MD,

Thanks for the detailed response! (Long time no talk by the way...I'm still alive but my house + work are sucking all my free time).

I did forget to mention that I have a wood stove (1960s) in my finished basement. I have a raised ranch (not my ideal house style-wise but fuctionally it works very well for me). Do you think the heat would rise through the floor/ceiling between the basement and main living floor, or would I need to cut a hole in the floor?

The only issue is that the 'box' of the stove is about ~20" in depth by about 12" in width. I don't think most logs would fit in there, would they?

Chris