What brand is this?!

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Kmiles

Kmiles

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We just moved into our new home in Ohio and living in Florida most of my life I've never seen one of these. The person we purchased the home from said it works GREAT and heats up the entire 2500sq ft house. He mentioned it has the added fan on it (I guess to further circulate) but we are unsure if we want to keep it since we have a VERY curious 2 year old.

I think this is the Goldilocks model and it looks to be in great shape from what I've seen online.

How much could we sell/expect to get for this particular stove?
 
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"Brand" is manufacturer which would be Fisher International.
Model would be "Fisher Fireplace Insert".
Fisher appliances with legs or a single pedestal are stoves, compared to a yours which is an "Insert".
A Goldilocks is a pedestal stove for mobile home use.

Starting here will identify any Fisher heating appliance; https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/everything-fisher.48309/ AND give you a bit of history of invention as well as options, in your case brass plated doors and blowers. The sticky section at top of Fisher forum home page has the owners manual for it as well.
Searching for the particular model using search feature at top right will give you plenty of threads and details.

If the door is latched in your photo, the latch needs adjusting.
 
Thank you!

The latches are not locked, I had opened it to see the inside.

My main concern is use during the winter, with my two year old I'm worried that she will touch the surface and burn herself. We know the fireplace and home heat work perfectly so I have considered selling this piece.

I just can't find how much these typical models go for, I'm not sure if there are forums to aid in pricing of these units. I have seen a couple listed for $500 without the additional blower, but not sure if that is to much.

Any additional guidance with this is MUCH appreciated
 
Kmiles said:
Thank you!

The latches are not locked, I had opened it to see the inside.

My main concern is use during the winter, with my two year old I'm worried that she will touch the surface and burn herself. We know the fireplace and home heat work perfectly so I have considered selling this piece.

I just can't find how much these typical models go for, I'm not sure if there are forums to aid in pricing of these units. I have seen a couple listed for $500 without the additional blower, but not sure if that is to much.

Any additional guidance with this is MUCH appreciated
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$500 may be a decent starting point it will depend on the market in your area. Here you typically wont get more than $300 for any old plate steel stove like that. But in other areas they will go for more that $500.

As far as your 2 year old people worry about that to much in my experience. Stoves are hot enough they will know long before they touch it that it is to hot. I grew up around stoves and never burn my self on one. Atleast not as a kid I have plenty of times as an adult but I work on stoves everyday and sometimes they are hot. And my kids are growing up around mine and my parents and have never touched them.

If you are going to use it it needs to have a liner attached to it going to the top of the chimney. It is not safe to have them just slid into the fireplace.
 
I'd keep it and have some wood on hand in case the power goes out. No power means no heat and the winters are cold in Ohio.
 
Kmiles said:
Thank you!

The latches are not locked, I had opened it to see the inside.

My main concern is use during the winter, with my two year old I'm worried that she will touch the surface and burn herself. We know the fireplace and home heat work perfectly so I have considered selling this piece.

I just can't find how much these typical models go for, I'm not sure if there are forums to aid in pricing of these units. I have seen a couple listed for $500 without the additional blower, but not sure if that is to much.

Any additional guidance with this is MUCH appreciated
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I have 2 little ones that grew up with a woodstove. My son is 4.5 and my daughter is almost 3. I have had absolutely zero incidents where they got burned and they are in the same room as the woodstove most of the winter.

Don't worry about your kids, just be careful when families visit when they have kids that aren't used to woodstoves.

My kids love warming up by the fire on a cold morning. Something you maybe can't quite picture coming from FL. :)
 
Kids are always curious but if you tell them hot and they feel the radiant heat, they will stay away. you can also get a baby gate to create 3ft buffer zone.
Just think, before natural gas and oil, people with families use to have fires in there house all the time, this is nothing new for humanity, hell the Indians had open burns in there teepees.
 
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