I'm just about ready to fire up our new GlowBoy stove, it will replace our SnowFlame 2100 style stove. Reason I'm switching is it was cheaper to go with the GlowBoy for negative pressure and burn pellets than to update the 2100 to burn pellets (its a positive pressure stove)



So my thoughts turn to what is to become of the perfectly good 2100? I like it a lot, its been nothing but good to us, but with the price of corn vs pellets, and the slightly higher btu output of the GlowBoy it has to go.

But what about putting it in the basement? We don't exactly have a finished basement, but its not bad either. Decent place for the kids to play without worrying about breaking something. This kit (bottom of the page) looks like it is intended to run room air for combustion and just powervent the exhaust, as well as converting it to multifuel. $250 doesn't seem bad to make something I already have heat a space I also already have?

www.spartacoop.com./product-category.php?id=114

link to spartacoop 2100 conversion and parts


In other news.....
The LDJ style furnace finished burning its last load of pellets at 2 AM Saturday by the way.
I did a lot more research and comparison, and it just didn't have the BTU rating this house needs. The fellow doing the Geothermal install calculated our needs and there was just no way 100,000 BTUs were going to be adequate; we needed at LEAST 150,000 BTUs. I was asking the poor thing to do something it just wasn't up to.
My next step is removing it, it will be ready to load up soon for whoever its next owner will be. Shoot me an offer if you are interested.

Using FoolOil till that tank is gone, hopefully it lasts the season. 250 gallons for 2 weeks in Feb and all of March, some of April.....might make it.

I would spend the $ for the kit. It could just sit idle until you need to heat the basement. Or, you could run it all the time and and take the chill off the floors upstairs (if they are cold like mine).

I have a 7100 with the sparta kit in my basement, I really like a warm basement it makes the whole house easy to heat. Don't forget when burning indoor air there is a chance of messing up the natural draft of other fires in the basement like a water heater.