Proportionately we probably have about as much glass area. 2 loads per day is what we average. 3 on extra cold days. 9 yrs now, no clogging.
Touche' on the clogging. Advantage PE, there. Of course, I think my problem is entirely self-inflicted, due to my crazy-stupid-tall chimney. There are thousands of BK users out there, and likely hundreds on this forum alone, and I'm one of the only two or three people reporting this problem. Even at that, it's only one on of my two stoves. The other stove on a 15 foot pipe has no issue.
My 1990's addition is all glass. There are 4 sets of glass double French doors + 13 very large (almost door sized) double hung windows + 16 large transom windows. All that is heated by the stove on the 15 foot pipe, which never clogs, and heats that space on one load every 24 hours. Advantage BK, there.
Im sure you have your setup down to perfection. But if you could do something to better it or to say would you do something different what would you do?
Hah... you haven't been reading. If you had, you'd know I'm just winging it! No perfection, here... but I'm having a heck of a lot of fun.
The only thing I'd do different, if I could go back, would have been to switch to BK sooner. When I'd hear the BK fanboys say crap like that, I always took it as them fluffing themselves, but it really is true. I hate myself for fighting with those old Jotuls, for several years.
If this were any other house, I'd put insulation near the top of the list of things I'd do different. However, this is a historic house, and at least eight generations of prior owners have managed to keep it original. I'm not going to be the one to mess with that track record, all repairs are being handled using original materials and methods, and I even chose to forego weatherstripping on my windows, as I've been rebuilding each. My one concession is that I have added storm windows, but they're nice wooden storm windows of your great-grandparents' variety, not those ugly triple-tracks.
Ashful, I would think what you do would get old real quick. Your feeding 3 stoves and still use 3000 gal of oil? Lotta work and money dude. Any idea how much wood you go through every year. Wouldn't two kings have worked out better than the ashford's?
Sorry, maybe I mis-spoke. The prior owner used 2400 - 2700 gallons of oil per year, and we were on track to hit the same numbers our first year here, prior to getting into wood burning. Of course, that was keeping the house cooler all night and while we were away during the day, and still burning that amount of oil.
Now, with two stoves, we keep the house 70F - 75F all day every day (and all night too). We have averaged 1000 gallons of oil per year, over the last five years, while heating with wood. To do the same without the stoves, I'm sure we'd be quite a bit over 3000 gal. of oil, but I've never cared to do the math on that. I do recall once figuring that one cord of oak (mostly what I burn) is roughly equivalent to 215 gallons of oil, based on assumed efficiencies for each appliance. If that's true, I'm saving 1200 to 2000 gallons of oil per hear, based on my 6 - 10 cords burned each year.
I'm only burning two stoves, now. I think I may have said "3 loads per day", as I'm doing 2 loads per day in one stove, and 1 load in the other. Burn times are set to fit the loading schedule, not my heating needs. Hence the 1000 gallons per year of oil we're still burning.