Chinook 30 not heating the house

[stoveliker]

Great point and, this should have been mentioned much earlier.

Uhm...
Post in thread 'Chinook 30 not heating the house' https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/chinook-30-not-heating-the-house.206445/post-2754815

 

[all night moe]

How high are the ceilings? 15 ft? (22 ft pipe)
Does all the heat pool near the ceiling (as physics dictates)?
If so, a ceiling fan may help (in the setting where it does not "blow downwards", but blows upwards; the warm air will then glide along the ceiling and then to the walls where it'll go down to replace the air being sucked up in the middle. This avoids sitting in the stream of air under a fan that blows down, which will lead one to feel colder than needs to be. (I know this does not negate your 59 F measurement, but it's useful nonetheless.)

Credit where credit is due. So much reading and so many threads. Somehow I missed this or plain dumb forgot.

My apology, my friend.

 

[Highbeam]

Sure, I'm not disagreeing with your point. But "not enough wood" should be well within the grasp of anyone who's heated any house with any stove. This isn't exactly quantum physics.

I guess we will see! If this turns out to be the problem, someone'd better take away the neighbor's matches.

I'm thinking it's also how or when the question was asked. The OP could say to the nice and well meaning neighbor, "look at this full stove, I keep it full and I'm cold". The stove is actually 75% full of coals with three fresh splits on top. The neighbor that is keeping his house warm like everybody else with full cycles sees a full stove and says, "that's what I do too". Regular stove people would just say that if the bypass is closed and the stove full of wood looking stuff and the thermostat is on high that you're doing all you can do and there's nothing to fix.

Hearth members would consider fuel quality, flue construction, clogged cap, obstructed OAK intake, top off loading frequency, coal accumulation, etc.

I can tell you from experience that when you're asking too much of a stove and coals start to fill the firebox that output falls way way off. Flue temps drop, active flame drops, even with good quality fuel. People have been known to shovel out piles of red coals in order to fit new fresh fuel in and get that raging heat output that comes with the early stages of wood combustion.

 

[all night moe]

that raging heat output that comes with the early stages of wood combustion.

Yes, wonderful, wonderful, off gassing.