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BlazeKing sounds like the stoves to have! I'm tempted to buy one just to see if the burn time claims with seasoned hardwood are even close to real!
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Purchased a Blaze King Classic back in 1986 when we were building our third log home. Price back then was $1700.00. This beast heated 2200 sf to a toasty 73-80 degrees no problem. Burn times were from 10-14 hours depending on wood and outside conditions. Had problems with wood supply and managed to get hold of salvaged power poles (creosoted yellow pine ). Burned great but a little too hot. Warped the damper yoke and was wasting a lot of heat out the chimney. I decided to replace it with the same unit and went shopping. No dealer within 300 miles had one in stock, so I called Blaze King. Got several possible dealers to get the stove from , and they were in stock. Prices ranged fron 4500 to 3700 plus shipping. Wife got hold of my checkbook and said try again. The Blaze King is one heck of a stove. Sorry now I did not spend the money. Yes, it holds a lot of wood. But when it cooks for 10-14 hours with all that heat output ... spend the money! It will not let you down.
Todd
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Lanning said:
They have any other deals going on? I need to take a drive and see what they have.
Well it was 9 degrees this morning and I couln't tell from inside.It was so toasty I thought it was warmer out.Last night I was kicking off covers for the first time this winter.Over and out.Wet1 said:Yo Rich, we need hourly updates on this beast... Feed us some more info
YO Oldernwiser,there's only one dealer in Maine at the moment and the price is way down from those you quoted above.This may be the time to get that stove.Oldernwiser said:
So it appears to be doing what your other stoves haven't been able to do? Burn times at these temps?Rich L said:Well it was 9 degrees this morning and I couln't tell from inside.It was so toasty I thought it was warmer out.Last night I was kicking off covers for the first time this winter.Over and out.Wet1 said:Yo Rich, we need hourly updates on this beast... Feed us some more info
rydaddy
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- Sep 13, 2007
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I am seriously considering jumping on the Blaze King bandwagon myself and adding the King in my basement. Working out some water heater placements etc. in my basement and doing the pre-liminary stuff now. I have to drive over an hour to the nearest dealer, so I want to be sure I am ready and can make it happen before I make the trip.
Savage,
from your posts, I assume you are kicking around the idea of a BK. Since you want the eyeball searing, don't store flammable liquids within a three mile radius, Throws off statewide thermal scans type of heat, I would say the king is more suited than the princess for you. You have to factor in that even if it is 100 degrees less than your current stove, the sheer size of thet giant steel block is gonna be throwing an intense amount of heat around. These are convection stoves, so I would imagine their heat disperses quite well, but I'm very certain that a giant block of 600 degree steel is also going to be throwing plenty of radiant heat around. I don't think you would be at all unhappy with it.
edit: Also, don't forget about Wolfkiller heating his house to 80 in -40 outdoor temps with that beast. As far as the ice storm, and low temps question, I think that gives us our answer.
from your posts, I assume you are kicking around the idea of a BK. Since you want the eyeball searing, don't store flammable liquids within a three mile radius, Throws off statewide thermal scans type of heat, I would say the king is more suited than the princess for you. You have to factor in that even if it is 100 degrees less than your current stove, the sheer size of thet giant steel block is gonna be throwing an intense amount of heat around. These are convection stoves, so I would imagine their heat disperses quite well, but I'm very certain that a giant block of 600 degree steel is also going to be throwing plenty of radiant heat around. I don't think you would be at all unhappy with it.
edit: Also, don't forget about Wolfkiller heating his house to 80 in -40 outdoor temps with that beast. As far as the ice storm, and low temps question, I think that gives us our answer.
It's the best yet.Now to insulate.Though it's much better,I don't think there's a stove made that can properly heat a very drafty house.Some say they have a stove that heats their drafty house however I think that's a lot of huffing and puffing not the facts.The areas that were toasty in my house were the rooms closest to the stove.My draftiest rooms are also the rooms furthest from the stove.Much of my cold is coming down from the heatless attic.The cold travels down the inside of the walls to the second and first floors.Once I block these cold air passageways off the stove will heat every room in the house easily.Wet1 said:So it appears to be doing what your other stoves haven't been able to do? Burn times at these temps?Rich L said:Well it was 9 degrees this morning and I couln't tell from inside.It was so toasty I thought it was warmer out.Last night I was kicking off covers for the first time this winter.Over and out.Wet1 said:Yo Rich, we need hourly updates on this beast... Feed us some more info
Highbeam
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rydaddy said:
Don't forget rydaddy that the king model needs the 8" flue system. It would make an excellent basement heater. The required clearances to combustibles aren't that bad either.
rydaddy
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- Sep 13, 2007
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That is one thing I am waiting on. I have a flue available, but do not know the size until I get up on my roof. At the moment it is covered in snow and too steep to risk it. It is supposed to start warming up here and rain. That may allow me to make the crawl up there!
Todd
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iceman
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rydaddy
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- Sep 13, 2007
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Todd said:
Not without breaking into Cement block etc. This flue was originally used by the original furnace (before my time) in my 50ish year old house. Where the old furnace was once connected to this chimney is reapired/filled etc. I was hoping to not start popping holes into it until I was farther along in the process. Otherwise that is a very valid point.
If I get on the roof, and the chimney is not apporpriate for use (too small, damaged, who knows) then this deal is off before I even get started.
Hey rydaddy,I have a 6" flue also which is running the 8" Blaze King.My dealer said I could run an increaser which went from 6" to 8".However he said the pipe from the stove should be all 8" right up to the 8" end of the increaser which then would attach to the 6" end of the insulated pipe going through the ceiling.Guess what it works.rydaddy said:
Todd
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iceman
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i am becoming more of a blaze king fan but am curious to see how it would stack up against the equinox... i know they are completely different stoves but both have the big box
Well since my house is drafty I'll add more wood after 12hrs.however I'll still have a couple of splits still burning while the others have been reduced to burning coals.If my house was well insulated a full load of good hard wood in this thing would probably go close to 15 -20 hrs.It's going to be in the forties this weekend and I want to clean my pipe cap and reposition the stove.I was planning to do it Saturday morning however I might of made the mistake of filling this thing this morning.Even if I don't add more wood this stove may still be burning Saturday am.Well I definitely won't add any wood this evening after work.Todd said:
Highbeam
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The BK company brochure for the king model shows a healthy burn for like 47 hours plus. Why are you only getting 15-20 out of it? Were they being optimistic or are you using a higher setting on the stat than the "low" that they used in teh 47 hour burn. They didn't even fill it up to get that one! didn't start the clock until they engaged the cat!
HB, figure that they did it in a 70 degree lab with warm outdoor temps and the precise amount of pipe coming off of the thing for optimum burn time.
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