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... for my 700 square foot home. Please help before my girlfriend makes me buy another pellet stove.

I'm trying to find something that will have a long burn time so it's warm overnight and when I go to work, yet small enough that I don't have to open the windows to survive inside. The house was built in the 20's but likely well insulated because it's slab + cinder block construction with timber construction for the upstairs. I'm also trying to stay away from stoves with cats if that's possible because I'd like to be able to burn scrap and whatever wood I can get off my property. This is the whole point of getting a wood stove over a pellet stove for me.

Thank you for any advice.
 
Wood stoves are made to burn properly seasoned cord wood. If by whatever you mean pallet and untreated wood scraps you should be ok though.

You will find it next to impossible though to find a stove to heat 700sq ft and provide over night burns. I think you should realize that any wood stove you get will need properly seasoned wood or you ain't going to be happy and you will likely have to narrow your search to stoves with less than 2cu ft firebox and compromise on burn times.

How's the climate where you live? Do you have a chimney already? If so can you describe it?
 
Long burn = ability to hold a good amount of good. Good amount of wood = typically going to bake you out of only 700sq.

My best recommendation is to look at the smallest models that Blaze King makes. They have some alien technology that allows for extremely long burns (they control the air very precisely over the ups and downs of a typical burn). Looks like they have a couple options in both CAT and Non-CAT, that start at a low of 600sq.

http://www.blazeking.com/EN/wood-stoves.html
 
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I live in central New Jersey so I guess you can say I see the best of all four Seasons without things being too harsh. I have no chimney yet, but it have a nice new pipe installed.

I think you're right about the seasoned firewood thing. I had dreams of using things like pallet wood from time to time but also twigs and debris from the yard. Perhaps I should consider a cat because I'm reading that they really enjoy low and slow fires... Might not have to open too many windows.

I was trying for a smaller stove to take up less space, but I guess the difference of a few inches really isn't going to make or break me.
 
metalsped said:
Long burn = ability to hold a good amount of good. Good amount of wood = typically going to bake you out of only 700sq.

My best recommendation is to look at the smallest models that Blaze King makes. They have some alien technology that allows for extremely long burns (they control the air very precisely over the ups and downs of a typical burn). Looks like they have a couple options in both CAT and Non-CAT, that start at a low of 600sq.

http://www.blazeking.com/EN/wood-stoves.html
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+1 on a small Blaze King with CAT like the Sirocco 20.
 
small cat but get your wood ready for next year now. tube burner smallish stove not good on long overnight burns
 
rijim said:
+1 on a small Blaze King with CAT like the Sirocco 20.
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That would be the first stove I'd recommend too. Scrap wood is ok as long as it's clean, like 2x4 cut-offs. One shouldn't burn particle board and OSB scraps, regardless of the stove. Burning it puts a lot of toxins in the air. Also in the small cat range are the Woodstock Keystone and the Buck 20.
 
You don't want a stove you want a garbage disposal. From what you've said for several reasons you'd be better off with a pellet stove but you'll find this out for yourself down the road as well as how much fun your GF will have pointing out how right she was.
 
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