Need Help! - Tough Stove Placement Issue

[begreen]

Yikes! That's seriously high. I suggest living with the house for a year. By then you will have gone through all 4 seasons and will have the past heating bills for a baseline. The additional time will help you get more familiar with the house layout and opportunities to look at other potential options that may be more workable.

 

[speedy]

Since my wife always wanted a screen-room, I'm thinking of turning my deck into a 4-season room and adding a chimney and fireplace to that.

 

[begreen]

That might open an interesting option if it is a good EPA ZC fireplace. It could gravity vent into the main part of the house.

 

[jetsam]

Since my wife always wanted a screen-room, I'm thinking of turning my deck into a 4-season room and adding a chimney and fireplace to that.

"How do I get some heat from my sunroom stove into the house?" is a frequently asked question around here. Most people don't like the answers they get, either (since the best answer is 'move the stove inside', and #2 involves ripping out a structural wall).

That's not to say that a sunroom stove can't heat a sunroom nicely, but it faces some challenges with heating a house.

If you have ducting for forced air heat already in the house though, that might open up some options for having your cake and eating it too.

 

[speedy]

My HVAC (heat pump) ducts are in the ceilings. Ducting into a new sun room may be a royal pain. I dunno. I miss my woodstove already and it isn't even burn season yet.

 

[begreen]

This is why I suggested looking at the ducted EPA fireplace option. The vents would go from the fireplace directly to the home interior through the common wall.

 

[speedy]

If I do the sun room there will be a 6 foot opening with double doors between the sunroom and the main part of the house so hoping for lots of heat transfer there.

 

[begreen]

If I do the sun room there will be a 6 foot opening with double doors between the sunroom and the main part of the house so hoping for lots of heat transfer there.

It'll need some assistance, like a fan blowing air down low, into the sunroom from the main part of the house.

 

[john26]

If you run the chase all the way up you will need to put a "CRICKET" in your roof