Help Needed in Maine, Harman SF 150

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Aug. 23, 2011 5:16 pm

I shut down the back for the winter( that door at the end of the country kitchen) that's where my wood beast is

& that leaves me about 2000 sq with upstairs front--the house stays at 72* even in the coldest weather--new windows, insulated pretty well & a kick ass Hitzer 50-93 all do the job

I suspect the ceiling fan does more then either archway fan.

coalnewbie · Post by **coalnewbie** » Tue. Aug. 23, 2011 6:06 pm

My mother in law had an appt upstairs but she is in Florida now (thank God). I put bags of shavings from the barn in all the windows and doors - wonder what the R value is but it works great. The whole North facing wall is lined with shavings too. In the spring out they come and use them for what they were intended. Doesn't look pretty but no one is there. Damn, have I just give away my high tech insulation secret of how two Pocos can easily heat a 7000sq ft house that is poorly insulated. What is more, it is only 55F up there on really cold days. Well after being told a trade secrete of house air fitration being a bath towel over the fan intake I had to try to keep up.

freetown fred · Post by **freetown fred** » Tue. Aug. 23, 2011 7:45 pm

You need to get back to Freetown more often & stay in touch with all this stuff.

A friend over one of these here hills put up a house & insulated it with straw--the code guy (*censored*) shut them down until they got a lawyer involved--don't mess with a tree hugger when it comes to insulation--I know they make more $$$ with thier sheep farm then I do with the horses--hence the lawyer

coalnewbie · Post by **coalnewbie** » Tue. Aug. 23, 2011 8:09 pm

Love those NY sheep farmers:

http://www.catskill-merino.com/images/gallery/w50 ... .11.52.jpg

Lunch, yummy.

rberq · Post by **rberq** » Tue. Aug. 23, 2011 8:27 pm

nortcan wrote:Silent fan is a good thing.

It would be good if it were silent. I had two of those "doorway" fans with their standard metal mounting brackets screwed to the door frames. The vibration of the fans was transmitted to the wood and it was unpleasantly loud, causing my wife to make unpleasant loud noises. Neither one moved enough air to be useful.

I used one fan to blow directly on the side of my stove last year, and I hung it with light clothesline from a bracket and that made it a lot quieter. I noticed in the stove store where they had a demo fan, that they hung it with string near the top of the door frame.

dbjc364 · Post by **dbjc364** » Thu. Oct. 27, 2011 6:40 am

We almost bought one of these units,but got a good deal on the used Harman furnace instead. Ok, spending roughly $400 the 1st year, we insulated the cellar/crawl space area with Radiant Barrier studded with the required air gap. Since we already have register vents in the floors from the old forced air heat of oil,the heated cellar air comes up easily. We were already stripping the nasty carpets out,so its wood floors,and they are toasty warm,but with large and small area rugs. So it surely is about air circulation, insulation.Since we live in windy alley right across from the mountains-we empty our ashes in the cellar but if a family member was sleeping down there we wouldn't. I also have cheesecloth on the registers for filters,inexspensive. I just buy a couple big packages and cut to fit.