I honestly seeing very little benefit from the bk that was lent to me. Yes it is more even heat and I like that without a doubt. but I am saving no wood and I am getting pretty much the same burn times to heat the house to the same temps. I do like the stove but not enough to justify the extra expense and the fact that I cleaned the chimney today and got more than I ever have with my tube stove over a full season.
Few things are scarier than the thought of a Russian hacker turning my stove down in the middle of a cold winter night.
It was a brand new cat to start the season. What do you mean how many fires am I starting a month? The same as with the non cat none it never goes out. Yes in the 2 weeks of fall we had I would have started a few in the regency. But not now.
No matter how many times I say this, it still goes un-understood by some; If it's not cold out, I burn half a load of medium-output wood in my 1.5 cu.ft. stove. My house doesn't vary more than a couple (2) degrees over the next 24 hrs, even though I haven't made any effort to burn particularly low, and our log house has some air leaks and no wall insulation. So why would I need a super-low burn? To make sure the room temp only changes one degree? That's way down the list of what I need from a stove. Not even on the list, in fact. Besides, there have been a number of BK owners are reporting here that they can't turn their stoves down very low anyway, without gunking their chimneys or smelling smoke.
Is it a light wall liner or heavy wall? Light wall it is possible but extremely unlikely. Heavy wall no way
Looks like I got back the time I wasted on top-down starts.
I look mid-winter but have only been brushing once a year. But some might be more concerned with creo than I am..I get about 1.5 qts. when I brush. Most is at the top so I don't worry about it much.
It’s not that we don’t understand, Woody. It’s just that you’re making wrong assumptions, and we sometimes choose not to argue with you.
I thought you have a cat stove. I didn't Know You have a tube stove. Well when it is okay to do small load cause including BK manual recommend that in case you overheating your house/space, you can do small loads. Why to go thru of that hassle doing small load when you can fill it up and keep it on low. If a house stay warm with a small load that give out all those BTU in 3hrs and stay warm for the whole day, it will do the same with the same load if burn slower. I know you said ( if is warm outside). Then what is the advantage of having a cat stove?
Again no one has ever claimed non cats will run as low as cats. Just that running low doesn't matter very much to some of us. In your climate clearly it would
I see more smoke from the bk than i ever did the regency. It still is not much at all but more without a doubt. You do realize there are tube stoves that burn cleaner than sime bks right?
No, over the course burn cycle, not when the stove is out. So the temp will rise a couple degrees after the half-load burn, then fall a couple. The coals last a while so the heat cycle is a pretty long time, obviously. Maybe the little bit of soapstone, or the thermal-mass 1" wall covering smooths the temp swing out a bit, but I've noticed pretty much the same situation at my BIL's 1500 sq.ft. stick-construction house with the Fireview in it. Not a big swing over the course of a day in mild weather when he lets the stove burn out.
That's my point, you can do it either way and the house temp won't vary much in mild weather, so the slow burn isn't really needed. I'm pretty sure I could do it just as well with a tube stove in that weather. The cat is an advantage to me when burning full loads in colder weather, where it will smooth out the heat curve and not roast us out at the beginning. But with a tube stove, there are ways around that, with a jacketed stove or a couple partial loads if you want. If you're gone all day, roasting out the stove room a little isn't even a problem for the daytime burn.
