We have a rowhouse/ brownstone that has three storys, each about 500 sq ft. connected by stairs. The house is attached to the neighbors houses on either side. It's in NYC. The kitchen where the stove will be located is on the lowest floor which has an open floor plan.
I'm looking at the Jotul F100, F3CB and the Craftsbury wood stoves as possible choices. I would like to heat the entire house, but do not know if this is possible with the way our house is built (on 3 levels) and whether trying to do so would then drive us out of the kitchen due to the extreme heat or whether we would have to underfire it all the time, which I understand is not ideal. If not, then I would be happy trying to heat just the kitchen floor and maybe a bit of the next floor. I also would like to cook stews/ soups on the stove.
My question is mainly about sizing. Should I rely on the BTU values given by the manufacturers or are those often overstated?
Does anyone have a preference among the above stoves? Which size stove would be ideal?
A heat-loss calcualtion I did when the boiler was installed showed that the lowest floor requires about 10,000 BTU/hour when it is 20 degrees outside (it does not get much colder here) and the entire house needs about 35,000 BTU/hour.
Thanks!!
I'm looking at the Jotul F100, F3CB and the Craftsbury wood stoves as possible choices. I would like to heat the entire house, but do not know if this is possible with the way our house is built (on 3 levels) and whether trying to do so would then drive us out of the kitchen due to the extreme heat or whether we would have to underfire it all the time, which I understand is not ideal. If not, then I would be happy trying to heat just the kitchen floor and maybe a bit of the next floor. I also would like to cook stews/ soups on the stove.
My question is mainly about sizing. Should I rely on the BTU values given by the manufacturers or are those often overstated?
Does anyone have a preference among the above stoves? Which size stove would be ideal?
A heat-loss calcualtion I did when the boiler was installed showed that the lowest floor requires about 10,000 BTU/hour when it is 20 degrees outside (it does not get much colder here) and the entire house needs about 35,000 BTU/hour.
Thanks!!