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- The heating of old houses | Hearth. com Forums Home
The oldest portion of the house was built in the 1850's and the large portion of the house was added on in 1906 The old portion of the house consists of what used to be the main house now our kitchen and a summer kitchen, both of witch have a thimble in the wall but the original chimneys have been torn down below the roof line and roofed over
- Tips on if Your pellet stove is burning lazy and or getting smoke in . . .
The last time I was at that house MY SELF for a full service about 3 years ago it had a wood stove cap on it We took it off and put on a wood stove cap and ran the stove Worked good 4 hours latter she calls doing it again I tell her to leave the stove on I go out there put a Magnahilic gage on it Poor pressure and little change with air
- No power to circulator pump | Hearth. com Forums Home
So if you tie the burner pump together, the pump will stop every time the boiler gets up to temp If the 8148 aquatstat is faulty, I would replace it $130 on Supply House website But I would first make very sure it is faulty Part of a typical setup also is that there is a zone valve between the thermostat, and the aquatstat
- mini split usage in 2-story home with small bedrooms on second floor
In your house, that'd be less likely to happen, unless you have a habit of leaving windows open while running AC There have been many drainage issues tied to minisplits, but usually any experienced installer is aware of these sortcomings, and then tend to be cautious in their drain line slope and planning
- Best Wood Stove? | Hearth. com Forums Home
While your intended square footage may be 1,300, your cubic footage is equivalent to that of a 2,000 square foot house or even more depending on the heights of the ceilings Stove manufacturers’ square footage ratings are calculated assuming eight foot ceilings and a cool winter climate like the Pacific Northwest, not an extremely cold climate
- Clothes dryer heat recovery heat exchanger - Hearth. com Forums
This is a double win in that you get the free heat from both the hot air and heat of vaporization of the water, and you also keep the dryer from pulling cold outside air into the house that needs to be heated by your furnace You can check my numbers, but I get that a system like this could cut total clothes drying energy (electric and HVAC) by
- Dog House Air Question | Hearth. com Forums Home
I can load the stove with 5 decent splits on a bed of coals about 830 pm and by 2 am the stove is about 200 and the house is cooling down Our house is a 1400 sq ft polebarn house with 2x6 walls and blown in insulation
- Great Stuff spray foam OK in contact with copper hot water baseboard . . .
I have an addition on my house from the previous owners There is one section where the copper baseboard hot water pipes exit the building envelope and then poke through the addition floor Not the way I would have done it, but it's there nonetheless I found this out by noticing a big draft coming from this area in the main house (basement)
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