Woodstoves

[bluey]

Our woodstove is in the basement and our floors are vented. The basement becomes hotter than hell but the rest of the house is very much evenly heated. My FIL has a gigunda outdoor woodburner with a hot water exchange system that heats two houses and a large garage. That works quite nicely for him as well.

I couldn't imagine having the woodburner in the living room.

 

[MissPrissy]

Here is a link with last years woodstove conversation complete with photos.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=18904

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[CritterHill]

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Ours is in the basement and our floors are NOT vented - that is until DH got out the sawzall...

As nervous as I was (he had to cut through our beautiful tile at one point) it made a world of difference. He even installed a small fan in the subfloor to help move the heat up into the main floor.

 

[WilliamLaurence]

I bought one of these from ChimneyHeaters.com . I installed and it works fine. Heats my 2000

square foot house. I have the pump connected to a UPS but I am not sure how long the pump

will run if the electric goes out. I had it installed all winter and did not have to turn on

my Electric heat once which saved me about 200 euro a month here in Romania.

The Electric is not stable here so I had to rush to take out the fire a couple of times

because the water pump had stopped and the pressure valves were going off. The UPS will

solve that but I don't know how long a UPS will keep my central pump going. I will attach a

pic of what chimney heaters are in case you are not familiar with them. The pump is a

Grundfos and has three speeds.