2012outdoorsman
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Been reading for a little while now and decided to post as I've never come across an answer to my question.
I have a heatmor owb with a single blower to heat my house (2200sq ft not including basement). I bought my house from my fil who put the owb in about 10 years ago. His new house he bought a central owb due to the natural draft sign and thinking it would burn less. We'll all in all he burns roughly 40% less than I do and cam easily get 24hr burn. There is no way I can burn that little wood and was wondering if down sizing the blower would help. The wood burning often turns into a funnel shape and burns much quicker when next to the blower. It also can have flames seen at the end of the chimney as it's only 6"long. I've looked into the blower size and have thought about just buying one 50% smaller but was wondering if anyone gave it a try. Even a variable one would be nice.
He does have better insulation and all my house is only from 1986 wit decent insulation. I did the blown in insulation for the second story this summer and brought it from an r30 to roughly r50-60. When redoing the upstairs this summer I pulled up all plywood floor and put r30 unfaced in which may help too.
Thanks!
I have a heatmor owb with a single blower to heat my house (2200sq ft not including basement). I bought my house from my fil who put the owb in about 10 years ago. His new house he bought a central owb due to the natural draft sign and thinking it would burn less. We'll all in all he burns roughly 40% less than I do and cam easily get 24hr burn. There is no way I can burn that little wood and was wondering if down sizing the blower would help. The wood burning often turns into a funnel shape and burns much quicker when next to the blower. It also can have flames seen at the end of the chimney as it's only 6"long. I've looked into the blower size and have thought about just buying one 50% smaller but was wondering if anyone gave it a try. Even a variable one would be nice.
He does have better insulation and all my house is only from 1986 wit decent insulation. I did the blown in insulation for the second story this summer and brought it from an r30 to roughly r50-60. When redoing the upstairs this summer I pulled up all plywood floor and put r30 unfaced in which may help too.
Thanks!