New Jotul Firelight 12

Well, I finally have my second big cat stove, another Jotul Firelight 12. Not sure it's the right stove for this situation, but we'll give it a try for a year or two, while we wait for something better to come along.

Very clean, with a new paint job, new gaskets all around, and new inner and rear burn plates. Cat chamber is rough, but useable, cat is supposedly 1 year old. Would've gotten pic's, but it's still sitting in my pickup in the garage. Didn't get home with it until 10pm.

Sounds like your patience has paid off...


You love the one you have. You already know how to operate it? Sounds like a winner to me.

But you know.... Pics, or it never happened

... or my impatience, as it may be.

I've had open hearth fireplaces my entire life, and last year was my first with a stove. It was an unusually warm year. It was my first year in a new house, and my wood was not properly seasoned. A squirrel got into our stove in January, destroyed the cat chamber, and we didn't get the replacement parts to put the stove back to use until March. The flue on my other stove is too large, masonry, and too short.

So... I wouldn't say I know how to operate anything quite right yet, but thanks to all the reading I've done on this forum, I feel like I'm pretty well on my way.

Got it off the truck. Here it is.

Those are beautiful stoves... Its a shame they dont make a Cat model anymore.

They seem to have a winner with the 12. Its now the F600, correct? ?

Yep! The castings from the 12 were re-used for the F600, as near as I can tell. According to Mark at Jotul, they added some new interior bosses, etc., to permit the installation of the new non-cat hardware, but from the exterior they're the same stove.

I agree... it's a real shame Jotul doesn't make a cat stove anymore. I spoke with a few people at Jotul about this, pointing out how well BK is doing with their cat stoves, despite being less attractive than most Jotuls. They all agreed there are advantages to cat stoves for those using them for heating, but conceeded that they had more warranty issues with their cat stoves, due to too many customers not following simple directions. No painted wood, no pressure treated, and no green wood. Not so difficult.

Timeless I say. Jotuls look just like a piece of nice furniture.

Not difficult at all.... Even Secondary burn stoves need dry wood... But a Cat is much more sensitive to clogging.

It would be nice if they still made a 3 cu ft Cat. Jotul is one of the prettiest stoves out there. IMO

Very nice looking stove...glad you found one just like the one you have...saves time figuring out how to run a new stove.

Nice looking stove. Nothing like two large stoves to keep an old house warm.

What did this one set you back?

Thanks! I paid $1500, which is not a great deal, but I think it's a fair price for the new parts and labor this guy had into it. I had seen $900 - $950 asking price on a half dozen of these stoves in need of serious rehab, and this one was nicely rebuilt and freshly stripped / repainted, with new inner and rear burn plates and fresh gaskets all 'round. The seller rebuilds stoves as a side business, and had about 40 of them stacked up in his shop.

I think an F600 goes for something like $3300, although I don't know what the F12's brought in their day. In the end, it was more about finding a pretty cat stove than what it cost. I'd have paid many times more for a BK, if it looked like a Jotul.

1,500 isn't bad at all. Enjoy the stove!