Ashley is sold be us stove company who imports cheap generally Chinese made stoves of varying quality. They can wear out due to poor engineering build quality or material quality.
Where did you get the Drolet Escape from? It would most likely work for me. Hate the short burn times on these smaller stoves, but I think that I am going to be stuck with that reality in my 500 sf office space. I'll just have to start it up every morning when I get into the office. Not the end of the world. Filling it up every couple of hours would be a nice break from work anyway. Thing is, there are no Drolet dealers anywhere around me. Can this be ordered online?
You could always go with a smaller cat stove that would give you longer burn times
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Yep. I was a road cyclist a few years ago before my career took off, and took over. I was a member of the Green Line Velo team out of Boston. Now I have more money but more fat! I used to compete as a cat 3 but stopped about 5 years ago. I loved the pain, agony, and suffering of the sport. Solo rides, group training rides, competitions, recreational/charity rides - I loved it all. Man, I really miss it. You ever watch cycling documentaries? All the ones produced by Jorgen Leth are great.
I was racing in the 80's during the Lemond era, then went to law school and got fat and slow. Raced against George Hincapie as a junior. He was fast even back then. Started my own practice in 2002, met my wife in 2003, and got back into riding in 2005 and raced again from 2007-2009. Two kids, being involved in a huge wreck in July 2009, and contracting Lyme disease in late August 2009 made me hang it up racing wise. Still try to get out and ride some here and there to keep in shape because this sitting in a chair all day is...................... Wish you were closer to the DC area so we could do some riding.
That is super cool! I have a Fuji steel frame road bike from 1984 with downtube shifters. It is very fun to ride but my bikes are unfortunately rotting in the basement now. I’m not complaining. I started to source, cut, and split my own wood a couple years ago so that is primarily what I do to keep in shape now. All splitting done with a maul and axe. My kid helps sometimes, and sometimes even brings a friend over to show them his prowess. All the cutting, splitting, and moving the wood around keeps me in ok shape. I burn at least 3 cord a season (closer to 4 or 5 this season) and it will be more once the second stove is in. I don’t know what it’s like in DC but here, none of the wood I have ever bought has been truly seasoned (even though everyone claims that theirs is seasoned, it never is). And I’ve tried many places. A cord around here is now a minimum of $350 delivered so I save a lot doing it myself. In terms of splitting, it never gets any easier, you just split faster LOL.
Not in a regulated, pure cat stove. However, that is when the thermostat is set to low which is what it would be a lot of the time for a 500 sq ft area. When pushed for heat, the burntime will drop a lot to more like 6-8 hrs.
The stove is absolutely capable of 20 hrs. The question is whether that will make enough BTUs to heat the house
There are two threads entwined here. fabsroman is looking to heat a 500sq ft office space.
500 sf office space is in a detached garage and there is a 900 sf upstairs level to the detached garage. Stove would be in the rear of the office space and the stairwell is in the front of the office space. I can see light coming through the rear door to the office, but the front door is pretty solid as far as keeping the cold air out. Too much heat is the issue that the estimator saw. He recommended a Regency F1500 and I was debating a Regency F1150 which appears to be the same stove as the F1500 but without the cat. Also been thinking about a Drolet Escape 1200 or Drolet Deco Nano. Just hate the 5 hour burn time on those stoves, but the price is really attractive.
