What type of central heating system do you have.
Hi all, i have a question about heating an attached garage of a raised ranch. The problem is i heat most of the house with a woodstove and the rooms farthest away and over the garage too get cold. What would you suggest i do? Do i heat the garage which will heat the floors of the rooms or some kind of heat in the rooms. Thanks for any info.
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What type of central heating system do you have.
have to be a lot cheaper to operate with some type of heat in the rooms than trying to heat a garage warm enough to warm floors above.
Oil hot water system.
any chance of running a zone of baseboard up to those rooms??
Zone the rooms over the garage, won't cost as much to heat them, as it would to heat the garage.
You have oil hot water and you heat with a wood stove ??
Have you seen the cost of oil lately.Originally posted by pjs
You have oil hot water and you heat with a wood stove ??
I'm using my electric heaters instead of my oil right now, its cheaper. 2.70 a gal last deliverly.
Yeh, I hear ya but wood stove.
Dirty, dangerous and inefficient [ when you figure all the work involved in keeping it stocked and maintaining it.
And Completely antiquated isn't that going in reverse from central heating to a wood stove.
My point is the h.o should be told to put their money into windows, weatherization tightening up the house, adding insulation and zoning.
My bedrooms and living room were on the same split loop. I seperated the bedrooms onto their own zone with a thermostat in the master BR. Now I can run my wood stove and just run the boiler to heat up those bedrooms in the evening. No sense in heating the the garage if you're not working out there. Yo might want to insulate the garage ceiling to help keep the cold from migrating into those rooms.
The problem with rooms over unheated garages is air infiltration. Fiberglass batt insulation (if there is any)is ineffective against cold air from the garage. If you have kneewalls in the bonus room, this is another source of infiltration. By drilling holes and packing cellulose in the garage ceiling, this will cut off air flow. In the case of kneewalls, insulating under the roof plane with foam, or using foam chutes and cellulose and cutting off the eve air vents will do the job. This will also save energy, unlike adding more HVAC horsepower in that area.
BingoOriginally posted by uktra
The problem with rooms over unheated garages is air infiltration. Fiberglass batt insulation (if there is any)is ineffective against cold air from the garage. If you have kneewalls in the bonus room, this is another source of infiltration. By drilling holes and packing cellulose in the garage ceiling, this will cut off air flow. In the case of kneewalls, insulating under the roof plane with foam, or using foam chutes and cellulose and cutting off the eve air vents will do the job. This will also save energy, unlike adding more HVAC horsepower in that area.
two good responses
see how easy that was
I also agree, I would also consider some sort of foam like the pink or blue styrofoam panels. I think they are like 4' x 8' and just resurface or laminate them to the garage roof, you'll only lose a couple of inches. Its a one time expense that will be the gift that keeps on giving.
The amount of wasted heat from a wood stove varies with the quality of its design.
I'd get a pellet stove before wood or coal. JMO.
Still going in reverse, don't know about you but we are in the central heating business.
Wood burners, coal, and kerosene are all old crap and going in reverse in my estimation, unless you're a backwoodsman.
If oil and gas heating prices keep going up, we'll have to become backwoodsmen again!
At least wood is a renewable resource. I'd rather we re-seed the forests for fuel then build housing developments over every inch of open land so we we can let more of the 3rd world into this country.
i wish I had a wood stove right about now. every time i hear the inducer start up in the basement, i grimmace!Originally posted by pjs
You have oil hot water and you heat with a wood stove ??
Yeh:Originally posted by jeep79
i wish I had a wood stove right about now. every time i hear the inducer start up in the basement, i grimmace!Originally posted by pjs
You have oil hot water and you heat with a wood stove ??
I hear ya,
Its called HEAT loss
Add Insulation, !!!...and cut down on your Infiltration Rate, by weatherproofing...
then you won't hear the inducer soo much
At 2.70 a gal, I'll glady move to the woods, and be a back woodsman.Originally posted by pjs
Still going in reverse, don't know about you but we are in the central heating business.
Wood burners, coal, and kerosene are all old crap and going in reverse in my estimation, unless you're a backwoodsman.
Our heatpump sales have incresed since the gas, and oil prices went up, and more duel fuel request are also coming in.
Originally posted by pjs
Yeh:Originally posted by jeep79
i wish I had a wood stove right about now. every time i hear the inducer start up in the basement, i grimmace!Originally posted by pjs
You have oil hot water and you heat with a wood stove ??
I hear ya,
Its called HEAT loss
Add Insulation, !!!...and cut down on your Infiltration Rate, by weatherproofing...
then you won't hear the inducer soo much
doesnt matter.....i just spent the last week or so blowing all my walls with insulation (100 yr old home), and insulated the attic last winter. its alot better, but with a 100 year old house, theres only so many things you can do. besides that, if my furnace only came on once an hour, i would still hate it.