heating 1800 sq. ft

I thought they pretty reasonable, google it tho . The super 27 would be a good stove as well. Heatilator and sbi also make nice stoves that would work.

I have an enviro and absolutely love it, 7 years and still going stronjg

Enviro Stoves are first class, wood and pellet.
I have an Enviro Evolution pellet stove that heats my whole house. House is open concept and 1200 sq ft. with 14 ft cathedral ceilings. Main room is 40'x20'. and the pellet stove burns from Nov./Dec. until March. I usually burn about 100 bags of pellets a heating season. That's about $500 a year for heat. Our electric baseboard heating would cost us around $3000 a heating season. So our payback period for the $2600 purchase of the Enviro was payed back in one year.

rdubs20 said:

It looked real narrow for a 2.9 firebox.

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Hearthstone is pretty famous for exaggerating their firebox size. Use a tape measure and you'll likely find that 2.9 to be closer to 2.3.

rdubs20 said:

so do you think the t5 or 6 would be better for my application?

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In an older 1800 SF home in NY I would be putting in the t6. The t5 is a great stove and also uses the 6" flue. I agree with your choice in non-cats, if I had to go back to non-cat I would very likely be choosing a PE product. The stainless steel baffle is a big advantage as is their firebox shape which is deep enough to allow loading firewood straight in as god intended (or sideways if you're into that).

We get lots of folks on this site that wish they had a larger stove. Almost never hear of someone wishing for a smaller one.

You say you will heat the 1800 from the living room. Is that living room in the lower story or the upper story?

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A floor pan, even roughly sketched, and scanned in, and attached here would be a good answer to this size debate

Youse guys, geez

Hi rdubs- yeah Boston is a pretty stove, superb heater too. I'm not sure about the price offhand, I want to say around $3200 MSRP in Antique chestnut. I've had my Kodiak for years, its the best stove I've had overall, but the Jotul F500 Oslo in blue black was the prettiest one I've owned. I will upgrade to the Boston sometime, luckily I sell them, so Enviro will help me a bit with the cost. The stoves mentioned so far, you can't lose with any of them. Get good dry wood ready, that is the true key to wood stove happiness.

Ever thought of the Quadra fire 3100 or 4300 I have a 2100 heating 850sf cabin in southern Maine. PE has some nice stuff and so does Harman. shop around for sure but look for thickness of the steel and how common it is for needing repairs. be sure your chimney is up to snuff before you buy your stove. I love the easy start up that feature alone would make it hard for me to be switch to use another brand. just got the 5700 for my parents big house and it heats it very nice on the coldest of nights.

I agree with your thinking on steel thickness, but the perhaps most highly regarded high-performance stove manufacturer on this forum makes their fireboxes out of alarmingly thin sheet metal, without ever seeming to have a failure.

My way of thinking is if there is not a lot of heat lost a nice cat stove should be good on keeping the temp once the house is up to the temp. Personally I would get bk princess insert or ashford if a free standing is an option.

rdubs20 said:

so do you guys think a cat or non cat would work best for my application?

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After making the switch to cat stove for primary heating of my home I will not be going back to non-cat. I am away from the house 11-12 hours each day and ONLY a cat stove can dependably maintain a fire and stove temp that whole time unless you find a gigantic non-cat or some sort of pellet stove. There are several smaller cat stoves available to choose from and a couple of big ones.

I got my parents a Quadra fire 5700 step top. That thing is a beast holds a fire for 18hours no joke does what the specs say. But if you really need to have a longer burn time and don't need the btus a cat may be better.

Highbeam said:

After making the switch to cat stove for primary heating of my home I will not be going back to non-cat.

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I've seen a lot of people say this. The only appeal to non-cat, for me, is that there are so few cosmetically attractive cat stoves on the market today.

At 1800 sq.ft., I'd think low-and-slow would be the recipe. One of our additions is almost exactly 1800 sq.ft., and I've been very happy heating that space with a cat stove. It's easy to overheat a space that small.