![]() ![]() My big issue in the house is humidity in the winter. Probably buy another one when I get the stove installed in the shop to help circulate the heat. ![]() It's 80 bucks not on sale and it's a helluva air mover. If you want good and inexpensive air movers, I suggest you go to Harbor Freight and purchase the red plastic 3 speed air mover. The other advantage of the blower only setting is the furnace air filter traps the dust and dirt generated by the stove (and the 9 cats and the pupper) that are in here, our family basically has 4 legs (except my wife and me).lol If it a particularly cold and windy day (like in January), the central furnace will over rode the blower only setting and come on to help out. My stove (6039-41) running on HR5 (which is mid range on the heat settings) keeps the entire house including the upstairs at a very comfortable 69 degrees. I have the air mover sitting on my wife's curio cabinet so it up off the floor. In the house, the stove is installed in the great room and I keep the central furnace on blower only in the winter and I also use an air mover to push the heat into the other parts of the house. My plan is to install the stove and use an air mover to help circulate the heat and lower my floor temp to 50 degrees. My walls are only R12 but the ceilings are R 50 and it gets COLD here. I have 2 ceiling fans in the shop area that run constantly winter and summer. I keep the entire slab at 65 degrees in the winter but it's still costly to heat so I'm installing the refurb pellet-corn stove in one end of the shop. Then I had the contractor pour an 8" concrete slab on top of that with high density mix. I installed PEX in floor heat (in slab) I should say but I insulated the entire area with pink rigid 4" thick foam sheets (including the rat wall trenches) over a base of tamped sand with steel matting on top and the PEX on standoff's attached to the matting. I took all the into consideration when I built my 40 x 40 shop and garage. Problem with a concrete slab uninsulated floor is it sucks the heat out like a dry sponge soaks up liquid. Lastly, I've wondered if I should just upgrade my mini-ductless split unit since its a 15 SEER, 10,000BTU unit on 110v to a more efficient and higher BTU unit. ![]() Are there any other wood pellet stoves I should consider? It also seems to be reliable and safe with little maintenance requirements.īut there are MANY wood pellet stoves available on the market. It doesn't require much space, and I don't have too much space to sacrifice. I've spent many hours researching on my own and think I've settled on the Castle Serenity Pellet Stove. Quite ridiculous! The space is 20'x20', with 16' ceilings, and I think a wood pellet stove would be the solution I need. Last winter, I believe my mini-ductless split unit caused my electric bills to spike $300-$500 a month. I pretty much spend my entire days in here. At the time when I installed the mini-ductless split, I didn't plan on being in the garage as often as I am now. It just has cement and then tile laid on top. I have insulated the garage, and I have a mini-ductless split unit that puts out both heat and AC (15 SEER rating). I am now permanently working from home and have made my detached garage space my home office. ![]()
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