John White
Gold Member
I have had the furnace checked out and it checks ok. This is the second house we have had a 95% efficient furnace and never liked the other one either. In our previous house when I built it (I was a lot younger then) I put a good size wood burning furnace in the basement and run the triple 8" pipe right up through our bedroom floor in side the closet. Left closet door open all the time when burning wood and it would heat the house fairly well, especially the bed room . Then as I got older and got tired of cutting wood and hauling it and the mess, I put in a large pellet stove. It worked pretty well but not the heat the wood stove put out. When I built the latest house my wife said she didn't want a pellet stove either, because it stirred up too much dust when cleaning it. If I do put one in from all the advice here looks like I will have to run the pipe out some way. To be honest I think I am loosing a lot of heat through the duct work. I did not run insulated duct work because I wanted to keep the basement some what warm because that is where my wife does the laundry, ironing and we have a shower down there and we use it rather than the one in the bathroom. So I am sure I am loosening a lot of heat through the duct work.