can get one for our house. Your setup looks great.
Minor aches and pains go away beside the wood stove!
Nice stove! For more even heat try turning the ceiling fans off and install a box fan in your coolest area on the floor blowing the cool air down towards the stove room. Cold air is denser and easier to move, the warm air will flow in over the top to replace the cool air.
Mighty fine set-up. Wood stoves have so much heat that really gets to the bone.
I love your corner with that stone and pavers...Beautiful...I would do that exactly the same way...
i know this video is five years old but i still wanted to recommend those sterling engine fans that use the wood stove heat to blow hot air around the room!
Have steel wood stove in my house ( a Cape) it's from the late 70s and it heats my whole house, run it at 750 or so . Love it , clean it , enjoy it
I love that rock base. Very unique and kool. Well done!!!
Our 1930 Home Comfort kitchen wood stove weighs about 400 lbs. So your stove has good heat mass. We are only heating the main floor with this stove. A large Eco Fan distributes heat into our back bedrooms, but we like those rooms to be cooler. I would not recommend burning pine, except to start your fire. We burn seasoned maple and oak and occasionally apple wood. We are in New Hampshire. Good to see a Vermont wood stove manufacturer. I would like to see them design an airtight kitchen wood stove. So far, I like the Kitchen Queen for a newer version of a kitchen wood stove. Hopefully more folks will discover how wonderful these stove are! Enjoy your stove !
Having lived in AK since the mid 80’s and heating a home with wood only for 4 years in Bethel, I will say 2 words.
Blaze King.
Any semi-decent wood stove will provide more heat than you need if fired continuously, but the real trick is being able to throttle it back and maintain efficiency and consistent temps. That can only be done with a catalytic wood stove. And the only decent one made is blaze king. The king model will burn for almost 48 hours when filled with quality firewood and throttled down or 18-14 hours when it’s really cold outside. Vermont castings don’t hold a candle.
I love our blaze king
I fill it twice a day unless it's really cold.
Don't know why you'ld have anything else.
I’ll pass on those overpriced and maintenance heavy catalytic stoves. These stoves are ten times better. Being marketed as a cooking stove, they avoid all the dumb EPA requirements and are exempt! Best selling point of the nectar stoves.
I like the river rock surrounding the stove there. Looks nice.
very very nice! hats off to you for being you and your passion for this interior wood burning fireplace.
Indeed we could live so simply. Back to basics
Happy your stove is efficient, looking forward to those projects.
When I first got my nectre xl I was worried about the firebox size being smaller than the wood stove it replaced. It doesn't hold as much wood but is far more efficient than I had expected. A pretty good trade off. Now I have a custom soap stone surround and an oven to bake in along with friends that come to sit by the fire I'm pretty cozy in SE Minnesota.
Here are some ideas for you, try bricking the wall behind the wood stove to help retain the heat, eco fan or fans on top, they use no electricity, and still circulates during a power outage, a tea kettle to distribute moisture and raise humidity so you feel warmer, also open the oven door and put a blower fan in there to blow a hotter source of heat. Also I'd be making jerky and biscuits in the oven!
Great looking stove and hearth corner dude !! Best I've ever seen. Jealous. : )
Your stove looks great & what I love about A WOOD STOVE is how quiet it is. I have a pellet stove with a 120 LB hopper which allows it to run about 2 days without refilling or cleaning but I'll admit I do not like the noise pellet stoves make.
My wife & I second that comment, I got it so I don't have to cut so much wood. Plus no heat if power goes out, so wood stove in basement is my main heat source . But we went away for a visit & the house was warm when we got back the pellets had burned 33 hrs so at times there is an advantage, now if I can just get a few pellet trees.
A trick is to have really dense wood like oak or cherry to put on the fire before you go to bed. It burns longer. We have floor registers in the back of our home that allow heat to travel between floors via convection. You can look straight down at someone on the first floor. Regio registers has a good selection and they are easy to install. You just cut a box pass through between floors and dampen them accordingly.
love your wood stove. I will definitely be looking into that model when I build my home.
you can install a floor damper like the ones from your heating /ac unit at the far end of the house. the larger the better. this will help bring more heat to that area.
You have a great set up. I had never really thought about setting it on rocks. That should help the heat because the rock will store heat and give it off during the night. I don't know what the backing is on the wall but if you have concrete, I'm sure that would store heat too. I wouldn't burn pine except as kindling to get the fire started. The reason is that it gives off a lot of residue that will cling to the walls of the stove as well as the stove-pipe. We. used to be very careful about chimney fires when we burned wood in a fireplace. A chimney fire is pretty astounding in addition to being dangerous. For that reason most people who use a fireplace or woodstove try to burn only hardwood. Also, hardwoods burn slower and make much better coals to give off more heat. Wish I had a set-up as good as yours.
I have the smaller version. I have cooked in the oven. It works good for me I really like the stove.
You should put a pan of water on the stove really it will dry out the house quick. I love the bedroom to be cooler then the rest of the house. Wood is the best heat you will warm up when you cut,split,stack and burn what else can warm you at least 4 times.
i agree, heat travels better in more humid air
I live in South Florida and have no use for heating but I love wood burners UA-cam for some reason.
Antique Sun stove in my unheated home office keeps it pretty cozy during the day, but I have to cut the wood to 8" lengths to fit. I've figured out I can chainsaw the logs right in the rack, insert saw through metal hoop so it can't bounce back in my face, can get many days worth of logs cut down to size very quickly. Would love to some day have a full size stove like yours, that can burn full size quarters but stove came with the house so I'm not complaining. It's great not just for heat but also it's a sort of ritual in the morning, go out and chop a little wood, stick in a couple of pieces of fatwood and a few credit card junk mails and the like, and fire is quickly roaring. So comforting and pleasant. And it has a cooking top like yours, can boil water actually.
Nice stove with the ability to bake and cook. You have access to great hardwoods.
great video ...and your right...nothing like sitting in front of a cozy fire....
Thank you. I can't wait to get mine. I'm thinking it might be too much heat after watching this. I still want one.
Add a few floor vents to allow the cold air to fall back to the basement. Add a couple not too close to the fire stove. You'll notice the cold air will be forced down the vents further away from the stove and closer toward the stove the heat will rise. You'll circulate the air and notice a difference on the floors above.
So many people don't know about floor vents for dropping the cold air. It is a game changer for multi level wood heating and if placed in the right spots, they can really do more then one would think. Great comment!
Your stove sounds really good. I like stove that both heats and cooks. One note of caution: You should stay away from pine if at all possible because of creosote buildup in the chimney. It's a fire hazard. It may be less of a problem, however, if the pine is well seasoned.
I burn nothing but pine, where I live nine out of every ten trees is pine.
I clean my chimney twice a year. But the wood should have a moisture content of less than 15%.
You have a very nice home. Great job 😀.
Dont use the ceiling fan unless you have to .let the heat flow . Open an up stairs window a inch or two and it will drag the heat up into that room
We have a large Buck stove in our fire place and keep it fed as much as possible. We also have central heat and air, but keep it set low this time of year since we prefer wood heat.
Having heated with wood most of my life you really want a house planned for its use with the stove centrally located. Some form of air distribution is recommended like the ceiling fan to distribute the heat that collects at the top of the room. I have an air intake duct over mine that pumps warm air to the other end of the house to help with circulation. How this one is done under the sleeping areas of a split level as seen will work well. Because wood is slow steady heat, you really need something for rapid heat, be it a conventional or wood fired furnace connected to central distribution. With a wood stove, mass is your friend. The Scandinavians build a wood stove into a brick mass that has the flue passing thru it. You load and burn one full load at full throttle(batch burn) and the stove radiates gentle heat for many hours.
My nephew had a ranch that he heated with a wood stove as his main heat source. Stove was on the one end of the house in the living room/dining/kitchen area. He had cathedral ceilings on that end, so the heat was always going up to the top. He installed a couple of bathroom exhaust fans up near the peak, on the wall between living area and the sleeping areas, and ran some insulated flexible ducting into the bedrooms and bathrooms to move that heat to the rest of the house. Ran the fans on a timer, so not to be running all the time, worked perfectly!
I have a massive wood stove that devours wood. I feel yours small stove works way better. It must just be built way better. Great video!
Chad, check you chimney exhaust temperature, you may be mostly heating the outdoors. Use a fan to move heat off the stove into the room instead of up the chimney.
@@ccorm3350 I also need to chop down an entire forest each summer to feed my stove🔥. The towns folk enjoy it too as I heat the surrounding area. It’s amazing.
I'm picking up an older shenedoah R-65C wood/coal stove tonight! It's in great condition and I'm hoping it works out well for my house! Thanks for the tips!
Looks great. Grab an ecofan. Runs off the heat of the stove and really moves the air very slow but steady. Thanks.
Home school that's great good job Mom and Dad !!!
Schoolhouse is the best part. Wish ya well brother
Good job, from a 40 plus year wood stove user
I've heard that some people put vents in the ceiling for heat to go up and then vents that go down with pipes that go to within a foot of the floor for cold air to maximize convection of air.
Looks great. A few tips from a Jotul Rockland owner: Get a good head start on your wood pile so you are eventually only burning cured wood. Split, stack and let cure for 2 years, then keep at it. When you load the box pull the existing hot coals to the front in a line and load the box to capacity. No cardboard. The cured wood will burn slowly from front to back. Don’t choke it down too much or too much creosote. Buy the Soot Eater to clean the liner tube yourself. Get some welding gloves from Lowes for about $10 so you don’t burn yourself. As you are already learning, the burn has a cycle. When it gets low you load and it takes time to ramp back up. It will peak and then get cooler, then you repeat. When you need more heat just load 1 on top of a thicker bed of coals. It works but you’ll go through more wood. Finally, I’d get that wood out of the house. Too many bugs etc. Find a covered spot outside by the door. Oh yeah, to remove ashes get a metal cat litter scoop to separate coal from ash, one pile on each side of box, then use a good shovel to remove ash. Have fun!
I have the same stove, The Nectre Big Baker's Oven, also in a three-level split. Also installed at one end of the house. Does a great job. Never have issues with heat distribution. Not a cast iron stove, though. Only the doors are cast. Love the river rock!
Those wood stoves like that are very efficient for heating your house. Used one when I was a kid
Our propane supplier in western Nebraska *hated* our woodstove... He didn't even bother to check our tank until spring and even then he just topped us off. 😁
Add a return air vent next to your fireplace and connect it to your furnace return and put the furnace fan on and you can spread the heat through the whole house.
Need to get a couple of those thermal fans they work great
Nice job and love the wood stove. I have had an outdoor furnace for 14 years now. I burn 10-13 cords of wood a year (north eastern VA). I would not trade it for anything. It was installed properly and also heats my water. I have a heat pump and propane as back up or alternatives. I start the furnace mid to late November and shut it down end of March. It takes a lot of work - no doubt about that! Overall, it has saved my around $2000 to $3000 a year in propane costs. I am glad you found a good solution for your home! Love your channel!
Good Lord !!!! 10 - 13 cords of wood per year??? That's a lot of wood. I burn around 5 to 6 cords from November thru April.
Beautiful stove
Make sure ceiling fan is blowing TOWARD the ceiling in winter. Yep, opposite of what you'd think. Blow down for summer, up for winter. Makes a HUGE difference, that's the way ceiling fans are supposed to work.
So glad its working for you!
Oh man, save that cherry and apple for the smoker. Smoked pork shoulders and rump is awesome, so is chicken and turkey. Heck I have a friend that smokes cheese too.
Make sure when you vacuum up that none of the ash, embers, or pieces of wood in the stones are still hot/on fire. Vacuuming ashes around wood stoves leads to many house fires annually as the embers slowly ignite the bag inside the vacuum and before you know it you have a disaster on your hands!! Stay safe, thanks for the video.
They make hot ember vacuums that don't go into a bag. Just an FYI
@@richfarfugnuven6308 Cool I wasn't aware of that.
Saw one of these a few years back when I dropped my nephew off to college. My fireplace has an insert which requires electricity to truly heat the house. Without electricity the insert doesn't work so well.
I like this stove and am trying to figure out how to have a free standing installed.
My mountain house has a fireplace which will heat the house even without doors on the front. It's design is beautiful but wood wasteful. There isn't enough room to put a free stander on the floor and vent through the fireplace flue. The fireplace opening is quite large and I'm trying to figure a way to place the stove inside the fireplace, seal off the fireplace damper, and let it flow out and through the house that way.
This stove is likely too large for this application. Too bad because I really like the stove.
Good luck with it and I hope it provides a lot of heat for you and your family.
Bee Bob there is a smaller version of this stove. Look up Nectre Baker’s Oven. The one in this video is actually a Nectre Big Bakers Oven.
@@looloo4029 Thanks
your setup sounds exactly like mine. same style house same size stove. we put a cast iron kettle on ours to add humidity to the house. wood heat is very dry. I keep 5-7 cords on hand for a possible power outage. use forced air mostly as a convenience . not real handy if you're gone for several hours out of the day. love the ability to back up to the wood stove after shoveling snow off the driveway.
Awesome news and savings for you all!
Back home in Michigan in my old place I put floor grates in each room that had access to the ceiling above the woodstove level...
In the winter your fan should be sucking UP, not blowing down. It works a LOT better.
You could run your furnace fan on the "on" setting instead of "auto" and it would circulate the heat close to evenly throughout the house. A wifi thermostat is good for this, so you can control it remotely when needed to move the hot air around to even things out. That's how I keep my living room from getting too hot for comfort.
i have done this for customer i have gone one step further and install cold air return in the the ceiling close to the wood stove sucking all the hot air that develops at the ceiling level And Distributing it through the house customers that I've done this for said it works great and keeps the house warm even Heat I even installed a hot water loop on the back of a stove once which we circulated water through and then passed it through the hot water heating system this also worked very well I live in a cold climate curved the heating cost quite a bit
A cast iron tea pot on stove. Install water grid to pre heat your hot water. Using wood stove
I have a Napolean wood stove that has a double blower. I'd never buy a wood stove without a blower. Especially when it gets below 25, if the blower isn't on you have to be in the same room as the wood stove to stay warm. I live in a log cabin that was built about 60 years ago with cement chinking; and it has single pane windows with very leaky and some missing storm windows, so I have little insulation. Luckily my 2nd floor bedroom is directly above the living room with the wood stove in it, so it stays plenty warm. The rest of the 2nd floor however, (bathroom and spare bedroom) stay fairly cold. The #1 advantage of course is that it is an off-grid heat source in case the whole-house furnace has no power, and I enjoy the ambiance. I keep a stack of wood by the stove big enough for 24 hrs, so I only have to haul it in once a day. The one bright side to the emerald ash borer in my area is that tons of trees are coming down for free firewood. Ash burns pretty fast, but it burns hot and seasons fast.
You can get an inline heat exchanger that will fit right above your stove that has a fan with it and it will make a huge difference. Goodluck from Oklahoma.
They suck, I bought and used 3 of them in a single year, Now I do not use anything just pipe, I do not use a damper. I just control air via the stove.
@@kameljoe21 I use one and its about a 15 degree difference in how warm I can make my house. They work if you get a good one. If you buy cheap then yeah they will go out pretty quick. Buy good steel pipe and build your own. If your not handy welding I'm sure there is a machine shop around that would build it for a small fee.
@Mark OnTheBlueRidge I keep hearing about how they cool the pipe off and and make more creosote but I have yet to see it myself. If you burn good dry wood there is little creosote residue. Also the dirtier the fire the more left in the pipe. I've been burning for well over 30 years and have yet to see any issues. Either I'm doing something right or your doing something wrong either way lets figure it out.
@@pitviper8795 Yeah, I bought 3 different types and styles, I did not like them. The house was quite large and needed more heat than they could stand. Where I live now, We do not need anything like that. We have a small house and end up having to open windows in rooms we are in. Not that we burn it super hot, Just way to much insulation during the warmer times of the years. Tonight will drop to 15F and we had a little fire ( about a cubic foot of wood ) around 6pm and will not start another one till around the same time tomorrow, The high for tomorrow will be low 40s. Fires around here are are when you are cold enough that a blanket is not enough.
use one every year. it has an internal scraper i use every fire. i check my soot 2x a year but only brush once a year on my metal pipe. going straight up and out my roof. i bought it used and it works awesome. i wish i had some ductwork in my house to circulate the air. i know ductwork but i dont care to crawl around in my attic as its loaded with loose blown in insulation.
I loved when I heated with wood the greatest heat ever
I've heard of a 'kitchen grate' that people would put in the ceiling of the basement to the floor of the kitchen above, to fast track the heat upstairs, but of course it leaves the basement cooler. YMMV.
Now that I call a great success! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
If your furnace motor is efficient enough it might be a thought to leave it running on just air circulation just to move the air around the house during the night during colder weather I know with my parents thermostat you can set the thermostat to run the furnace fan and it will cycle the heat on and off as needed
Wayhart you have to be careful some furnaces blowers are strong enough to reverse your draft
I have a newer house with zone returns - I can't use the furnace blower to disburse heat.
@@jtbrunton if you have a home controller on the furnace you can sometimes have a furnace guy install an override panel which will allow you to individually control eat shrooms temperature without calling for heat which just causes the fan to come on and deliver air to the room as well as trying to regulate the temperature of the room that is warmer than it should be by opening up the vents and running air through the room at the same time and they are should mix inside the furnace if you have a single furnace in your house if you have dual furnaces you would have to have an air mixing setup installed that would exchange the air between two or more systems which is typically a fan with baffles that just blows air from one duct to the other and a return back to the original so you would have to have someone who has installed a system like it before or speak to someone in a Northern climate like Alaska or the Yukon who has more experience with systems like this who could guide a local guy through the process I used to work for a home integration company and I have seen a few systems like this where we would tie them into the home automation so that the customer could tell if he had to go home and restock the wood furnace
@@waylonhartwell Picture this - my house is a pole-barn style and measures 36'X72'. The single thermostat is located near the center in a hallway. The rooms have their own return air vents rather than a single air return in the center of the house. That is what I meant by zoned. My stove is located in the center of the house near the return air for the kitchen/living room. One would think the rising hot air would go up that return and disburse to the most outlying rooms. This doesn't seem to be the case. Perhaps if I put plastic over the return vents in the outlying room there may be a chance warm air would disburse. Unless it it really cold I would prefer the bed rooms at the far ends remain cool for sleeping.
@@jtbrunton yeah typically zoned rooms mean that each room has an individual thermostat and the hot air vent has a damper that opens and closes with the furnace having a variable speed motor on it so that as there is a call for heat the furnace will ramp up and ramped down according to the demand for heat with your system you might try just to see if it works closing off a few of your cold air return vents as long as you don't starve your furnace fan for air and you could also try pulling the great off of the return air vent closest to the wood Heat to see if that would create some air movement in the house but like you said having cooler bedrooms at night is nice so it might be a Simple Thing as putting a stand-alone fan close to your wood Heat and letting it push the heat down 2 a different part of the house what I've seen a few people do is install thermostats on the power cord of the fan that turn on at a certain temperature and turn off as it cools down so that when your wood heat goes out in the middle of the night you're not blowing cool air around the house it would probably be the simplest solution if it was really something that you wanted to try
Looks like another cold winter for Michigan.
Great video! It was very informative as well. My wife and I are on a journey to try to be more self-sufficient. Thank you for your video. Looks like a great looking stove. Just a couple suggestions. Turn on your furnace blower to help circulate the heat from the stove even better. Also if you have poplar wood around your area it can help clean out the stove and pipe by burning it.
Steven Rushton you can buy an Eco Fan which sits on top of the stove. No electric required. It automatically starts up when the air rising from the heater reaches 50 degrees.
Put a small fan blowing down the upstairs into the stove room. Draws the cold air and directs it to the stove; the air moved is replaced with warm air. Cold dense air pushes easier than warm light air.
Glad its treating you well
U might try leaving the fan on your propane furnace in the on position it will move all the air throughout your house and still allows the furnace to kick on if needed Heated with wood for many years and it worked well for about the same size of house in Ontario Canada All the best
Does it work? Well lets see, Its a big hot metal box in your house ding ding Yes it works.
Yeah waiting with baited breath for this one!!! BAM there it was and here I am LOL. Yep nothing like a wood fire. Feels good too. I love my stove, should've bought one a bit bigger. But I do the same thing you do. You have with your rocks etc built a rocket mass type of heating. I may have to do something around mine as well. With the door to the stairs open it drafts like a chimney.
If your propane heat source is a furnace and not a boiler, you could set the thermostat to the "fan on" position and that would circulate as well as filter the air throughout the home.
Excellent info.
That company also sells the San Marino masonry heater. That’s what I am interested in.
Djee, in my country it is not allowed to burn wood in a stove or fireplace because of the severe polution it produces. One wood stove equals like 10 big rig trucks in polution. Wonder why we do this if other earth dwellers simply dont care at all, truly amazing imo.
Burning wood should actually not produce any pollution if burned properly. Also, planting and growing trees to later burn for wood is carbon neutral. They absorb carbon then release it when burned.
Hendrikus -- Sounds like you and your fellow countrymen have been brainwashed..... I feel sorry for you. Like SSL stated, burning wood is carbon neutral.....
Ceiling through to next level floor vents would exchange more heat from your basement to the bed room areas
housing code mite not allow do to fire spreading quickly.old house are some times grandfathered in depends were you live. and insurance company mite not allow floor vents for the same reason.
In my area of Michigan it's very much so against code. An old house can be grandfathered in but insurance can turn u down.