Advice please: Jotul or Alderlea

[LakeLouiseLocal]

Thats a great looking spot for the stove and looks like it will heat you upstairs perfectly.
Stove looks fine.
Lake Louise is a beautiful place, you must be very happy there. I was there as a tourist many years ago.
Is your home well insulated? (I ask this because we are looking at an Oslo for a slightly smaller area, but it is for a cold house (2' stone walls, in a very windy area))

This is a timberframe unit in the middle of a townhouse row. I'm not really knowledgeable, but I'd guess moderately good insulation (not very good insulation) - the building date is 1994ish. The stove kicks out heat, but is a little slow to get there. Hope that helps.

 

[LakeLouiseLocal]

is that a store bought hearth pad? i like that one

It's not store bought. It is slate tile set in mortar on a concrete board base and grouted. Then we used slate sealant over the whole thing. The tile is "desert gold" honed slate: (broken link removed)

 

[Ashful]

This is a timberframe unit in the middle of a townhouse row. I'm not really knowledgeable, but I'd guess moderately good insulation (not very good insulation) - the building date is 1994ish. The stove kicks out heat, but is a little slow to get there. Hope that helps.

Are you sure it's a timberframe? There are still a few timberframe builders out there, but they're all specialty builders, and way expensive for something like a townhouse row. Timberframe construction went out of the mainstream in the 1890's, when balloon framing took over. Most modern stick frame buildings are platform framed.

Relevant to the question, timberframe structures are uniquely difficult to insulate. I'm in the process of doing so with one timberframe building right now.

 

[begreen]

This is a timberframe unit in the middle of a townhouse row. I'm not really knowledgeable, but I'd guess moderately good insulation (not very good insulation) - the building date is 1994ish. The stove kicks out heat, but is a little slow to get there. Hope that helps.

Did you mean a Timberline or a TimberRidge stove?