Phil, quite the difference. When I first saw the Fireview I laughed. Was amazed that they thought I could heat our home with that little stove. They got the last laugh, sort of. What we got was a stove that heated our home like we wanted and used only 50% or less of the amount of wood we had been burning. In addition, now we no longer had to close off part of the home in order to stay warm. We keep our home 80 degrees or higher all winter long. That may sound hot as it does to most but we did find there definitely is a difference and there is a "soft heat" from these stoves.
Not sure if you have the dimentions but here are some.
Total height: 28"
Height to center of flue (rear exit): 22 3/4"
Total width: 26"
Total depth: 18"
With our stove, we exit straight through the wall (about 1/2" rise per foot of horizontal pipe) then up along side of the house. No chase. No problem. We do have the rear heat shield.
The beast is heavy for sure but that is a definite plus for giving off the heat for a long period. And yes, we do some cooking on this stove too. We have with every stove we've ever owned. The picture below is one I took after building a wood rack to store wood on the porch (It has since been stained). Because the stove is so low, we raised the hearth 16". Both my wife and I have bad backs so we did not want to stoop to put wood in. The 16" proved to be ideal as we have a chair right by the stove. When wood is needed, we simply open that sliding glass door, grab a few sticks and come back in. Sit on chair and load the stove. It works for us.
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I can heat this place with the Ks; He's got more sq.ft. at his place. I like the metallic blue, which I've got on both of my Woodies. It's not blue like in the picture on the web site....more of a medium gray with a faint blue tinge to it.
