My Pleasant Heath Stove is FINALLY INSTALLED!

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Mercury220

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May 27, 2010
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Wilmington, DE
So I decided to have the pros install my stove as I've been way too anxious and didn't want to run into any problems. They just finished the install last night. My lit 3 small fires to allow the paint to cure. My whole house filled up with smoke from the paint curing. I opened some windows and put a fan out. After about 5 hours of burning, the paint smoke faded.

As I am still breaking the stove in, I have only burned small logs.

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Looks really good.
 
Mercury220

Congratulations on your new stove. Looks nice....


Fredo
 
I like that. Real clean and simple.
 
Congrats looks great Merc enjoy the heat!

Ray
 
Now you have to get a nice pair of recliners, kick back and bask in the heat and send us another picture!

Nice, clean install!
 
Very nice looking install. Is it in a position that it will be able to heat your whole house? It'll be nice to not pay to have those radiators get hot.
 
You will get a little of that paintcuring smell with each new record high temp. Usually by the end of the first season, you'll be done with that.

Looks like a nice setup. You will enjoy it!

Green wood will make it hard to get things hot. What is your firewood like? When was it split and stacked?

-SF
 
Burning some year and a half old cherry and oak. I get it from my Father's friend's farm. It was in a giant pile
 
Very clean looking set-up. You'll be loving it when the winter winds are blowing and you are toasty warm. As a second year burner in a snowy area, my tip would be keep that wood dry. Stack up a nice amount indoors or under some overhang from your house. Nothing is worse than tromping through the snow with wet wood. Not only is it cold, but hearing that steam as the snow melts will bother you. You want all that energy converted to warmth. The paint curing thing will be beyond you more or less pretty quickly. As the temps rise higher, you always smell a little bit from the pipe in my experience, but nothing like the first fires.
 
If thats the smalllest of those stoves, I have the same one, when starting the fire, I open the door a bit until it gets going pretty good, and then close the door and open the air all the way, since the fire box is small, I cut the wood to about 8 inches long, and put it in back to front. I fit more in, and it gets pretty hot, its at 550 now on stove top. i love it for what I paid ffor the thing (500 bucks). Good luck!
 
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