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We are looking at buying a house that has a stone fireplace in the living room and a place in the basement to connect a woodstove, the house is 1456 sq ft on one floor and the basement is same sq Was wondering if placing a woodstove in the basement wood supply. The stack was lower than my house and it would set off a smoke detector in my attic The town elected to work with him and after he put in a 30' extension on his stack it became far less of an issue Obviously making your home tighter will reduce the smoke getting inside If you have a chimney and are not using it, that is logical thing to seal. People in the forum often talk about the best way to circulate heat from a wood stove around the house, and one of the most often recommend ways is to use fans on the floor to blow cold air from the cooler rooms in the direction of the wood stove to help the warm air recirculate back into those rooms. If you are getting smoke in the house or you stove just don’t seem to be burning like should Check the door seal and latch for a tight fit Check the ash pan for shut tight and latched if all doors seals are good and latched Most pellet stove are negative air (inside of the firebox is. Example, house was 67 when i loaded for the night last night at midnite, put in 5 splits on a good coal bed, got it going, turned the air way down and the stove was cruising at about 600 Woke this am (7:30) to the stove having a few (enough for a relight) coals, and the stove at 200, house at 63 Outside temp was 15, with a little. I will start by saying that i have never spent so much time and effort into something and still lack proper understanding of operation My frustration with this stove has been immeasurable I just bought this stove, without a cat,this year as i moved into a new house, and replaced the old stove. The advantages of having an interior chimney are many Look at the house of yore when people didn't have central heating You won't find many exterior chimneys there Better draft, less cooling of flue gas equalling less creosote, far less heat loss to outdoors and most of it instead radiated to the interior of the house and less deterioration due to weather. My house is approx 2200 sq feet of livable space with the unfinished basement adding another 500 sq feet What size stove might i need Do any of you have one installed in the basement Do you think a pellet stove will put out enough heat to help me I really do not have a spot to install it on the main level of the house. Although if your house is really tight, then you might end up with stale indoor air and have to install an air exchanger anyway Is this one of those kits the pulls the fresh air in around the exhaust flue If so, that would help preheat the air and might get you a little bit more efficiency, too. Anyone watch homestead rescue raneys ranch on discovery channel I was watching it last night and the fathers house had a bit of a chimney fire that got out of hand and they completely lost their cabin on the homestead they have been working on for most of the show for the last few years