blaze king says the king is to big for my 2600 sq foot house

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sheeplenot

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Jan 24, 2012
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northern utah
I Know you guys get sick of the stove sizing questions but I am going to ask any how. :shut: .I emailed blaze king and they thought I should go with the princess because the room it will go in is only 400 sq feet.What do you guys think?
My house is a 2008 spec built home(insulated to code no better). I'm on propane but use a pellet stove to heat my house and a electric hybrid water heater for water. The main level of the house is 1500 sq feet the upstairs is 1150sq ft. and a unfinished unheated 1500 sq ft basement. The stove will go in a 12X34 ft room. The room has 4 big windows (6'X4') and a single door on one end and a double door buy the stairs to the second floor. the ceiling is 10'.
 

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What do you want keeping your house warm? The KING or the princess?

Seriously, I don't think anyone ever regretted buying too big of a stove.

It will probably be 90-ish in that sitting area but that's not a bad thing right?
 
90* would be to hot for me to be comfortable. I would like to use the wood stove for most of my heat and the pellet stove just to keep the tv room nice.The long burn times of the king realy draw me in but if the room will be smokin hot I will back down to the princess or maybe get the stove the wife wants (woodstock progressive.)
 
The King will be fine.
Pretty much same layout as my house.
1400 down..1100 up.
My family room is 27x 16(stove room) and takes up the end of the house like where you plan to put yours. 432sf.

That layout will move heat around more then you think it will.
I would not recommend the Princess over the King ..someone is nuts.
 
Is the upstairs open to the 1st floor other than the stairs? If you have the openings for a nice loop, it may circulate real well. With a loft on second floor open above the living room, and the stairs on the other end of the house here, it has a real nice loop for circulation going on. If your closed off, you may be hot in that room, but just strip &/or crack a window. Plus....according to the other BK King owners, they can burn at 1 at a low burn for 20-30-40 hour or more with good control of output. So if that is correct a King or Princess would burn similar at slow rate.
 
Agreed. It looks like there's an opportunity to set up a nice convective loop, maybe with the assistance of a fan. But I can't tell what room is on what level.
 
That layout is the main floor is my guess.
All bedrooms upstairs...same as me..well i actually have 4 up and 1 down.
This house stays really even in temps....maybe 5 degrees diff at the far end..where is mud room is.
 
sheeplenot said:
There is a med sized foyer where the stairs are. the drawing is just of the main floor. Thanks for the help.
They didn't bring up the Chinook?
 
sheeplenot said:
...and the pellet stove just to keep the tv room nice.

If you are serious about keeping the pellet stove, and using it for the TV room, the King may be over-kill.
 
He could just fire the pellet stove when it's real cold..he may never have to burn with flame in the King if he did that..but he could.
I would leave it and still get the king or maybe the Chinook.
I would say the Progress Hybrid is a good call also.
 
The wife shot down the chinook but oddly didn't mind the look of the king parlor. she loves the look of the woodstock.If the pellet stove is only used on the coldest days that would be ok with me. the sound of the fan gets a little old.
 
I can tell you that the Princess for the most part is too large for my 1400 sqft house.
R21 walls, R10 under the slab and R60 in the attic.. it's about what most new construction has. I know it doesn't take very much to keep it warm when using my stove. I burn about 3 cords a year if that is any indication... my nat gas boiler is only used as "backup", T Stats are set to the low 60s... just in case.

Unless it's at least single digits or colder I can't put a full load of wood in, otherwise it will be suffocating hot in the house. It's 20* outside right now, 2 hours ago I made a fire with 4 or 5 small logs and it's pushing 80* in the house. I had to open a window! I have to also plan how much wood to put if the kitchen oven will be used. Just running the oven is enough heat for the house with these mild temps.
 
My house is 1600ft², with probably less than adequate insulation. The kitchen/LR/DR it is in is about 1100. We're comfortable all the time. It'll burn for hours and hours at 400°, or just mere hours at 800°, depending on what we need. As long as you're starting from scratch, and the 8" pipe isn't an issue, I say go for it.
 
other then cost (thanks menards) the 8 inch pipe will be ok. its a new install so the sheet is blank.It looks like the hearth wont need as much r value with the blaze king as it would the progress so thats a plus!
 
sheeplenot said:
The wife shot down the chinook but oddly didn't mind the look of the king parlor. she loves the look of the woodstock.If the pellet stove is only used on the coldest days that would be ok with me. the sound of the fan gets a little old.
Cool..and I doubt you would even need to run the fans on the King..I hardly ever have them on.
I'm telling you that King will heat your house very easy on a load that will go 24 hours no prob in the shoulder...no fans.
Don't worry about over heating the room..it's not a tube stove.
Had to throw that in there just to rile up my tube burner friends..lol.

That King Cat will burn as low as 8,400 btu's/hour.
 
If the 8" pipe isn't an issue, I'd go King. Ours is right in the middle of the living space and we have never needed to open a window like we did with the previous stove that was half the size. Big firebox and a wide firing range of clean burn gives you a lot of options.
 
the King is the KING for a reason, dont get the princess youll regret it.
 
Thanks for all the responses (any others would be more then welcome ). It looks like I'm down to a gentle giant (THE KING) or a stone beauty ( woodstock progress). I also want to thank blaze king for a quick response to my email (they didn't get near the info I gave here). :cheese: :cheese:
 
I would get the king, I needed an insert so I got the princess and it does a nice job heating my 2800 sf but if I build another house Im going with the king.
 
Never been to Utah but I'm sure winter there can be brutal. Go for the King!
 
i know slc is a cake walk for winter, hardly got snow much that stayed when i lived there.
 
NATE379 said:
I can tell you that the Princess for the most part is too large for my 1400 sqft house.
R21 walls, R10 under the slab and R60 in the attic.. it's about what most new construction has. I know it doesn't take very much to keep it warm when using my stove. I burn about 3 cords a year if that is any indication... my nat gas boiler is only used as "backup", T Stats are set to the low 60s... just in case.

Unless it's at least single digits or colder I can't put a full load of wood in, otherwise it will be suffocating hot in the house. It's 20* outside right now, 2 hours ago I made a fire with 4 or 5 small logs and it's pushing 80* in the house. I had to open a window! I have to also plan how much wood to put if the kitchen oven will be used. Just running the oven is enough heat for the house with these mild temps.

I would say " I feel what you are saying" My house is about the same size, we had closed cell foam installed this last summer and man did that make a difference. Its also to warm in the house at 26 degrees. I run the stove shut down most of the time and switch to the heat pump when the temps go over 35/40 degrees. The insert is a great heater when the temps drop and thats what I got it for.
I would say that the correct size BK stove is very important if you want to run it in the shoulder season.
 
greythorn3 said:
i know slc is a cake walk for winter, hardly got snow much that stayed when i lived there.

Where I live is about 10 to 20 degrees colder at night then salt lake but strangely only a few degrees colder during the day.Most years my lows at nights in January are -10s but still its not brutal like Alaska or Minnesota. This year has been crazy we haven't even broke into the minus 0 temps :coolsmile: Smileys
 
Better to have it and not need it ,than to need it and not have it.Go bigger and i'd recommend a BK,you can burn 3 splits in it for warmer temps/shoulder season and they will give you more than you'd imagine. PS the King loves dry wood 14%to 18%MC and he rocks.I can get 10.5 to 12 hour burns on 3 splits of oak when it's at 28 to 30* and maintain 73,74* no problem.Try that with anything else,ain't happening.Not intending to to rattle any cages ,just stating my limited 11 month experience with my stove.House 1600sq ft.never overheated us yet,but it could.
 
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