I've been researching wood stoves to install in an unheated outbuilding, a carriage house that I use as a rec room. The building is 25x40 with open ceiling ranging from 14' to 21'. It is completely uninsulated and that isn't going to change in the short term. I currently use a 75k BTU propane bullet heater to warm it up on occasion which is more than up to the task.
I suspect most people would suggest a large non-cat stove for my space, but I think I'll often want to do low and long which has be thinking about a large cat stove, possibly supplemented with a permanently installed propane heater. Due to the fact that I have a dealer close by, I've been looking at the Regency 5100.
When I spoke to the dealer, he suggested the Regency 3100 instead, pointing out that it had a higher square footage rating than the 5100. He suggested that the 3100 could pump out a little more heat where the 5100 was optimized for long run times. Will I be sacrificing heat output if I go with the 5100? The two stoves I've considered at are the Blaze King and the 5100. Are there other big stoves that I should be looking at?
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I suspect most people would suggest a large non-cat stove for my space, but I think I'll often want to do low and long which has be thinking about a large cat stove, possibly supplemented with a permanently installed propane heater. Due to the fact that I have a dealer close by, I've been looking at the Regency 5100.
When I spoke to the dealer, he suggested the Regency 3100 instead, pointing out that it had a higher square footage rating than the 5100. He suggested that the 3100 could pump out a little more heat where the 5100 was optimized for long run times. Will I be sacrificing heat output if I go with the 5100? The two stoves I've considered at are the Blaze King and the 5100. Are there other big stoves that I should be looking at?
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