Englander 30-NC seems impressive.

I've had it burning since about 4:00 today. Its in the basement and I had the windows and door open while the paint cured. I closed everything up about an hour ago while it was humming along at 525 deg. The smell isn't too bad but I'm about ready throw a few more splits on and get it roaring again. Its holding the temps steady upstairs maybe even rising slightly but its only mid fifties outside, on its way to the low 30's. With temps expected to hover around mid 40's tomorrow it should be a decent test for the Englander as the wife, who stays home, will tend to it. It should be interesting to see if it can keep the house warm overnight. Usually the Energy King insert on the 1st floor will let the temps drop about 5-7 degrees overnight when it is in the lower 30's. We usually wake up to 70 degrees downstairs. With the Englander now trying to heat the basement plus the top 2 floors I hope I can get the same performance. I can tell you right now it is much less drafty in the house. The convection currents tha normally setup from the insert are decently breezy, the Englander has to fight the 180 deg bend in the stairwell to get the heat upstairs and the cool air to return.

Some things I have noticed:
- The light show from the secondary burn ROCKS!
- The soot buildup on the window from the previous owners one and only burn has burned off pretty well.
- The draft from 40 foot of pipe attached is great
- A blower should help quite a bit. I found out today Home Depot near me doesn't sell wod stoves or accesories. WTH?????
- Im very happy so far, with the exception of having climb on the roof about 12 times more than I expected to install the liner and readjust 5 times and then do it all over becaust the liner fell out of the chimney.
- Did you know that you can install the cap with the stove puffing along at 450 deg? (it was the last thing I had to do today)
- Poor placement on the air intake adjustment knob. Its a thumb burn waiting to happen.

gangsplatt said:

My Englander 30-NC is in the basement also, I've got a 12" x 12" vent right above the stove with a stove fan in the vent. It's done an awesome job of keeping us warm during the past month, temps last week were pretty cool (mid 40's for day time temp a couple of days) so we got a good test of what she'll do and the monitor heater located on the ground floor never even came close to starting up.

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Is this your first year with her in? What size house are you trying to heat?

BrotherBart said:

Rockey said:

Poor placement on the air intake adjustment knob. Its a thumb burn waiting to happen.

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Nah you won't ever burn yourself on it. Anybody that clumsy would, oh I don't know, do something like let the liner fall out of their chimney. :lol:

Enjoy that big hoss.

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I told you, I'm not good - but I'm slow. did you know they put holes at both ends of the chimbley now a days.

Ok, so I have come to the conclusion that my house is just too big too heat with one stove. My house has insulated walls, 12" blown in insulation in the atttic, double pane windows, and I just insulated the basement with spray foam. Here is how last night went. Went to bed at 10:00 with two big rounds, 1 locust, 1 maple. It was hovering around 500 deg stove top the 1 st floor was 73 degrees, 46 outside. I woke at 2:30 and went downstairs to check on the stove - it was still there. Stove top was 375 so I threw about 3 more splits on and went back to bed, it was 71 on the first floor and about 37 outside. Woke up at 5:30, it was 37 outside, 70 on the first floor and I loaded the stove with 3 good splits. This was unbelievable the stove top temp shot to 675 deg with the primary shut all the way down. This thing throws the heat!! I really expected this to warm the house nicely but it stuck right at 70 deg. Even the basement wasn't overly warm like I expected it, maybe upper 70's. It looks like I will be using the Englander and the insert on the first floor when it dips below the mid 20's