What size is your firebox?

I was just curious how big of a firebox everyone is using to heat what size house and how well it works.

We have a 5 cubic foot firebox on our Kitchen Queen 480 and it heats our 840 sq ft house. There is a second floor and a partial basement. The house is very drafty. We are hoping to fix that this year. We also cook on/in the stove, since it is a cook stove. The house is normally 78°-86°, but occasionally reaches 100°+. The stove holds a lot of heat and we only load it about twice a day if the weather is above 0°. We average about a wheelbarrow load a day in the cold of winter. When it is warmer, a wheelbarrow load might last 2 days.

yep. I measured it. The water coil is not in it right now, so it is a full 5 cu ft. With the water coil, it would be just under.

That is with the water coil in it. We don't have ours in right now.

If we fix the drafts, we would be able to close the stove down even more. I will be adding secondary air to it this summer and then it will get moved to the central chimney where it can pull a real draft. The chimney it is on right now is short, as in 10 feet tall, total, short. The central chimney will have 21 feet above the flue connector, and the stove and pipe will add another 5 feet to that, for those of you who use the stove and pipe as part of chimney height.

We can cook a meal without raising the temp inside much more than 2° but it is nice to be toasty warm. She is a good stove and has no problem keeping us comfy.
We have been burning a lot of green wood this year because we used up this year's wood last year with temps of -40° to -50°. The kitchen queen uses half the wood of the epa stove and is many times bigger. It makes food taste better too.

Oh yeah....we rarely fill the firebox. it usually has about 5 pieces in it.