Hello, I feel lucky to have stumbled on such an informative site since I began my new "hobby" of using a wood furnace in parallel with existing gas furnace.
I'm sure I can expect some helpful info regarding my current 1557M setup and appreciate all the helpful hints that I've read on this site in the past 2 weeks
Okay here it goes.. shortly after purchasing my unit new from the local TSC, I found that I needed to have a chimney added. So I had a local masonry guy build me a 20ft. double flu block chimney with clay liners (one flu for the gas furnace, 2nd for the wood furnace) on the outside side of my house. He dug and poured the footer then broke thru the wall to install 2 thimbles.Unfortunately the only viable place to put it, put my 6" thimbles in the basement near a block wall. For this reason I have a 6ft horizontal black stove pipe going to an elbow, then 2ft down into another elbow connected to the furnace. I plummed the 6ft piece with a slight angle of 1/2 bubble on my level. I added the dampner to the 2 ft piece. (See Pics attached). I'm now thinking that I don't have near enough of an angle on the horiz. pipe due to some recent back puffing when the ash door or feed doors are opened.
The 2-8" heat ports I connected using a T and then into the main heating duct of the house. (Maybe this should also be changed and eliminate the T?)
With the stock twin blowers controlled by the thermo disc, they run pretty constant. I occasionally turn on the main blower for the other furnace to help circulate the warm air on the colder days.
When the outside temps are 25+ and I'm burning good dry wood the houses stays around 72-75 or warmer.
When they are lower like today here in Ohio at 10 today, it struggles to stay 68-69.
The house is an older 2 story home approx. 2200 sq.ft with a full basement were the 1557M sits.
I'm not sure if its a combination of things or if the chimney is sucking all the heat out, so I thought I'd post it for your opinions.
My future plans include: Hi/Lo blower control, Re-running the horiz. stove pipe to 45 degrees down to the furnace, and adding a cold air box (which I just fabbed up yesterday) to the main cold air return duct.
Hopefully I can attach the pictures and I welcome your thoughts. Happy Cutting :greenchainsaw:
I'm sure I can expect some helpful info regarding my current 1557M setup and appreciate all the helpful hints that I've read on this site in the past 2 weeks
Okay here it goes.. shortly after purchasing my unit new from the local TSC, I found that I needed to have a chimney added. So I had a local masonry guy build me a 20ft. double flu block chimney with clay liners (one flu for the gas furnace, 2nd for the wood furnace) on the outside side of my house. He dug and poured the footer then broke thru the wall to install 2 thimbles.Unfortunately the only viable place to put it, put my 6" thimbles in the basement near a block wall. For this reason I have a 6ft horizontal black stove pipe going to an elbow, then 2ft down into another elbow connected to the furnace. I plummed the 6ft piece with a slight angle of 1/2 bubble on my level. I added the dampner to the 2 ft piece. (See Pics attached). I'm now thinking that I don't have near enough of an angle on the horiz. pipe due to some recent back puffing when the ash door or feed doors are opened.
The 2-8" heat ports I connected using a T and then into the main heating duct of the house. (Maybe this should also be changed and eliminate the T?)
With the stock twin blowers controlled by the thermo disc, they run pretty constant. I occasionally turn on the main blower for the other furnace to help circulate the warm air on the colder days.
When the outside temps are 25+ and I'm burning good dry wood the houses stays around 72-75 or warmer.
When they are lower like today here in Ohio at 10 today, it struggles to stay 68-69.
The house is an older 2 story home approx. 2200 sq.ft with a full basement were the 1557M sits.
I'm not sure if its a combination of things or if the chimney is sucking all the heat out, so I thought I'd post it for your opinions.
My future plans include: Hi/Lo blower control, Re-running the horiz. stove pipe to 45 degrees down to the furnace, and adding a cold air box (which I just fabbed up yesterday) to the main cold air return duct.
Hopefully I can attach the pictures and I welcome your thoughts. Happy Cutting :greenchainsaw: