Stove opinions

[yak651]

Looking to supplement heat in my basement I'm finishing off, about 1,000 sq. feet. Looking at St. Croix Hastins and Harman P43. Both about $3.3k for stove, venting, installation, 600 lbs pellets and "log sets". Any opinons on these stoves and prices? Searched and found some comments on both, going to look a little more but want to decide before finishing my framing of basement in case i need to make some modifications to my basement layout.

 

[bobforsaken]

I was looking at both the Harman stoves and the St. Croix Hastings. For me, I really wanted a cast iron so the Harman's I looked at were the accentra and xxv vs the Hastings. I ended up getting the xxv because of the dealer and I'm extremely happy with the stove. I was told many times that the dealer is an important factor.. perhaps the most important.

My 2 cents.. if the dealers are comparable, I think you'd be happy with the Harman... but I think the price of the Hastings may be a better deal... as I recall the Hastings was $800 dollars more than the 43 when I was looking. One thing I'd recommend you research further on this board regarding the Hastings is the Versagrate system...... lots of complaints but there may be simple fixes.

 

[slclem]

I really like my XXV.

 

[imacman]

Looking to supplement heat in my basement I'm finishing off, about 1,000 sq. feet. Looking at St. Croix Hastins and Harman P43. Both about $3.3k for stove, venting, installation, 600 lbs pellets and "log sets". Any opinons on these stoves and prices? Searched and found some comments on both, going to look a little more but want to decide before finishing my framing of basement in case i need to make some modifications to my basement layout.

No real opinion on the stoves, but log sets for pellet stoves are not worth the $$ unless it comes free w/ the stove. makes cleaning harder to do.