I thought I'd raise the question of "where should I put my stove" this winter.
Currently our stove (70's era All Nighter Mid-Moe) is in my office of my house, a cental location. Our home is ~1000 sq ft single floor ranch. We've heated two winters with our stove and are very happy wood burners. My question is, what effects would it have if I move it to the basement and use the duct work from the defunct oil furnace to move the air. Currently use a blower on the stove and 3 small fans to move cold air around the house. it works well, but i'm tired of cold feet and a basement that averaged 42* over the winter. I've suspected since we bought our house that there is little to no insulation. A recent roof inpection confirmed, zero insulation in the roof and I'm 99% certain there is nothing in the walls either.
My thought was to move to the basement.
1) I can bring my 1/2 cord bags of firewood into the door of the basement with the tractor then use a pallet jack to move and store a few bags in the basement
2) it'll keep the kids away from the stove. the 2.5 year old knows not to touch the stove, but we will have a 9 month old who will just be getting mobile in the winter time.
3) I'll have warm floors
4) I can possibly tie into DHW system very easily in the basement, and reduce our propane bill for the winter (we still get clobbered here in the northeast... 4.29/gal)
5) should be easier to regulate temperature upstairs in all rooms and reduce cool spots since we have more registers than fans.
The basement is not insulated either. Am I going to be fighting the basement foundation all winter (in regards to it being a heat sink? I suspect it'll take a while to warm the basement up initially, however as long as we keep the fire going (like we do now anyway) we'll be fine, i think?.
I'm going to add some insulation to the roof when I do some repair work in the fall but not going to do anything with the walls as we're going to rebuild next year.
what am I missing?
Currently our stove (70's era All Nighter Mid-Moe) is in my office of my house, a cental location. Our home is ~1000 sq ft single floor ranch. We've heated two winters with our stove and are very happy wood burners. My question is, what effects would it have if I move it to the basement and use the duct work from the defunct oil furnace to move the air. Currently use a blower on the stove and 3 small fans to move cold air around the house. it works well, but i'm tired of cold feet and a basement that averaged 42* over the winter. I've suspected since we bought our house that there is little to no insulation. A recent roof inpection confirmed, zero insulation in the roof and I'm 99% certain there is nothing in the walls either.
My thought was to move to the basement.
1) I can bring my 1/2 cord bags of firewood into the door of the basement with the tractor then use a pallet jack to move and store a few bags in the basement
2) it'll keep the kids away from the stove. the 2.5 year old knows not to touch the stove, but we will have a 9 month old who will just be getting mobile in the winter time.
3) I'll have warm floors
4) I can possibly tie into DHW system very easily in the basement, and reduce our propane bill for the winter (we still get clobbered here in the northeast... 4.29/gal)
5) should be easier to regulate temperature upstairs in all rooms and reduce cool spots since we have more registers than fans.
The basement is not insulated either. Am I going to be fighting the basement foundation all winter (in regards to it being a heat sink? I suspect it'll take a while to warm the basement up initially, however as long as we keep the fire going (like we do now anyway) we'll be fine, i think?.
I'm going to add some insulation to the roof when I do some repair work in the fall but not going to do anything with the walls as we're going to rebuild next year.
what am I missing?