I cut air registers on the first and second story floors in specific rooms to evenly disperse the rising heat around the house with no fans. And my stove is in the basement as well.
I thought about getting a couple of these vents amzn.to/3FhnL1w to help even out the heat in the house a little more. They have 10 different settings and are thermostatically controlled but they are electric.
@@portercreek I've never seen those before they look pretty cool. I just kept it simple and stupid and made holes covered in floor registers and it has made a huge difference for my family.
@@jusinburton5286 I have a couple spots where I could put some holes and cover with a register so I’ll have to give it a go. If I need more movement I can put the power vents in later. Thanks for the tip! Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel!
Just turn on the fan switch on your furnace T-stat keep the temp set low so furnace burner only comes on when wood stove isn’t keeping up. Just have to change furnace filter a little more. The air will be cleaner, and all rooms evenly heated!
Warm air rises. Perfect for split foyer houses. Also great for cold slab basements, because hot goes to cold, so heat will actually be drawn to the floor to warm it.
Thank you! I’ve been trying to convince my spouse with a wood stove in the basement since there used to be one in our house. I always wanted one in case of emergency especially nowadays where it’s hard to find somebody that can come and fix your furnace if it blows out or long power outages on a terrible snow storm. I just don’t want to panic when those terrible scenarios happens
Change the light above woodburner out for ceiling fan. Helps massively on mixing the air across the basement. Second I got adjustable thermostat receptical plug and run a secondary blower off it on the side of my ductwork to pull heat upstairs. I put a louver cover on the box so that in the summer when the ac furnace kicks on it closes to the basement from the positive pressure in the ductwork.
I also heat my whole house with wood from the basement. I put a cold air return in the room the stove is in and run the the furnace blower. Heat gets to every room
We leave our furnace fan on 24/7 365 days a year but because it is newer it moves a very small amount of air so I flipped the A/C breaker to the off position and turned the thermostat on A/C which causes the furnace fan to spin faster and move more air. This made a big difference in keeping all the rooms closer in temp. Also opened up the returns downstairs and plugged a couple up stairs to create a negative pressure in the basement which helps pull all the cool air from upstairs. I posted a video on it yesterday. Thanks for commenting, please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
I'm in the process of putting a wood stove in my basement as that is really the only viable way for me, and this video was helpful. I'm glad you also addressed the fresh air intake, as I was not sure if it's doable for a basement install because the pipe has to go up. But looks like it's working great for you. I don't like having appliances suck air outside as it forces cold air in the house from any cracks etc. Ideally you don't want a negative pressure house. thinking of switching my water heater to an electric one too as per watt of power going into the water the electric one might actually be cheaper now since the gas prices doubled. I like the idea of the heat exchanger too to try to bring the water temp up.
The basement definitely is warmer than the rest of the house with our 4 season living room being the coldest. Unless you have solar set up at your place I think, at least around here, heating with gas is still cheaper because our electric has gone up too. I am hoping to have a video of the water heater set up next week.
My house has paid for, ground mounted solar panels. i also switched to an 80 gallon electric water heater (which they stopped making this year, due to its inefficiencies) but, i wanted simplicity, i didnt want the heat pump hot water heaters for various reasons. I have a 2 story, 2300 sq ft colonial house, with a US stove 2500-ble wood stove in the basement. i admittedly dont have any intake air, but havent noticed any cold drafts in the house. i will say my house definitely has negative pressure. this is my first winter, but so far it has kept the house snuggly warm in 15* weather. my temps on a cold day, with the woodstove burning modestly is: basement 80-85 1st floor 70-73 2nd fl 64-67 lastly, because we oversized out solar panels. i just put a small cheap electric space heater in each of the upstairs bedrooms. its a little ghetto, sure. but its over $1000 a month to heat my house with heating oil...and i love the comfort of the woodstove in the basement.
Here is the video with my side Arm thermal siphoning water heater How I hooked up my water heater to my wood stove th-cam.com/video/K4C4Uk6bKV0/w-d-xo.html
@@lukesmith251 I am hoping to do solar in the next year or 2! Hoping they come out with better incentives! Thanks for commenting, please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
That is a good idea! My furnace is only a few feet from the wood stove and there is a return vent right on the duct which really helps. You may consider a fan like this amzn.to/3USmi7c I have a few in the 6” size and they are super quiet for the amount of air they move
Just turn on the fan switch on your furnace T stat, leave temp set low so burner doesn’t come on, Change furnace filter more, cleaner air, and even heat through out!
I had a friend growing up that had a two-story log cabin with a basement. They had a big wood heater in the basement and vents cut into the floors so that the heat could rise. That heater kept the whole house warm and that’s the only heat they had.
The @@portercreek it rarely gets in the teens here and almost never does it drop to single digits. I’m hoping I can heat my house I’m building with only wood. We shall see!
Whether you've got good draft or not depends on many factors. Your exhaust pipe isn't ideal but it works whereas another place it may not. Excellent hot water ideas. Perhaps 1 or 2 in the stove pipe heat exchangers could squeak even more heat out of that stove
Good video. I'll try bringing fresh air in like you did. Maybe I need better positive pressure. I'm not happy with what I'm getting upstairs so far. (This is my first time running a wood stove for heat.)
Do you have your wood stove in the basement? I hung a fan behind my wood stove and pointed it towards and other fan that was blowing towards the stairs and that helped significantly. My wood stove is kind of around a corner to the stairs. Outing a fan upstairs blowing across the floor towards the stairs helped but not as much as blowing the heat toward the stairs. Once the heat gets to the stairs I let the hot air rising effect do the rest. Also we keep our furnace fan on all year round to help even out the temp.
@@portercreek The house is a ranch and the wood stove in the basement is at the opposite end of where the stairway is. I didn't try the fan location you suggested yet but will. I thought blowing cool air along the floor was supposed to be better than pulling warm air, then letting it rise up the stairway. I noticed a draft by the interior door befor the bulkead door and sillplate which makes me think I'm pulling in too much cool air. Thanks for your helpful reply.
@@45Unit generally it is easier to move cool air but if the hot air is on the opposite end it needs to get moved so it can get the opportunity to rise. I was told over and over to do the fan upstairs and not downstairs but I had to try something because the basement was 10+ degrees warmer than upstairs and the kids were not happy about how hot it was down there in their rooms. The 2 fans working in tandem in the basement provided the greatest improvements.
The previous owner had a wood stove but I had removed it because it was falling apart and the pipe was only a couple inches away from the floor joists😳
@@anonymous971 no oil based paint has been used on the soffits so we are good to go there. There was a “transition” piece they had for going through combustible soffits but it looked really tacky so I opted to go this route instead.
@@portercreek Should be good then. If you are extra cautious you could put a torch to the scrap soffit piece and see what happens. The only other thing I would wonder about is during a worst case situation with a chimney fire and excessive heat build up inside the soffit. Does the transition piece give another layer of protection through the entire soffit area or just the pass through area.
@@anonymous971 the adapter piece is a flat piece that is basically a metal grommet that goes around the pipe, there is no shrilling that it provides. The space above(soffit cavity) it has 6-8” of clearance all the way around to the nearest combustible surface.
I noticed that your pipe fits tight coming out of the stove , I was trying to hook my pipe up and bought the 6" and if you try to put the pipe in like you should and the way you do with the crimp being down it goes all the way through to the fiber board but if I turn it around it fits on the small lip on the inside nipple coming out of the stove , so do I need to buy some kind of adapter or sealer for the pipe? I hope it makes sense.
No adapter should be needed. I put a stove in at our hunting shack and i used a different 6” black pipe and didn’t fit in the hole, it was slightly larger so I had to modify it to make it fit. Idk if the stove manufacturers vary that much in the diameter of the hole they use or if it’s the piping. You could use double wall pipe to solve that issue but I don’t like using double wall inside if I don’t have to. I only like using it if I need to for clearances to combustible surfaces.
Researching my basement stove now and I'm reading that your cold air intake can not hit fresh air above the elevation of your stove. This seems to be agreed on across all publications and specifications for various stoves. Have you had any issues with your set up?
Use a radiator instead of a coil. It has a blow off valve at 15 psi. And is product designed to exchange heat. Go to pick a pull junkyard on radiator days and get one for 30.00 Lot cheaper than copper coil😎
The water loop is hooked up to my plumbing which is running at 50 psi. I don’t think the car radiator is capable of handling that kind of psi. Thanks for commenting, please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
Heat exchanger “Heat exchangers are used to transfer heat from one medium to another. These media may be a gas, liquid, or a combination of both. The media may be separated by a solid wall to prevent mixing or may be in direct contact.”
How tall are your ceilings? I was looking at a stove and it said I need 8’ ceilings but then measured my clearances and am still good? And Input thanks?
My ceilings are 7’6”. I used double wall for the elbows band the horizontal pipe so I could meet the setbacks. I bought all my pipe in individual pieces at Menards.
@@connorlinnenbrink6617 I don’t recall what it is called, if you have a Menards near by they have a flyer in the isle with all their wood stove supplies that has all the pieces you would need for all the different configurations. It is very handy!!
I cut air registers on the first and second story floors in specific rooms to evenly disperse the rising heat around the house with no fans. And my stove is in the basement as well.
I thought about getting a couple of these vents amzn.to/3FhnL1w to help even out the heat in the house a little more. They have 10 different settings and are thermostatically controlled but they are electric.
@@portercreek I've never seen those before they look pretty cool. I just kept it simple and stupid and made holes covered in floor registers and it has made a huge difference for my family.
@@jusinburton5286 I have a couple spots where I could put some holes and cover with a register so I’ll have to give it a go. If I need more movement I can put the power vents in later.
Thanks for the tip! Don’t forget to subscribe to my channel!
Just turn on the fan switch on your furnace T-stat keep the temp set low so furnace burner only comes on when wood stove isn’t keeping up. Just have to change furnace filter a little more. The air will be cleaner, and all rooms evenly heated!
Warm air rises. Perfect for split foyer houses. Also great for cold slab basements, because hot goes to cold, so heat will actually be drawn to the floor to warm it.
👍🏻
Thank you! I’ve been trying to convince my spouse with a wood stove in the basement since there used to be one in our house. I always wanted one in case of emergency especially nowadays where it’s hard to find somebody that can come and fix your furnace if it blows out or long power outages on a terrible snow storm. I just don’t want to panic when those terrible scenarios happens
And yes I just subscribed ❤
There is an old saying, “if you have 1 you have none, if you have 2 you have 1”. This is even applicable to heat sources!
Change the light above woodburner out for ceiling fan. Helps massively on mixing the air across the basement. Second I got adjustable thermostat receptical plug and run a secondary blower off it on the side of my ductwork to pull heat upstairs. I put a louver cover on the box so that in the summer when the ac furnace kicks on it closes to the basement from the positive pressure in the ductwork.
That’s a good idea, thanks for the tip! Please hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already!
Yup had one as well hot air rises heats upstairs floors
I also heat my whole house with wood from the basement. I put a cold air return in the room the stove is in and run the the furnace blower. Heat gets to every room
We leave our furnace fan on 24/7 365 days a year but because it is newer it moves a very small amount of air so I flipped the A/C breaker to the off position and turned the thermostat on A/C which causes the furnace fan to spin faster and move more air. This made a big difference in keeping all the rooms closer in temp. Also opened up the returns downstairs and plugged a couple up stairs to create a negative pressure in the basement which helps pull all the cool air from upstairs. I posted a video on it yesterday.
Thanks for commenting, please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
I'm in the process of putting a wood stove in my basement as that is really the only viable way for me, and this video was helpful. I'm glad you also addressed the fresh air intake, as I was not sure if it's doable for a basement install because the pipe has to go up. But looks like it's working great for you. I don't like having appliances suck air outside as it forces cold air in the house from any cracks etc. Ideally you don't want a negative pressure house. thinking of switching my water heater to an electric one too as per watt of power going into the water the electric one might actually be cheaper now since the gas prices doubled. I like the idea of the heat exchanger too to try to bring the water temp up.
The basement definitely is warmer than the rest of the house with our 4 season living room being the coldest. Unless you have solar set up at your place I think, at least around here, heating with gas is still cheaper because our electric has gone up too.
I am hoping to have a video of the water heater set up next week.
My house has paid for, ground mounted solar panels. i also switched to an 80 gallon electric water heater (which they stopped making this year, due to its inefficiencies) but, i wanted simplicity, i didnt want the heat pump hot water heaters for various reasons.
I have a 2 story, 2300 sq ft colonial house, with a US stove 2500-ble wood stove in the basement. i admittedly dont have any intake air, but havent noticed any cold drafts in the house. i will say my house definitely has negative pressure. this is my first winter, but so far it has kept the house snuggly warm in 15* weather. my temps on a cold day, with the woodstove burning modestly is:
basement 80-85
1st floor 70-73
2nd fl 64-67
lastly, because we oversized out solar panels. i just put a small cheap electric space heater in each of the upstairs bedrooms. its a little ghetto, sure. but its over $1000 a month to heat my house with heating oil...and i love the comfort of the woodstove in the basement.
Here is the video with my side Arm thermal siphoning water heater How I hooked up my water heater to my wood stove
th-cam.com/video/K4C4Uk6bKV0/w-d-xo.html
@@lukesmith251 I am hoping to do solar in the next year or 2! Hoping they come out with better incentives!
Thanks for commenting, please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
I used a 180 cfm bathroom fan to force air up through the floor it helped a lot if you can stand the noise
That is a good idea! My furnace is only a few feet from the wood stove and there is a return vent right on the duct which really helps.
You may consider a fan like this amzn.to/3USmi7c I have a few in the 6” size and they are super quiet for the amount of air they move
Thanks for commenting! Please don’t forget to subscribe to my channel!
Just turn on the fan switch on your furnace T stat, leave temp set low so burner doesn’t come on, Change furnace filter more, cleaner air, and even heat through out!
@@rockylittlelegs1662 thanks for commenting, please hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already!
I had a friend growing up that had a two-story log cabin with a basement. They had a big wood heater in the basement and vents cut into the floors so that the heat could rise. That heater kept the whole house warm and that’s the only heat they had.
It does a good job keeping our house warm until temps get below 0 degrees F the. She starts to struggle a bit
The @@portercreek it rarely gets in the teens here and almost never does it drop to single digits. I’m hoping I can heat my house I’m building with only wood. We shall see!
Whether you've got good draft or not depends on many factors. Your exhaust pipe isn't ideal but it works whereas another place it may not. Excellent hot water ideas. Perhaps 1 or 2 in the stove pipe heat exchangers could squeak even more heat out of that stove
Thanks for the idea! Please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already!
I live in a 38 x 24 bungalow style home. I have a drolet escape 2100 in the basement and it heats the entire hkuse no problem.
I drolet would be a nice upgrade!
Good video. I'll try bringing fresh air in like you did. Maybe I need better positive pressure. I'm not happy with what I'm getting upstairs so far. (This is my first time running a wood stove for heat.)
Do you have your wood stove in the basement? I hung a fan behind my wood stove and pointed it towards and other fan that was blowing towards the stairs and that helped significantly. My wood stove is kind of around a corner to the stairs. Outing a fan upstairs blowing across the floor towards the stairs helped but not as much as blowing the heat toward the stairs. Once the heat gets to the stairs I let the hot air rising effect do the rest. Also we keep our furnace fan on all year round to help even out the temp.
Thanks for commenting! Please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
@@portercreek The house is a ranch and the wood stove in the basement is at the opposite end of where the stairway is. I didn't try the fan location you suggested yet but will. I thought blowing cool air along the floor was supposed to be better than pulling warm air, then letting it rise up the stairway. I noticed a draft by the interior door befor the bulkead door and sillplate which makes me think I'm pulling in too much cool air.
Thanks for your helpful reply.
@@45Unit generally it is easier to move cool air but if the hot air is on the opposite end it needs to get moved so it can get the opportunity to rise. I was told over and over to do the fan upstairs and not downstairs but I had to try something because the basement was 10+ degrees warmer than upstairs and the kids were not happy about how hot it was down there in their rooms. The 2 fans working in tandem in the basement provided the greatest improvements.
Thanks 👍😎
No prob!
I think it's the best way to heat a house put some floor vents on all the floors heat rises...
👍🏻
What is with the concrete on top of the pipe on the outside? Did you put the hole in too high originally and have to patch it?
The previous owner had a wood stove but I had removed it because it was falling apart and the pipe was only a couple inches away from the floor joists😳
Stovepipe is touching the soffit, what is the clearance to combustibles for that pipe?
The clearance to combustibles is 2”
The soffit is metal, a non combustible material.
@@portercreek Good to hear, as long as the paint on the metal soffit is not oil-based paint which is combustable.
@@anonymous971 no oil based paint has been used on the soffits so we are good to go there.
There was a “transition” piece they had for going through combustible soffits but it looked really tacky so I opted to go this route instead.
@@portercreek Should be good then. If you are extra cautious you could put a torch to the scrap soffit piece and see what happens. The only other thing I would wonder about is during a worst case situation with a chimney fire and excessive heat build up inside the soffit. Does the transition piece give another layer of protection through the entire soffit area or just the pass through area.
@@anonymous971 the adapter piece is a flat piece that is basically a metal grommet that goes around the pipe, there is no shrilling that it provides. The space above(soffit cavity) it has 6-8” of clearance all the way around to the nearest combustible surface.
I noticed that your pipe fits tight coming out of the stove , I was trying to hook my pipe up and bought the 6" and if you try to put the pipe in like you should and the way you do with the crimp being down it goes all the way through to the fiber board but if I turn it around it fits on the small lip on the inside nipple coming out of the stove , so do I need to buy some kind of adapter or sealer for the pipe? I hope it makes sense.
No adapter should be needed. I put a stove in at our hunting shack and i used a different 6” black pipe and didn’t fit in the hole, it was slightly larger so I had to modify it to make it fit. Idk if the stove manufacturers vary that much in the diameter of the hole they use or if it’s the piping.
You could use double wall pipe to solve that issue but I don’t like using double wall inside if I don’t have to. I only like using it if I need to for clearances to combustible surfaces.
Maybe try a pipe like this, it has the step out right above the crimping on the end. This should prevent it from dropping in too far.
amzn.to/3v2LP2f
@@portercreek good deal ,I'll look into it , thanks a bushel for your reply 👍.
Researching my basement stove now and I'm reading that your cold air intake can not hit fresh air above the elevation of your stove. This seems to be agreed on across all publications and specifications for various stoves. Have you had any issues with your set up?
I haven’t had any issues with my set up, I’m not sure why that would be.
Isn't the clean out at the bottom of the outdoor 90 there on the bottom of the 90 gonna be hard to access in the new window well?
I will be able to remove the cap on the bottom without trouble and then I will sweep from the top down
My questions are, what is the diameter of the stainless pipe and cost? Thanks
6” pipe and I paid $72 per section
Thank you. They certainly don’t give it away 👋
@@stevegranger5559 I was quoted $500 a 3’ section from a local installer so when I saw it for $72 at Menards I was pretty thrilled!
Use a radiator instead of a coil. It has a blow off valve at 15 psi. And is product designed to exchange heat.
Go to pick a pull junkyard on radiator days and get one for 30.00
Lot cheaper than copper coil😎
The water loop is hooked up to my plumbing which is running at 50 psi. I don’t think the car radiator is capable of handling that kind of psi.
Thanks for commenting, please don’t forget to hit that subscribe button!
What size is that stove? How much BTU?
It says it is capable of heating 3200sqft and is 152,000 btus but I think that’s a stretch!
Which model stove is in your basement?
Vogelzang 3200
heat exchanger "small pipe inside larger vent pipe with a fan on the bottom"
Heat exchanger “Heat exchangers are used to transfer heat from one medium to another. These media may be a gas, liquid, or a combination of both. The media may be separated by a solid wall to prevent mixing or may be in direct contact.”
Did your house ever burn down?
Why would it
How tall are your ceilings? I was looking at a stove and it said I need 8’ ceilings but then measured my clearances and am still good? And Input thanks?
Also what pipe kit did you buy?
My ceilings are 7’6”. I used double wall for the elbows band the horizontal pipe so I could meet the setbacks. I bought all my pipe in individual pieces at Menards.
@@portercreek oh ok thanks what the piece called that connects from the block , that silver circle to black circle? Did you get that from Menards to?
@@connorlinnenbrink6617 I don’t recall what it is called, if you have a Menards near by they have a flyer in the isle with all their wood stove supplies that has all the pieces you would need for all the different configurations. It is very handy!!
@@connorlinnenbrink6617 I found it online
hw.menardc.com/main/items/media/SELKI001/Install_Instruct/combinedInstallationinstructionswarrantylowres.pdf
why can’t you connect into your ducking system???
Are you talking about connecting my stove to my hvac ducting? My stove doesn’t have the connections for it
@@portercreek yeah , seems like it would heat up the house way faster just put one of those filters that block ambers and ashes and large particulars.