I have a summers heat stove thats rated up to 1000 square feet. My house is an old drafty 1000 square foot farm house. The stove in the middle of winter can barely cut it, and with its small firebox and door opening I have to add wood every couple hours. With the teeny tiny ashpan, its more of a mere aesthetic, not to mention that you have to take a 3"x3" plug out of the bottom of the firebox and scrape the ashes into the pan, which is maybe a little more deep than a cookie baking sheet. Really, its a joke
Im looking for a stove good looking enough to not be an eye sore in my dining room where I have my through the roof chimney at. With a firebox you can get at least 24" logs into. Mine you can barely get an 18" log into. With a long burn time that can heat my drafty poorly insulated home and be easy to clean the ashes out with a large ash pan. It would be even cooler if I could clean the ashes out without letting the fire die down as well
A guy I work with has a lopi liberty and it sounds like a great stove. How would this do for my application? If I ever finally rewire my house and insulate the attic, will the liberty be too big for it? Is there another stove that would better suit my purpose? I want to be able to see my fire so I can keep an eye when it needs another log or two, so I would like it to have a glass door. I dont really like the very ornate casted stoves either. I would like the option to maybe add a fresh air supply kit to it and also have a spot to add on an electric fan. I would like the fan to have a good way to pick up the heat. The fan on my stove just blows air off the back of the stove and doesnt really pick up heat. I would also like the fan to not be noisy. Even on the low setting, the fan on my stove is quite noisy for how much air it moves.
If it werent for insurance purposes, Id just build my own stove to suit my needs to get exactly what I want but my insurance requires my stove to be UL listed
Im looking for a stove good looking enough to not be an eye sore in my dining room where I have my through the roof chimney at. With a firebox you can get at least 24" logs into. Mine you can barely get an 18" log into. With a long burn time that can heat my drafty poorly insulated home and be easy to clean the ashes out with a large ash pan. It would be even cooler if I could clean the ashes out without letting the fire die down as well
A guy I work with has a lopi liberty and it sounds like a great stove. How would this do for my application? If I ever finally rewire my house and insulate the attic, will the liberty be too big for it? Is there another stove that would better suit my purpose? I want to be able to see my fire so I can keep an eye when it needs another log or two, so I would like it to have a glass door. I dont really like the very ornate casted stoves either. I would like the option to maybe add a fresh air supply kit to it and also have a spot to add on an electric fan. I would like the fan to have a good way to pick up the heat. The fan on my stove just blows air off the back of the stove and doesnt really pick up heat. I would also like the fan to not be noisy. Even on the low setting, the fan on my stove is quite noisy for how much air it moves.
If it werent for insurance purposes, Id just build my own stove to suit my needs to get exactly what I want but my insurance requires my stove to be UL listed