hello everyone,
I'm new to hearth.com and I'm completely overwhelmed. I've looked online and spoken to two different wood stove stores and chimney companies in the area and I"m not getting anywhere. Hoping you guys can help - the pellet/wood stove/fireplace people all want to sell me stuff. If this is the wrong forum, let me know and I'll try and find the right one!!
We recenty bought an old house (c.1900) with some more recent additions (c.1980s) ~2200sq feet. It came with a pellet stove at the far end of the house - it's sitting in front of a fireplace but not in it. Not to code and we need to either put it on the floor (it's sitting on a 18"high brickwall that attaches to fireplace) or get a pellet/wood insert. It's a Kozi MX. We used it 2x and then turned it off until we could learn more.
The house has long and mostly straight layout (from room w/ wood pellet stove --> kitchen --> dining room --> front room. Front room has stairs that go up to 3 small bedrooms. Off the dining room - to the left - is an addition (living room). In the living room is a wood stove. We don't know if it works - we won't light it up because the pipe outside is installed completely wrong AND it's an indoor pipe and rusted.
Our concerns are:
replacing pipe in in dining room (wood stove) is at least $2300, thinking of moving the free standing pellet stove to wood stove location - cheaper install. Even so, we aren't not sure if the heat (from either stove) will make it out of the living room and into the dining area. Both stoves have blowers but we need the heat to go into the dining room after heating living room (right turn) and heat the middle of the house.
At the far end of the house, we are considering a pellet or wood stove-insert in the fireplace area. The chimney is there and needs to be cleaned but it seems like an insert would be better than taking up all the floor space or doing something illegal and unsafe like the previous owner did (sitting on the brick wall)
We haven't been in the house for a winter, so we don't know how cold it gets but we know the insulation isn't great and we need to add more above the pellet stove room and probably in the attic. That will probably help but most of our issue seems to be how will we move the air. The idea of the living room stove appeals to us because it in more centrally located - master bedroom is above living room, and the rest of the rooms of the house are all in that general area.
So...if any of this makes sense...can someone help guide me in the right direction? Or to a website I might not have seen yet? I feel like I'm going in circles :/
thanks,
Meg
I'm new to hearth.com and I'm completely overwhelmed. I've looked online and spoken to two different wood stove stores and chimney companies in the area and I"m not getting anywhere. Hoping you guys can help - the pellet/wood stove/fireplace people all want to sell me stuff. If this is the wrong forum, let me know and I'll try and find the right one!!
We recenty bought an old house (c.1900) with some more recent additions (c.1980s) ~2200sq feet. It came with a pellet stove at the far end of the house - it's sitting in front of a fireplace but not in it. Not to code and we need to either put it on the floor (it's sitting on a 18"high brickwall that attaches to fireplace) or get a pellet/wood insert. It's a Kozi MX. We used it 2x and then turned it off until we could learn more.
The house has long and mostly straight layout (from room w/ wood pellet stove --> kitchen --> dining room --> front room. Front room has stairs that go up to 3 small bedrooms. Off the dining room - to the left - is an addition (living room). In the living room is a wood stove. We don't know if it works - we won't light it up because the pipe outside is installed completely wrong AND it's an indoor pipe and rusted.
Our concerns are:
replacing pipe in in dining room (wood stove) is at least $2300, thinking of moving the free standing pellet stove to wood stove location - cheaper install. Even so, we aren't not sure if the heat (from either stove) will make it out of the living room and into the dining area. Both stoves have blowers but we need the heat to go into the dining room after heating living room (right turn) and heat the middle of the house.
At the far end of the house, we are considering a pellet or wood stove-insert in the fireplace area. The chimney is there and needs to be cleaned but it seems like an insert would be better than taking up all the floor space or doing something illegal and unsafe like the previous owner did (sitting on the brick wall)
We haven't been in the house for a winter, so we don't know how cold it gets but we know the insulation isn't great and we need to add more above the pellet stove room and probably in the attic. That will probably help but most of our issue seems to be how will we move the air. The idea of the living room stove appeals to us because it in more centrally located - master bedroom is above living room, and the rest of the rooms of the house are all in that general area.
So...if any of this makes sense...can someone help guide me in the right direction? Or to a website I might not have seen yet? I feel like I'm going in circles :/
thanks,
Meg