Hi,
I have the Pacific Energy Artisan in the far corner of our 2nd floor, which is the main living floor/area. It did ok but the bedrooms were always cold, especially the master bedroom & it's bathroom. Never again will I put a wood stove on one end of the house. It will go in a more central location. So, we added a second wood stove on the 2nd floor, an Englander 13NCL, when we expanded the master bedroom into a master bedroom suite. I like this stove but my wife thinks it is a little "rough" in how it burns and she loves the PE Artisan. But, the Englander works good for it's intended purpose, heating the master bedroom suite, so for now the Englander stays. I will add a blower to it this next month and it will help even more with heating the entire 2nd floor when combined with the Artisan's heating capability.
The question now is we would like to add a 3rd stove to the house, and it would be on the 1st floor. This is the garage, game room, theater room, etc. floor so this floor is not used daily but more like weekly. And, once again, on the next house there will be no 2nd floor. We will go with a 1-story house. But, right now the 1st floor is pretty chilly so we would like a stove we can load up with wood and let burn away, heating the floor space of approximately 1,100 square feet. This new stove will be placed on an outside wall but in a central location of the entire 1st floor. My preference is a non-cat stove as the other two stoves are non-cat stoves so I would like to keep the operation of all three stoves the same, and not have to do something different for one stove.
My thoughts are a soapstone stove as I think they can hold the heat for longer periods of times but I am not sure. I am considering the Woodstock and Hearthstone stoves based on the comments I have read on this site. Anyone have anything to say I should consider as to what kind of stove I should consider? I was thinking a stove that did not have any windows/glass on it, going for more of a heater/furnace look but that would have to be approved by my wife 1st. We are at 7,000 feet in the foothils above Albuquerque and we get snow about 6 - 7 times per year, when Albuquerque gets snow about 1 - 2 times per year. We are regularly in the low - mid teens, and occasionally drop to single digit temps. We do have radiant in-floor heat but we keep that temp at about 60 degrees due to the cost of propane used to fire the boiler, which also heats our domestic water supply.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I have the Pacific Energy Artisan in the far corner of our 2nd floor, which is the main living floor/area. It did ok but the bedrooms were always cold, especially the master bedroom & it's bathroom. Never again will I put a wood stove on one end of the house. It will go in a more central location. So, we added a second wood stove on the 2nd floor, an Englander 13NCL, when we expanded the master bedroom into a master bedroom suite. I like this stove but my wife thinks it is a little "rough" in how it burns and she loves the PE Artisan. But, the Englander works good for it's intended purpose, heating the master bedroom suite, so for now the Englander stays. I will add a blower to it this next month and it will help even more with heating the entire 2nd floor when combined with the Artisan's heating capability.
The question now is we would like to add a 3rd stove to the house, and it would be on the 1st floor. This is the garage, game room, theater room, etc. floor so this floor is not used daily but more like weekly. And, once again, on the next house there will be no 2nd floor. We will go with a 1-story house. But, right now the 1st floor is pretty chilly so we would like a stove we can load up with wood and let burn away, heating the floor space of approximately 1,100 square feet. This new stove will be placed on an outside wall but in a central location of the entire 1st floor. My preference is a non-cat stove as the other two stoves are non-cat stoves so I would like to keep the operation of all three stoves the same, and not have to do something different for one stove.
My thoughts are a soapstone stove as I think they can hold the heat for longer periods of times but I am not sure. I am considering the Woodstock and Hearthstone stoves based on the comments I have read on this site. Anyone have anything to say I should consider as to what kind of stove I should consider? I was thinking a stove that did not have any windows/glass on it, going for more of a heater/furnace look but that would have to be approved by my wife 1st. We are at 7,000 feet in the foothils above Albuquerque and we get snow about 6 - 7 times per year, when Albuquerque gets snow about 1 - 2 times per year. We are regularly in the low - mid teens, and occasionally drop to single digit temps. We do have radiant in-floor heat but we keep that temp at about 60 degrees due to the cost of propane used to fire the boiler, which also heats our domestic water supply.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
