Advice on stove selection

[noonsun]

Hello - looking for advice please.

We are building a new pretty high efficiency home in Vermont. Home will be 2500 sqft, heated with heat pumps. We have always had wood stoves and relied on them heavily for heat all winter. The builder is suggesting a Morso 7110b and says we will just want it for ambiance. I am leaning toward a Blaze King Ashford 20.2 which will allow for overnight coals and longer burn times. Curious on others’ thoughts. Thanks.

 

[begreen]

The 7110b is a tiny stove. I think the Blaze King will be more practical in VT if the room where the stove goes is large and central. How open is the stove room to the rest of the floor? How often does the power go out?

 

[DuaeGuttae]

We have a Blaze King Sirocco 30.2 in the downstairs of our new construction, well insulated and air-sealed home in Virginia. The home is about 2,700 square feet split over two floors with the larger downstairs having a more open floor plan. It serves us well burning on low most of the time.

We haven't been using it too much this spring since the weather has been swinging pretty wildly. We had three days of temperatures of ninety-nine and one hundred earlier this week, but it was cold enough on Saturday morning that my husband broke down and built a small fire. We just burned it on high and let it burn out.

We like the turn-down capability of the Blaze King and appreciate the larger firebox that allows us to use the irregular wood pieces that we get from cleaning up the property.

I'm not sure how much experience your builder has with woodstoves, but if your goal is true heating with coals left over in the morning for restarts, a Blaze King should serve you well. You just want to make sure that your install will support the chimney requirements as it's important to have good draft for these very efficient stoves.