Sold the pellets stoves no more of that chaos, today installed my brandy new Jotul 600 CB Firelight, burning it in as we speak. Heating this summer weekend house built with electric heat with a PE Summit plain jane finish, and this Jotul. Arabs going nuts in the Suez canal and the price of cord wood is on the move. For now i'm retired drinking beer with the windows down letting out the stink of this new Jotul.
Burnin in me new Jotul tonite!!
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VCBurner
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I see your a fellow tdi owner! Congrats on that... Great car. I have a 05 with NONE of the emissions components on it. I do performance software on the side for european cars and particularlily love VW.....and burning wood! Nice to meet ya!
I will get pics up b4 the weekend, 2nd home in northern columbia county, NY I got say this Jotul has as nice a burn as the summit, but the temps are uneven in the corners where Jotul tells you to measure temps (using my trusty fluke IR gun) they differ nearly 75deg F left front corner the hottest????? stayed up all night last night breaking it in and putting the wood to it tonight! I keep getting errors when trying to ad pics here, I'll figure it out
remkel
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I enjoy seeing positive reviews about the 600 CB. It is right at the top of my list of replacements for the old Vigilant.
Look forward to continued positive reviews so my shopping will go a lot smoother.
Look forward to continued positive reviews so my shopping will go a lot smoother.
Jimbob
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Jimbob said:A Jotul AND a Summit in 1 house! Wow.....Just Wow!
I know its alot of heat but this house is a split level (4 levels roughly 40 X 70) from the 50's, drafty and tough to get the hot air where i want it to be ( i am now cutting some returns in but every level is finished so its a lot of work) most nights I'm cracking a window in one room and freezing in the other. I suspect I will only need to burn the Summit in the cellar during the fall and spring but I was on these pellet stoves and IMHO they suckThey are as they say "room heaters". So now I'm on the wood, and "WOOD IS GOOD" in more ways than one. My camera is in the Bronx and right now and I'm up here pics will come soon, I am spread out like chit, everything I need here, is there and there, ain't as good as here so I left there and came over here. But now she wants me back over there.
gpcollen1
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While I enjoy wood heat and my stoves, it is most likely not the pellet stoves that suck but your house. Plenty of folks heat their houses with pellet stoves. Like any heater, it helps if your house is well insulated and your heater is properly sized.
bobforsaken
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Diesel Smoke said:
I have a Jotul 12 Firelight and a Harman XXV. I love my Harman and all.. but the heating capacity is night and day. The harman is in a 500SF room that can spill over to supplement the rest of the second floor.. but for the most part I'm heating my whole house with wood.. that room stays about 60 w/o the pellet stove, even on the cold days.. I only use the Harman to heat the rooom on the weekend and most nights when its really cold (since that is my pipe smoking TV room when my wife is watching real housewives or some crap). So far I've only burnt 1 ton of Pellets.. And the only reason I'm even doing that much is because the wood stove has spoiled me to expect mid 70's temps in my house and that room seems cold at 60.
I made this statement in terms of the maintenance (twice a week X 2 stoves), the electrical factor ( when you lose it you've got nothing), the pellet factor (still depending on someone else to supply your fuel) and the fact that they just don't make the BTU's (they use an incredible amout of fuel at fuel tilt) these things don't cut the mustard, and IMHO these things SUCK!! Sure if the house was perfect I could heat it with a light bulb!! But it ain't and back to wood it isCTwoodburner said:
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