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Apparently *nobody* makes an insert that will work with this fireplace without taking a sawzall to it. So a woodstove is out of the question. I guess we'll take that money and invest in radiant floor heat on the main floor.
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Kw... if your intention was to heat the entire house in the winter or just for power outages, you need something to use that the heat will rise to all the rooms by gravity. The only way to really do this is an add on wood furnace in your basement hooked up to your existing duct work and it will heat basement and all in any power outage by gravity, but it does have 3 speed blower anyway. Look into Energy King wood indoor furnace. I sold my insert for this wonderful thing. It cost me 2400 for the furnace and 300 bux for the 6" ss liner up the flue. I load it once a day, 2 times max.
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The Energy King sure looks like it would heat the house but locating it would be a major problem. It wouldn't fit in our mechanical room and getting a chimney in there would take an act of God anyway. It might be possible to fit a water-to-air heat exchanger in the air handler and remote locate a wood burning water heating appliance but those exterior wood burning furnaces make way too much smoke as they heat up and cool down. I've pretty much gone full circle with this whole house auxiliary heat issue and keep coming back to a BIG diesel generator that will provide enough oomph to start and run our heat pump during outages. That or a major construction job to rip out our two fireplaces and surrounds and rebuild them with woodburning stoves in mind. Either way it's too much money.
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Kw...I tied in the Energy King wood furnace on the back side of the existing masonry fireplace in the basement. I wasn't using it anyway and it is now just for looks. If you could possibly tie into that flue, you would be set.
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Nosteiner, the chimney sort of runs up the center of the house. On the main and upper floors the backside of the flue is in bedrooms and the backside in the basement is electrical panels. It's probably possible to put it somewhere in the basement and run a new flue up the side of the house but we don't want the EK or something similar in finished space. Instead we'll put the money into radiant floor heat on the main floor and see how much that helps during outages. If we could keep the house above 60 with no power we'd be happy.
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Not sure about your particular use but customer service at Quadra-Fire is terrible. Rheostat went out when unit was new and have been dealing unsuccessfully with them for over one year. Wouldn't recommend brand.
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I bought one of these from ChimneyHeaters.com . I installed and it works fine. Heats my 2000 square foot house. I have the pump connected to a UPS but I am not sure how long the pump will run if the electric goes out. I had it installed all winter and did not have to turn on my Electric heat once which saved me about 200 euro a month here in Romania.
The Electric is not stable here so I had to rush to take out the fire a couple of times because the water pump had stopped and the pressure valves were going off. The UPS will solve that but I dont know how long a UPS will keep my central pump going. I will attach a pic of what chimney heaters are in case you are not familiar with them. The pump is a Grundfos and has three speeds.
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