I have been snooping around this site for about a month now and finaly made up my mind on hat stove to get. I'm getting the Quadrafire 4300 steptop. I like the looks of the stove and it should be more then enough stove for my home. For the stove,the pad it will be on, all the stove pipe and class A chimney through the celling plus labor was $4800.
I have a Ashly woodstove down in the cellar the kind that has a auto damper in it, I heated the house last winter with it and it did a decent job so I cant wait to see what my new Quad will do. I burned about 5 cords of wood last year, I bought 10 cord tree length last winter thats been cut and split since april. the 10 cords turned out to be about 13 cords so it worked out great filled my woodshed plus probable 1 1/2 -2 cords that wouldnt fit in the shed staked out side the shed. 80% of it was beech, with some maple ,yellow birch, and some ash in it as well. So I should have enough wood for the next couple of years, this sept. I will staret cutting another 5 cord of mostly oak from my buddy down the road. Ill try to get a pick of the stove after its installed, plus a pic of my stack of wood
I have a Ashly woodstove down in the cellar the kind that has a auto damper in it, I heated the house last winter with it and it did a decent job so I cant wait to see what my new Quad will do. I burned about 5 cords of wood last year, I bought 10 cord tree length last winter thats been cut and split since april. the 10 cords turned out to be about 13 cords so it worked out great filled my woodshed plus probable 1 1/2 -2 cords that wouldnt fit in the shed staked out side the shed. 80% of it was beech, with some maple ,yellow birch, and some ash in it as well. So I should have enough wood for the next couple of years, this sept. I will staret cutting another 5 cord of mostly oak from my buddy down the road. Ill try to get a pick of the stove after its installed, plus a pic of my stack of wood
