Hi Guys,
I want some input and opinions. This is the case:
I have a Quadrafire Isle Royale. Fantastic, large, top loading wood stove. It has been very cold lately here in Central NY (0-10 at night, 10-20 during the day). My house is large (2500+ ft) and not well laid out for a wood stove. I use 2 fans to move the heat, which works well.
I have been running it as hot as possible to get as much heat in the house as I can. This is the cycle I use: I add wood (cherry and locust), run the air full open until the temp hits 900, then shut the air to half and run that for 1-2 hours until the heat goes to 700. Then I open the air fully again, and wait another 1/2 hour until the temp goes lower. Then I add wood and start all over again.
This works well, except that over the weekend, I kept getting more and more and more coals on the bottom of the stove, so that by saturday night, I almost couldn't add any wood anymore. The stove was mostly red coals, but the heat was only 650. The only thing that saved me was that overnight, the stove does consume most of the coals so that I had a nice empty stove on sunday morning.
Questions: is this normal what happened to me? Is there anything I can do? Any other comments/sugestions?
Thanks
Carpniels
I want some input and opinions. This is the case:
I have a Quadrafire Isle Royale. Fantastic, large, top loading wood stove. It has been very cold lately here in Central NY (0-10 at night, 10-20 during the day). My house is large (2500+ ft) and not well laid out for a wood stove. I use 2 fans to move the heat, which works well.
I have been running it as hot as possible to get as much heat in the house as I can. This is the cycle I use: I add wood (cherry and locust), run the air full open until the temp hits 900, then shut the air to half and run that for 1-2 hours until the heat goes to 700. Then I open the air fully again, and wait another 1/2 hour until the temp goes lower. Then I add wood and start all over again.
This works well, except that over the weekend, I kept getting more and more and more coals on the bottom of the stove, so that by saturday night, I almost couldn't add any wood anymore. The stove was mostly red coals, but the heat was only 650. The only thing that saved me was that overnight, the stove does consume most of the coals so that I had a nice empty stove on sunday morning.
Questions: is this normal what happened to me? Is there anything I can do? Any other comments/sugestions?
Thanks
Carpniels