Hello,
This is my first post. There's really nothing I can add to the knowledge already on this forum, but I've done my time helping out on other forums where I have some expertise. So I'm hoping for a little ying to go with the yang.
I've done a lot of general reading in this forum, and it helped me immensely with safety and temperatures with my old 70's Nashua in my basement. I can also heartily recommend the Kintrex IRT0421 thermometer. It eliminated all kinds of guessing and got me to run the stove hot enough to prevent so much creosote.
I'm going to put a wood stove in the upstairs soon. I want a recirculating unit. My fireplace has a corner, and none of my browsing has shown me any models with a faceplate and a "right-hand side", if that makes any sense. I'll try to add photos to this post.
We may have had a tornado here 5/25/11, and I've ended up with 5 cords of wood. One is seasoned oak, one is green sugar maple, and three are cherry. I plan on burning the cherry since carpenter ants had gotten to that tree, and half of it is very dry. I use 1.5 cords a year in the basement. The point of this paragraph is that the splits are inconsistent sizes, because a lot of it was cut in the heat of battle getting the trees off my house.
Some of the splits are big enough I'd worry about overfire putting them in the big Nashua. I'm assuming that new woodstoves have smaller fireboxes. Can anyone make any recommendations as to brands I might consider and if I'll need an electric splitter to halve some of the larger splits for a new stove?
So the two real questions I know of are-
1. Do any or all of the manufacturers address a corner installation?
2. Will I need to address these larger splits with a modern firebox?
Thanks in advance,
Greg
This is my first post. There's really nothing I can add to the knowledge already on this forum, but I've done my time helping out on other forums where I have some expertise. So I'm hoping for a little ying to go with the yang.
I've done a lot of general reading in this forum, and it helped me immensely with safety and temperatures with my old 70's Nashua in my basement. I can also heartily recommend the Kintrex IRT0421 thermometer. It eliminated all kinds of guessing and got me to run the stove hot enough to prevent so much creosote.
I'm going to put a wood stove in the upstairs soon. I want a recirculating unit. My fireplace has a corner, and none of my browsing has shown me any models with a faceplate and a "right-hand side", if that makes any sense. I'll try to add photos to this post.
We may have had a tornado here 5/25/11, and I've ended up with 5 cords of wood. One is seasoned oak, one is green sugar maple, and three are cherry. I plan on burning the cherry since carpenter ants had gotten to that tree, and half of it is very dry. I use 1.5 cords a year in the basement. The point of this paragraph is that the splits are inconsistent sizes, because a lot of it was cut in the heat of battle getting the trees off my house.
Some of the splits are big enough I'd worry about overfire putting them in the big Nashua. I'm assuming that new woodstoves have smaller fireboxes. Can anyone make any recommendations as to brands I might consider and if I'll need an electric splitter to halve some of the larger splits for a new stove?
So the two real questions I know of are-
1. Do any or all of the manufacturers address a corner installation?
2. Will I need to address these larger splits with a modern firebox?
Thanks in advance,
Greg