Looking at getting a wood stove for about 1000sq feet

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I have a main floor of 800 sq ft and a finished attic with about 200 sq ft.
The finished attic is above where the stove will be.
House is a 100yr+ old house with all original single hung windows and no insulation as far as I've seen. The stove will be in our living room which has three outside walls

I'm looking at this stove. Summers heat 2000 sq ft.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_669022-76845-50-SHSSW01_1z0vitvZ1z0w5u2__?productId=999918844&pl=1

Thank you so much for your help.
Tom
 
That would be the Madison. Good choice. It will want dry, fully seasoned wood to perform well.
 
Im looking at using it during the day when im at home because my wife wants nothing to do with ot as we have 3 kids. Wondering if I can do overnight burns of about 10 ish hrs so when im at work.

Also wondering about clearances if i use double wall stove pive vs single wall. It has no mention about it in the manual that i can seen.
 
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Overnight burns should be fine. It will depend to a certain extent on the wood and how the stove is loaded. If you want longer burns you may want to look at the PE Super 27, Enviro Kodiak 1700 in non-cats. They have a regulated secondary air supply which helps extend burn time. Or consider the Woodstock Ideal Steel or Blaze King Sirocco 20 or 30 in catalytic stoves. All of these options would cost much more. Englander makes a great value stove.
 
Wondering about clearances if i use double wall stove pive vs single wall. It has no mention about it in the manual that i can seen. Our living room is an octagon shaped room so no real corners except on one wall.

Hopefully the wife and kids get into it because eventually i would like to put this one in the shed and get a bigger one to heat the whole house and finished attic once I finish it
 
Rule69 said:
Wondering about clearances if i use double wall stove pive vs single wall. It has no mention about it in the manual that i can seen. Our living room is an octagon shaped room so no real corners except on one wall.

Hopefully the wife and kids get into it because eventually i would like to put this one in the shed and get a bigger one to heat the whole house and finished attic once I finish it
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I'm just another Blaze King enthusiast here, but I would consider looking at one. My wife also wanted nothing to do with the wood stove, I ended up convincing her to have a Blaze King installed in our old home. As long as I kept it fed, all she had to do was turn the thermostat up or down, depending on how she felt. She ended up loving it so much that she is onboard for getting rid of the pellet stove in our new house and getting another Blaze King.
 
She'snot wanting me to spend a ton of money on this. Im giving myself a budget of around $3,000 total including the chimney, hearth pad and stove. Im going to use a raised hearth pad and make it a larger size then needed and i can reuse the chimney with a new stove. Mostly looking to cut down on the use of our furnace when it gets cold here in Michigan. I'll be buying a lil at a time except for the chimney.
 
Welcome to the forums !!!

Love my Englander, a solid stove for the money.

Once you tighten up the house, that stove might do the job.

How big is the firebox in this?
 
Rule69 said:
Wondering about clearances if i use double wall stove pive vs single wall. It has no mention about it in the manual that i can seen. Our living room is an octagon shaped room so no real corners except on one wall.

Hopefully the wife and kids get into it because eventually i would like to put this one in the shed and get a bigger one to heat the whole house and finished attic once I finish it
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I know your kids will. My daughter lives in front of the insert and my son loves splitting wood with me.
 
Firebox Size W x D (in.) 18 x 18. Not sure if that includes the fire bricks or not
 
markam said:
I know your kids will. My daughter lives in front of the insert and my son loves splitting wood with me.
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I have three sons. 7yr old , 2 yr and a 9 month old
 
Heftiger said:
I'm just another Blaze King enthusiast here, but I would consider looking at one. My wife also wanted nothing to do with the wood stove, I ended up convincing her to have a Blaze King installed in our old home. As long as I kept it fed, all she had to do was turn the thermostat up or down, depending on how she felt. She ended up loving it so much that she is onboard for getting rid of the pellet stove in our new house and getting another Blaze King.
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Gotta second Heftiger's recommendation. Your challenge...like mine....is a small house. (800 sq ft here) Many stoves (non-cat, IMO) fire too hot and burn up too fast. This means you are tending the stove multiple times per day. As a result...the temp in the house is like a roller coaster...up/down/up/down.....too hot...too cold...too hot..too cold....

Been there, done that. Just started using the BK Princess this week and am AMAZED. This little house stays 70-72.....constantly with this stove. Saw a 18 hour burn on >>>cottonwood<<< ......and it has totally changed my perspective on burning wood. It's a HUGE step up from a regular stove! We are using A LOT less wood....and we are WARM.

Yes, it's more $$. I'm looking at (or was) the same stove you are looking at to put in a greenhouse....and another BK would cost me 3X the price....but in the end...the hassle factor of loading a stove every 4-6 hours...and the BK's 24 hour burns and the EVEN HEAT....has me rethinking the cheap stove from the box store BIG TIME.

Good luck with your decision.
 
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Rule69 said:
Wondering about clearances if i use double wall stove pive vs single wall. It has no mention about it in the manual that i can seen. Our living room is an octagon shaped room so no real corners except on one wall.

Hopefully the wife and kids get into it because eventually i would like to put this one in the shed and get a bigger one to heat the whole house and finished attic once I finish it
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The manual is the tested guideline. They may have not tested with double-wall. Use double-wall to keep the flue cleaner and drafting better, especially if the connector is long.
 
Thinking of going with the one from Lowes until I get enough seasoned wood stacked up. Then upgrade and put this one in the shed or our finished basement.
 
Keep us posted. You may like the stove well enough to keep it in the house and get another for the shop. Englander makes good stoves.
 
Your house sounds pretty cold. I've heard it said that a single pane window has the same thermal effect of having a fist size hole in a wall. So I don't think you'll be overpowered with this stove at all. The trick will be getting the heat to distribute evenly throughout the house. Not knowing your floor plan I can't really comment but you'll find plenty of good advice here if you show us your floor plan. Will the chimney be in the house exposed pipe thru the roof, thru a wall and up the outside, or in an existing fireplace chimney?
 
I'll draw up a floor plan in the morning as I'm at work now. I would love to put it straight up through the floor but might go as high as I can then vent out the wall. I have 12 foot ceilings.

Ideally I want to put in in the dining room in between the two bedroom door as that is about middle of the house but will have to measure out the space.
 
If you can picture this lol. Been a busy day today

You enter in the dinning room and have two bedrooms off the dinning room . When looking at the bedrooms to the left is the living room and to the right is the kitchen and the bathroom door is in the kitchen.
 
The stove should heat the space nicely. You'll probably want to run the ceiling fan to help de-stratify the hot air that will accumulate at the ceiling peak. Running it in reverse (winter mode) will recirculate the air without drafts.
 
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