Sarah, Please go to my You Tube Channel where I take the Flameview apart and put it back together again and even burned the stove and showed you how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/user/WoodyChain
I did this because few folks could go to a local dealer and see the stove for themselves let alone get a honest answer online. I am amazed at how many folks will buy something and say how wonderful it is, yet they are basically ignorant and have little to base their expertise on. Some are just unwilling to admit what they bought is really junk and they got taken advantage of. Remember I am a firefighter, I run towards the fire, not from it, which means one of two things, either I don't have both oars in the water and am not playing with a full deck......or I have big Kahunas and am not afraid to tell it like it really is. How you perceive what I say and what I do, is your business. I only ask folks to understand, the best looking stove is not always the best stove, I can and do back everything up I say with facts. I base my opinions on what I have learned over the past 33 yrs and the thousands of cookstoves I have sold, as well as the feedback I get from the most important source, our customers.
Here is a playlist of where I show the Flameview .
If you care to call me I would be happy to provide you with the phone numbers of customers who currently have a Flameview or have had one and traded it in for a different cookstove because they either had issues with the stove smoking or being a fire hazard. Some folks think I have an axe to grind with the Margin Stove Company, I don't, I have a special concern for public safety. I have dedicated part of my life to protecting others, that roles over into my stove business which is why we no longer offer this stove. With a background in engineering, I designed and built all this fire equipment,
http://www.youtube.com/user/wildfirefighters/featured
I had hoped to help them make upgrades to the Flameview which would have solved the issues. I do have an axe to grind with the competition, a dealer who will sell you a DVD for $45 that will show you how to put your family and home at risk. The way the dealer installed his Flameview cook stove in their video is in violation of NFPA 211 as it is installed on a wood floor without any protection and uses at least 2 90 degree elbows before entering into a wall thimble and making another 90 before going up the chimney. This means the smoke must do a 270 degree circle before ever going up the chimney. Anyone on this forum will tell you that is crazy and not the way to do things, yet this guy also will sell you chimney pipe? They seem to be an oxymoron as they claim to be "Plain People" (Amish Wannabes) but have a website and sell alternative energy. Having lived amongst the Amish and Mennonites myself, I assure you they have a problem with other folks who try to sell products on their reputation for integrity. They will be the first ones that tell you that they put their pants on one leg at a time just like we do, there are good and bad with them too. Being an ex city slicker turned Montana Mountain Man I have learned allot. Many city slickers and "Preppers" count on us to provide honest answers. We are proud of the reputation we have for being honest and bending over backwards for our customers. We offer the largest selection of cookstoves found anywhere and are scouring the world for more. If we don't offer a product, there is a reason. Few dealers are willing to put their money where there mouth is and stand behind what they sell like we will.
As far as a stove that will heat 1400 sq ft. we'll need a little more info to make a recommendation. Stuff like your budget, where your at and what your heating, a Yurt takes a lot more to heat than a well insulated home. A two story house is easier to heat than a ranch. We offer lots of cookstoves that would do the job. The JA Roby was probably recommended because your asking for a cookstove that has a glass door. Unfortunately they are in the middle of getting a bunch of new fireplaces UL listed and it is taking longer than they hoped, so the Cuisiniere is not going to be UL listed for our US customers for a while yet. That will limit your choices in the US to the ESSE Ironheart and the Bakers Oven. If you talk to anyone who uses a cookstove daily to heat and cook, they will tell you that a glass door so you can view the fire should be low on your list of features. You first concern should be how well it heats, then how well it cooks, then how easy it is to operate and maintain, least of all should be if you can watch the fire. The cookstove that we have great reviews on and have never had anyone want to return is the Kitchen Queen 480 and 380. We have designed glass doors that will be available as soon as the fabricator gets the face-plate stamper bugs worked out. The doors can be added as an option and when you want to view the fire, you would swap out the door. We tested the doors last winter and they worked great, now we just need to make them look pretty. We understand how important it is for some folks to view the fire, for many years when our children were growing up here in our Montana Mountain Homestead, we called the ability to watch the fire in our woodstove, "Yaak TV" as we did not have a TV so we'd spend many hours sitting by the fire, thinking or reading. It was very peaceful and serene.
We personally own 3 cookstoves, the Kitchen Queen 380, the Ironheart and the Vermont Bun Baker. I do still have the demo stove that we used to make the Flameview video and burned last winter, we'll make someone a sweet deal on, if your sure your really want it. My phone number is 800 968 8604 call me if you have questions and you want honest answers, not sales hype to sell you a cookstove.
We wish you success in your quest for a cookstove that will serve your needs well for many years.
Woody Chain