Background: split-level home, two brick fireplaces (one up and one down) located on end of house with outside chimney, downstairs is approx. 500 sqft finished space and upstairs is just over 1000 sqft.
Original plan about a month ago was a pellet stove upstairs and a woodstove downstairs but now we have done a 180 after talking to a lot of people and reading many posts on here. Our thoughts/feelings are we really dont like "the look" of pellet stove flame/fire (to industrial is word I use) and the noise of the fan going all the time so we have settle on a Regency Alterra CI1250 wood insert upstairs to be started when we are home. A pellet stove insert in the downstairs fireplace which would be going 24/7 to heat that space and hopefully let some heat rise to upstairs.
So, as far as pellet inserts go we have narrowed down to 3 different models we have some interest in but wondering what your opinions are on these brands/models and are there things we should be considering as we compare them? We had gotten some quotes a while ago and I think they were within a $600 range of each other (I am laid up after surgery yesterday for torn Achilles so cant get exact numbers right now).
Lowest to highest price...
Quadrafire Sante-Fe
Enviro Milan
Harman P35i
It looks like the mfg's are starting more incentives recently so were thinking it might be a good time to buy or do they generally get better in another month or so?
Thanks!
Original plan about a month ago was a pellet stove upstairs and a woodstove downstairs but now we have done a 180 after talking to a lot of people and reading many posts on here. Our thoughts/feelings are we really dont like "the look" of pellet stove flame/fire (to industrial is word I use) and the noise of the fan going all the time so we have settle on a Regency Alterra CI1250 wood insert upstairs to be started when we are home. A pellet stove insert in the downstairs fireplace which would be going 24/7 to heat that space and hopefully let some heat rise to upstairs.
So, as far as pellet inserts go we have narrowed down to 3 different models we have some interest in but wondering what your opinions are on these brands/models and are there things we should be considering as we compare them? We had gotten some quotes a while ago and I think they were within a $600 range of each other (I am laid up after surgery yesterday for torn Achilles so cant get exact numbers right now).
Lowest to highest price...
Quadrafire Sante-Fe
Enviro Milan
Harman P35i
It looks like the mfg's are starting more incentives recently so were thinking it might be a good time to buy or do they generally get better in another month or so?
Thanks!