Stove for Sun Room

[Rancherii]

Know I am little nuts but! Have a 300 sq ft sun room with concrete floor with radiant heat. Would like to have small wood stove more for aesthetics then heat. On 10 to 20 degree day with sun, it can get to 76 pretty quick after radiant heats room to seventy overnight if you do not draw shades. Any ideas on small stove that could put out less than 18 to 20 K BTU's that would not overheat the room?

 

[ddddddden]

http://www.woodstove.com/fireview
I have one of these in a 300-sq-ft room. Easy on the eyes. Nice secondary flames. Low output, if desired.

This one is a bit smaller, with a few different features.
http://www.woodstove.com/keystone

Their new steel stove looks interesting too, but I think the stone looks nicer.
http://www.woodstove.com/new-absolute-steel-hybrid

Also see BK for low output capability.

http://www.blazeking.com/EN/wood-ashford20.html

http://www.blazeking.com/EN/wood-chinook20.html

 

[Burn Time]

Congrats on your sun room. I have one about the same size and it heats the house on a sunny winter day. Maybe we should compare sun room notes off the grid, so to speak. I do question why you have shades in a sun room. You will want a tiny stove in 300 sf, or else you will drive your self out. You will also want a stove that does not have great temperature swings. Since most stoves really pump out the heat during the stage in which they are burning wood down to a bed of coals, there is nearly no way to experience overheating at the beginning. You sort of have two choices: A cast iron, which you can feed frequently in small amounts, or A soapstone, which you fire up to allow the stone to absorb heat, then you sit back and enjoy the heat radiating off the stone for hours. Everybody has opinions, so I will offer mine. I've run a Vermont Castings Resolute Acclaim for 26 years. It has a rear chamber of refractory material. When you have a bed of coals, you close a damper and force the VOCs down through the red hot coals and then through tubes in the refractory material for secondary combustion. Very efficient. It's a nice stove. I don't know the BTU rating. I believe Vermont Castings still makes the model, even though it's not the same ownership it was 26 years ago. I have at two year old Hearthstone Mansfield, an 80k BTU stove, a monster. It's in my basement a half flight down from my sunroom. So, I leave the door open for the heat to drift up into the sunroom and the rest of the house. It also performs best after you've built a deep bed of live coals. After the initial burn down, it will keep radiating heat for six to 12 hours (depending on your wood and your damper settings).

 

[begreen]

There are several small stoves that would be good evening chill chasers for this space. What style do you want and what price?

In a sunroom one thing you may run into is a short chimney which can lead to poor draft. If the flue system height is only 10-12' the list of stoves that will work well gets short quickly. Most require at least a 15' total flue.