After having my fireview for a year now, I finally was able to install it yesterday!! Praise the Lord!!
Burned a few well seasoned pine splits and just a few pine and spruce lumber scraps yesterday evening and last night. There's still a lot of learning to do but overall everything went pretty well. (Thanks to all who posted their experiences with the fireview The learning curve would have been much steeper without reading your posts!) I was really surprised at how sensitive the damper is when you have it throttled down and the cat lit. An 1/8 of an inch opened or closed makes the difference between having visible flame and no flame at all. I also installed a cat thermometer in mine and I am glad I did, it seems to give a much better indication of where the cat temps are at. I set my stove up outside last year and did the burn in fires and was never happy using the top thermometer, just too much lag IMHO...
One thing I know for sure is that the heat didn't come on once in the old part of our house and we were much warmer!!
Again, many thanks to Slow, Todd and Savage (and any others I have spoken to on here).
Kenny {
Burned a few well seasoned pine splits and just a few pine and spruce lumber scraps yesterday evening and last night. There's still a lot of learning to do but overall everything went pretty well. (Thanks to all who posted their experiences with the fireview The learning curve would have been much steeper without reading your posts!) I was really surprised at how sensitive the damper is when you have it throttled down and the cat lit. An 1/8 of an inch opened or closed makes the difference between having visible flame and no flame at all. I also installed a cat thermometer in mine and I am glad I did, it seems to give a much better indication of where the cat temps are at. I set my stove up outside last year and did the burn in fires and was never happy using the top thermometer, just too much lag IMHO...
One thing I know for sure is that the heat didn't come on once in the old part of our house and we were much warmer!!
Again, many thanks to Slow, Todd and Savage (and any others I have spoken to on here).
Kenny {