Hi. I've been a very quiet observer in the firewood and stove forums for quite a while now. I've loved this group of people from the minute I first stumbled upon it over a year ago. Me? I live outside of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. I've been burning wood in my shop for about 5 years (bought a Newmac 100-WB wood furnace last year), and slowly but steadily have become addicted to all things firewood, to the point that I processed and sold almost 50 cord of hard wood last year (1/2 in cords and half in bundles). I've pretty much cut out the cord business during 2013 because I'm doing a booming business selling bundles year round. And did I mention that I've learned a heck of a lot from these forums? That's an understatement!
So now to the point. The house, just under 1000 square feet bungalow (2 bedrooms, kitchen and large central living area upstairs, and completely open, unfinished basement, ICF foundation with cement floor). There has never been wood burning set up for the house. I switched from oil to a air to air heat pump a couple of years ago, and while I don't hate it (especially in the summer), it still doesn't give me the nice warmth that I need (especially cool floors and such), and it cost a pretty penny about 3 months of the winter when the auxiliary heating element has to kick in quite regularly. So I want to put a wood stove down in the basement to run during the winter and keep me and the wife nice and toasty. The wood stove wood be located almost square in the middle of the basement, right underneath the old chimney which was used for the oil furnace (which is obviously getting a brand new wood burning chimney piped up through the old chimney zone). This in turn is about 6 feet or so away from the main open stairwell which leads up into the central zone of the house (the middle of the living room).
I have 2 choices to consider: number 1 is the Timberwolf 2200 wood stove with ICC Excel chimney, and number 2 is the True North TN19 wood stove with Selkirk SuperPro chimney, both straight up through existing chases & attic and straight out through the metal roof. Both stoves have 1.9 cubic foot capacity and seems at first glance to be almost identical. The Timberwolf quote is about $100.00 more than the True North. Any thoughts, opinions, feedback would be most kindly appreciated.
Cheers,
Keith
So now to the point. The house, just under 1000 square feet bungalow (2 bedrooms, kitchen and large central living area upstairs, and completely open, unfinished basement, ICF foundation with cement floor). There has never been wood burning set up for the house. I switched from oil to a air to air heat pump a couple of years ago, and while I don't hate it (especially in the summer), it still doesn't give me the nice warmth that I need (especially cool floors and such), and it cost a pretty penny about 3 months of the winter when the auxiliary heating element has to kick in quite regularly. So I want to put a wood stove down in the basement to run during the winter and keep me and the wife nice and toasty. The wood stove wood be located almost square in the middle of the basement, right underneath the old chimney which was used for the oil furnace (which is obviously getting a brand new wood burning chimney piped up through the old chimney zone). This in turn is about 6 feet or so away from the main open stairwell which leads up into the central zone of the house (the middle of the living room).
I have 2 choices to consider: number 1 is the Timberwolf 2200 wood stove with ICC Excel chimney, and number 2 is the True North TN19 wood stove with Selkirk SuperPro chimney, both straight up through existing chases & attic and straight out through the metal roof. Both stoves have 1.9 cubic foot capacity and seems at first glance to be almost identical. The Timberwolf quote is about $100.00 more than the True North. Any thoughts, opinions, feedback would be most kindly appreciated.
Cheers,
Keith
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