Hi,

My basement stays a little cold ( it's a 'half basement'), and I heat it with a wood stove.

It works OK, and the raised area with the stone walls looks kind of nice. But I'll probably be selling in the next few years (I'm 71), and I wonder if a conversion of some kind is in order. (It's also a lot of work, although I pretty much enjoy it).

Just don't know what to do. The radiated heat is great -- and you have a nice place to go and get warm on brutally cold days.

So, I'd like to come up with a way to get good heat and do something reasonable with the space -- maybe just leave the stove or find something else that would look good in that setting.

I have propane/forced air, and we usually keep it in the low 60's. That's OK upstairs, but it doesn't do it for the basement.

Appreciate any thoughts.

Thanks,

hj

 

a friend of mine built a water box to go on top of his wood stove and piped it to radiators around the house with a small circulation pump. in 9 years his gas furnace only came on 3 times when he was not home and his brother let the fire in the stove go out.

 

Forced air wood burning furnace