Looking for a WoodStove Insert

I have the PE Pacific. Dont know your FP dimensions but I love the stove. Would be a good fit for that size house too. Dont think circulating air through your ducts is gonna help and it may be a safetly concern. I'm sure others will chime in soon.

I second the PE Pacific. Just starting our third season burning with it and am very happy.

Nemeth, I've got the Jotul 450 insert in a ranch home that is a little larger than yours. I too have the cold air return for my forced air furnace in the same room as the insert. I have used the furnace fan to distribute heat thru the house with good success (including the basement). If you cold air return(s) are in the ceilings make sure to insulate them in the attic. I typically will wait until the room with the insert is above 70 deg. before starting the fan for distribution. Good luck, Aaron

Man,

Tough question, I got mine in a convoluted round about way. I think there is only one PE dealer on Long Island. In Farmingville if my memory serves correct. PE dealer search was down last time I checked. Mine came straight from the distributor because of a warranty failure on another brand stove. You can search for that thread if you like. I would say the installer quality here on the Island is marginal at best. By the end of the process I knew as much if not more than the guy that installed my stove. Have not heard great things bout the local Patchogue shop with the Jotul and Quads but they did install my moms quad 10 years ago with out any hiccups yet so, sorry I'm not more help on the subject. This is my first season with my PE and so far so good, but I'm gonna run outa wood I know it. I thought I was gonna burn only part time but we love the heat so much that we are burning more frequntly than we had figured. Gotta call my firewood guy ( yes I know he has dry wood still but its too long for my stove I'll have to cut it shorter if I wanna keep burning he syas the short stuff isn't ready yet. )and get some more cause I'll need it by January at the pace were going.

Quadrafire is quality made product and they stand behind their warranty if anything fails. Lifetime on the firebox and most metal components. If you have any specific questions about the 3100I I would be happy to give a good honest answer.

Unfortunately I don't have much experience actually burning the stove, I do not even own a wood stove. We sell them at the shop I work at, I service them (Quad stoves) occasionally and deal with warranty issues. For that we would need someone who actually owns one.

I guess the questions I could answer would be more technical or operational things, sorry for being misleading.

Just as a note, there are code restrictions on having an HVAC intake w/in 10 feet of your stove / insert. Also there have been lots of people that have tried using their furnace blowers to circulate heated air around their homes, and very few have found that it works well. The heat off a stove is much less than what your furnace puts out, and by the time one figures in duct losses, etc. It's usually a heat loser.

You usually are better off looking at other ways to circulate your heat.

Gooserider

I have the Clydesdale, as do a few others on this site. I coudn't be happier with it - well maybe if it brought wood inside by itself !! ;-)

I picked in big part because I like the looks of it better than the others, but that's really a personal thing. The PE summit has a great reputation too. Just make sure any unit you get is sized right for your fireplace opening. The clydesdale is too big for most fireboxes. Oh, and remember that an insert can't throw as much heat as a traditional stove because most of it is inside your fireplace. Don't buy one without getting the blowers too.