Anyone heard of this fancy "Stuv" company

I kept waiting for that top piece to slip out on the floor before the door was rotated.. It wasn't even wedged in. Yikes.

Yeah the cat was fun.

Replacing the glass on that thing will cost a pretty penny. Any guesses on how much? My guess: $500 or more.

While interesting I would not like that smoke going into my home plus a log could fall out on fire! This is more a decorative fire than a serious heater in my opinion. I'll stick with wood stoves thank you very much! I also agree the glass and bricks would be quite expensive to replace.

Ray

I've seen more than one Buck stove slammed into one of those corner fireplaces, and always thought they looked ideal for that, as their insert is really a free stander with a surround kit, so they're still dressed pretty on the exposed side.

stacks said:

Neat. Wish they would have zoomed out.

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There are other youtubes on these things. Looks cool in a very ultra modern way and probably ultra expensive, but doesn't seem ultra practical. I can't even find if it's EPA or not.

I think what you should do is get a hold of various local fireplace masonary contractors. One of them must have built that. Next question is the firebox area a prefab? That is a very expensive assembly and I do mean expensive. With a heatalator system it might have been something through Lenox or Heatalator themselves. Heatalator was bought by Lenox and now Lenox is or has gotten out of the business as well. So Research is the goal at this point. With the mass that is available in that system and it looks like the fire area can be completely closed from the interior I will bet there is a combustion air feed from an external source. Do not be to quick to discount that assembly. Dig around on it find names report back. A masonary system like that likely was designed to heat the entire home not just for looks.

That's an awful lot of smoke coming into the room on start up. Would not enjoy loading that stove, and would worry about it...not for me, that's for sure.