hounddog said:
my chimney is masonry block , with a clay reddish -orange insert, the only tar like creosote is near where the stove pipe goes into the chimney and on down to the clean out door , its not caked on , you can just see it here and there where it ran down .cleaned chimney , at start of season. and nothing was in chimney all the way down to the stove pipe entrance. one question with the chimney cap,? is it gonna change the way my stove drafts? this stove was in my house when we bought it a yr ago... just waiting for money to update stove , is there a place that sells newer type epa stoves? i thank you all for your help,.
ask for epa secondary burn stoves or epa cat stove.
A cat stove has a catalytic converter that has 2 be replaced every 3 to 6 yrs & cost $200.oo to 350.oo,allowing for inflation, so maybe secondary burn be less expensive for you.
www.overstockstoves.com & look for an englander stove to match the sq. ft of your house.
www. lowes.com, sells summersheat, same as englander,parts interchange,made same factory. Both are secondary burn stoves. No expensive cats to replace.
www.homedepot.com
www.englanderstoves.com
www.acehardware.com
www.truetemperhardware.com
It is better , IMHO , to buy a stove rated slightly larger than the sq. ft you want to heat, so that when it gets really ,really cold, you have some extra heat to cope with the chill, or if you should decide to add another room to the heat load that you originally thought not to heat. With a slightly larger stove, you have that flexability & a larger firebox will give you a 8 or 10 hr overnight burn. A mid sized stove may not give you a overnite burn at all & a small sized stove definately won't.
small stove =------- 1,000 to 1,200 sq.ft
medium stove= 1200 to 1400 sq
large = 1400 to 1800 sq
extra large = 1800 to 2000 sq
xxlarge= 1800-2700 sq ft
about a $400.oo price difference between the smallest & largest in the englander brand name.
More expensive stoves can have a 1200.oo price difference between their small to xxlarge sizes, depending on a lot of options & etc.
A lot of the extra $ that you spend on a stove is for brand reconition & cosmetic looks.
IMHO, englander, 800.oo, plain jane black to 1295.oo, with gold earings, for large size, is as well made as any of them, if no wheres near as pretty; so it might come down to do you want to impress someone with your pretty Mercadies Benz expensive stove or do you just want to save $ & be warm with your honda stove.
Just my "take " on things,many here love their mercadies stoves, & I don't blame them, a bit.
It's all about what you want 4 your $. I'm a most bang 4 the buck ,type.Others are like,wow,I love just looking at that stove & boy does it throw the btu's. Best 3,900.oo I ever spent!
do a
www.ask.com search for wood stoves