I Can't Get House Temperature Above 65 F

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Thu. Jan. 01, 2009 9:22 pm

northernmaine wrote:The heat from the stove goes into the cold air return of the fha furnace, a switch on the hyfire plenum tells the fha blower to turn on (or off) depending on how hot the stove is

Do you have this just cut into the cold air with the furnace still drawing cold air through the ducts and into the furnace? If so it may be drawing air right past where the stove is hooked in and not drawing much air across the body of the stove. If you have it like this break the cold air before the stove and block the duct right before the stove. That way all of the air is drawn over the stove and it will be able to come from the house and fall into the basement and be drawn into the stove. Ideally it should be attached to the intake for the stove.

WNY · Post by **WNY** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 6:13 am

YOu can keep raising the MAX until you are almost pushing hot coal off, then back it back a couple points.

Also, do you have Heat Jacket installed? Or just a hole in the stop ? Do you have a pic of your setup?

Mine does take a while to get the temp raised in our house, I know I keep it about 68, so it not's running full blast all the time, if I go any higher, that is a good setpoint for us. It can cycle up/down to maintain it at that setpoint. If I go higher, it will just keep running and the FR (Feed rate) will be like 95%.

choyt002 · Post by **choyt002** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 8:15 am

I have browsed your post I may have missed it but have you mentioned if your basement is insulated or not. If not from what I have read the walls will transfer a tremendous amout of heat to the ground (outside) just a thought
Chris H

WNY · Post by **WNY** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 8:29 am

Your house has a lot to do with it, windows, insulation, etc...
My walls are not insulated but about 14" of field stone. but, I have a custom heat jacket around the stove and the floors are all insulated. So 90% of the heat goes upstairs now, with the way I have it designed and plumbed, previously, it was 70+ degrees in the basement, now about 55-60.

northernmaine · Post by **northernmaine** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 9:19 am

I do have a heat jacket around my stove. I've tried to upload a picture without success

. My basement is not well insulated but stays around 60 degrees. Is there anyway to use the cold air intake from the furnace to preheat the air and use it to "wash" the heat off of the stove?

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Fri. Jan. 02, 2009 9:28 am

northernmaine wrote:I do have a heat jacket around my stove. I've tried to upload a picture without success . My basement is not well insulated but stays around 60 degrees. Is there anyway to use the cold air intake from the furnace to preheat the air and use it to "wash" the heat off of the stove?

Yes, take the cold air duct that comes from the house and take it apart before the stove. Now block off the furnace side of that duct you took apart so that all of the cold air has to be drawn through the stove. And a better way would be to connect the house side of that duct you took apart to the jacket on the stove. That way you will not be drawing any basement air into the stove. But just taking apart the cold air duct and blocking off the furnace side to allow the cold air to be drawn through the stove should help greatly.

edit: and remove the factory blowers from the stove!

WNY · Post by **WNY** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 8:16 am

"NorthernMaine" Stove Pics, I had to resize for him...

A few things I noticed, the ductwork is reduced down quite a bit to the furnace, no insulation around the ducts, no way to hook up a cold air return with the stock heat jacket around the stove since its just open on the bottom. I would remove the stock blowers to get more airflow up the back of the stove. Insulate the other ducts and tape up the joints.

Post by **coaledsweat** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 8:31 am

gambler wrote:And a better way would be to connect the house side of that duct you took apart to the jacket on the stove. That way you will not be drawing any basement air into the stove.

This is what you need to do, without it you are fighting a huge loss in air temperature.

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 9:30 am

WNY wrote:A few things I noticed, the ductwork is reduced down quite a bit to the furnace,

Holy chit, you aren't kidding!
What size piping is that? 14" reduced to 8" ? Plus the deadhead reduce is not doing you any favors.
Carry that 14" duct all of the way to the furnace and you will solve a large portion of you problem.

northernmaine · Post by **northernmaine** » Sat. Jan. 03, 2009 10:02 pm

Sounds like some good advice. Looks like I have a few things I need to do to get the heat going where it needs to go. Now if any of you have any advice on my sulphur smell problem (other thread) I would love to get any input.

Post by **coaledsweat** » Sun. Jan. 04, 2009 6:12 pm

northernmaine wrote:Sounds like some good advice. Looks like I have a few things I need to do to get the heat going where it needs to go. Now if any of you have any advice on my sulphur smell problem (other thread) I would love to get any input.

I think if you stop pulling your FHA supply air from the basement, you may loose that smell. Your circulation blower is competing with your chimney and it looks like the blower is winning.

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Sun. Jan. 04, 2009 6:22 pm

coaledsweat wrote:
northernmaine wrote:Sounds like some good advice. Looks like I have a few things I need to do to get the heat going where it needs to go. Now if any of you have any advice on my sulphur smell problem (other thread) I would love to get any input.
I think if you stop pulling your FHA supply air from the basement, you may loose that smell. Your circulation blower is competing with your chimney and it looks like the blower is winning.

I second that!

I Can't Get House Temperature Above 65 F

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