Hey y'all. I have been on a lot lately on my quest to get a stove and you guys have been fabulous answering all the questions. So now I have more! I'm looking for a reasonably priced insert, but one that sticks out onto the hearth a bit for more radiant heat. (I have a thread here with a lot of great suggestions on these!) I am looking at used and new. Finding that the hardware store brands are more my speed pricewise, plus I don't care for the local dealer (in considering the premium brands I mean- just have difficulty knowing where to start on those). I want something that will heat a 1400 sq foot house and hope to find one where that footage falls closer to the middle of a stove's stated range, rather than the top.
Looks like the hardware store inserts are pretty straight up and do not appear to extend onto the hearth more than an inch or two. (Englander, Drolet etc.) I have discovered there are also middle range priced stoves to be found on the internet that have shipping included. Like Vozelgang, Napoleon, etc. This included the Osburn stoves. Then I saw that two of their line have these cool bay window shaped glass fronts. This is a really neat looking stove and not much more than their "vanilla" style regular one. I don't see a lot on here from people with Osburns and did see one thing about the doors being difficult to seal. Any other comments? Talking about the 2200 and the 1800 on this. With shipping these are about 1500-1800. Is that putting me more in the "premium" price range like the best stoves from dealers only?
I also have questions regarding that stated sizing that a stove will heat. I see a lot of stoves listed with something like "heats 500 - 1800 sq feet." That's an awfully broad range! And in the case of the two osburn stoves above, the larger insert says it's range is "500-2000" which isn't terribly much bigger than the other one! Does it simply mean there's a bigger firebox so you don't necessarily have heat for more area, but you have longer burn times?
Looks like the hardware store inserts are pretty straight up and do not appear to extend onto the hearth more than an inch or two. (Englander, Drolet etc.) I have discovered there are also middle range priced stoves to be found on the internet that have shipping included. Like Vozelgang, Napoleon, etc. This included the Osburn stoves. Then I saw that two of their line have these cool bay window shaped glass fronts. This is a really neat looking stove and not much more than their "vanilla" style regular one. I don't see a lot on here from people with Osburns and did see one thing about the doors being difficult to seal. Any other comments? Talking about the 2200 and the 1800 on this. With shipping these are about 1500-1800. Is that putting me more in the "premium" price range like the best stoves from dealers only?
I also have questions regarding that stated sizing that a stove will heat. I see a lot of stoves listed with something like "heats 500 - 1800 sq feet." That's an awfully broad range! And in the case of the two osburn stoves above, the larger insert says it's range is "500-2000" which isn't terribly much bigger than the other one! Does it simply mean there's a bigger firebox so you don't necessarily have heat for more area, but you have longer burn times?
