First let me start by saying "what an awesome forum". Second let me say I am a complete novice at woodburning.
We recently purchased a double wide manufactured home that is approx 1900 Sq Ft. It currently uses electric forced air heating, and after doing some research I can't decide what my best option is. I am looking at either going with a stand alone wood stove or a wood furnace attached to the existing duct.
A couple concerns, most of the wood furnaces I see say they are not approved for mobile/manufactured homes. Our home actually sits on a full basement, which is where the current furnace is located. Any ideas why one of these would not be able to be installed in the basement? Also the chimney would have to run out of the basement wall and up the side of the house. I thought I read somewhere that the metal chimney going up the house would have to be triple wall, but I only see Lowes, Home Depot and Menards selling double wall http://menards.com/main/plumbing/he...wall/6-x-36-chimney-pipe/p-1323305-c-8502.htm. Would it be ok to use this?
Now for the wood stove route. I have two concerns with this, the first being if the stove would be able to keep the whole house warm. The house is about 65' long and about 30' wide, obviously split into two sides right down the middle. On the front half of the house is a family room, then the kitchen, then a good size living room. The family room is basically wide open to the kitchen and then a door sized entrance way leads into the living room. On the back of the house is two smaller bedrooms and a bath(directly behind the family room/kitchen) which is accessed through a door sized entrance from the kitchen. The master bed/bath sit behind the main living room. So do you thing it would be possible to heat this whole house with a wood stove in the family room?
I'm not concerned with it being too hot in the family room as we don't use it much, I am more concerned if the living room and bedroom would stay warm on the other end of the house.
The second concern is this has no attic access, the last homeowners said it was completely filled with insulation when it was brought in. Is it possible to run this chimney pipe up through the ceiling and roof without having access to the attic.
Any suggestions on which option would be best???
Thanks in advance!
We recently purchased a double wide manufactured home that is approx 1900 Sq Ft. It currently uses electric forced air heating, and after doing some research I can't decide what my best option is. I am looking at either going with a stand alone wood stove or a wood furnace attached to the existing duct.
A couple concerns, most of the wood furnaces I see say they are not approved for mobile/manufactured homes. Our home actually sits on a full basement, which is where the current furnace is located. Any ideas why one of these would not be able to be installed in the basement? Also the chimney would have to run out of the basement wall and up the side of the house. I thought I read somewhere that the metal chimney going up the house would have to be triple wall, but I only see Lowes, Home Depot and Menards selling double wall http://menards.com/main/plumbing/he...wall/6-x-36-chimney-pipe/p-1323305-c-8502.htm. Would it be ok to use this?
Now for the wood stove route. I have two concerns with this, the first being if the stove would be able to keep the whole house warm. The house is about 65' long and about 30' wide, obviously split into two sides right down the middle. On the front half of the house is a family room, then the kitchen, then a good size living room. The family room is basically wide open to the kitchen and then a door sized entrance way leads into the living room. On the back of the house is two smaller bedrooms and a bath(directly behind the family room/kitchen) which is accessed through a door sized entrance from the kitchen. The master bed/bath sit behind the main living room. So do you thing it would be possible to heat this whole house with a wood stove in the family room?
I'm not concerned with it being too hot in the family room as we don't use it much, I am more concerned if the living room and bedroom would stay warm on the other end of the house.
The second concern is this has no attic access, the last homeowners said it was completely filled with insulation when it was brought in. Is it possible to run this chimney pipe up through the ceiling and roof without having access to the attic.
Any suggestions on which option would be best???
Thanks in advance!