Englander NC30 YES OR NO

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westside

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Mar 3, 2010
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First time poster, been lurking on the site for some time now. Would like to get some opinions from some of the pro's here on the site. I am located in Southeast Indiana and I have a 1600 sq ft ranch doublewide home and was wanting to know if the Englander NC30 would be to big and run us out of the house from to much heat or would the NC 13 be more suited for heating this amount of space. We have a 3ft uninsulated dirt floor crawl space covered with 6 mil poly, with concrete block underpinning, 2x6 inch sidewalls on the home and double paned windows. Also looking for stove that can provide an overnight burn.
 
Well, the room with the stove is probably going to be toasty but overall it should do OK assuming average insulation IMO. That's about the size of the area we heat with ours. For low heat output I've found this stove does best with short, hot fires every so often.
 
My concern is that manufactured housing is notoriously tight and well insulated. If you load the 30 up for the long burn it could get mighty hot all over that place. If you load smaller loads to prevent that you might as well be burning a 13 or other smaller stove than the 30. If "overnight" is going to bed at eleven and getting up at six the 13 should still have some heat and coals left.
 
I realize manufactured homes have come a long way in todays world. But once living in a mobile home with a wood stove I realize the floor is going to be the coldest spot in the home. And if the floor is cool, it will make those hard to reach heating places harder to keep warm. I believe the 13 is rated for 1200sq ft, so it may have its hands full, but a lot will depend on what wood you have access to. I wouldnt hesitate to go larger.
 
Thanks guys for all the input . I'm leaning more towards the nc 30 because of the longer burn times . For years we have been useing a zero clearance martin 36 fireplace located at one end of the house and it does a decent job of keeping the house around 68-70 degrees until the outside temps drop to around 20 degrees , then we have to use the propane furnace. Also tired of having to continually feed the fireplace. We've already went thru 6 cords of wood this year. The nc 13 is rated for 1800 sq. ft. but from the reviews i've read it's more like 1000 sq. ft. in the real world.

I plan on putting the stove in the center of the house to get better heat distribution thru out for the colder temps and use the fireplace when the temps allow.
 

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LoschCoalStoker said:
Remenber you get what you pay for

I know I sure did. :lol:
 
I burn a 30 in a 1600 sqft. house that was built in 1996. It's pretty well insulated and has proven to be very easy to heat.

This is my second full year with the stove, and I've gotten much better at learning how to burn it so as not to run us out of the house.

Last winter, average temps in the stove room were mid 80's, this year, average temps have been mid to high 70's.

I like to know that I have a stove that is more than capable of keeping our place warm when it's below zero plus a nasty wind chill.

With the 30, you'll probably find you can get by burning two loads a day for most of the winter.

-SF
 
SlyFerret said:
I burn a 30 in a 1600 sqft. house that was built in 1996. It's pretty well insulated and has proven to be very easy to heat.

This is my second full year with the stove, and I've gotten much better at learning how to burn it so as not to run us out of the house.

Last winter, average temps in the stove room were mid 80's, this year, average temps have been mid to high 70's.

I like to know that I have a stove that is more than capable of keeping our place warm when it's below zero plus a nasty wind chill.

With the 30, you'll probably find you can get by burning two loads a day for most of the winter.

-SF

Sounds like great advice from SlyFerret....as usual. ;-)

The 13 is just not an over-nighter IMHO
 
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