This will be our sole source of heat as I hate running the heat pump. Any more info needed?
Yes...why do you hate to run the heat pump?
Begreen, the all-around most knowledgeable forum member, will always run his if he has the option, since it is a cleaner source of energy.
I think everybody needs high output every once in a while.
If I had 2700 SF plus the double tall ceiling which easily puts you over 3000 equivalent SF then I would get a king in there.
The "every once in a while," in Dallas, is going to be very few and very far between. In that case, I might get a stove sized to handle the average needs, then run the heat pump to make up the difference if it got abnormally cold.
we were in the 20’s for highs for about a week.
I didn't delve into what caused your cold snap. Was it just a fluke "polar vortex," or what exactly was the reason? Did they think it was a climate-related thing, that might be expected to occur more often in the future?
Our house layout makes it so that we cannot heat our entire house completely with our stove even if we roasted ourselves out of the large open area where it’s located. The air just won’t move to certain rooms like our kids’ bedrooms or my husband’s office.
With the high ceiling, have you not using ceiling fans, but letting the heat build downward in the room, then using a small 8" desk fan on the floor in the hallway to force hot air out the top of the doorway and toward the other areas of the home.
With the Buck 91 at my MIL's in a relatively small room, the ceiling fan would roast us out, whereas running the floor fan blowing cool air in the doorway kept temps comfortable at chair/couch level.
$900. That won't buy much in house insulating upgrades.
Money spent on weatherizing where you are will mostly pay off in the summer I'd think, with AC costs. But it will result in a more comfortable home year 'round.
BK has a 10 year warranty on them now, ( prorated?) so that's good.
One-shot deal with the new stove, not with every combustor you buy. After that, you'll have to rely on the combustor warranty.
I never called in the warranty on a combustor, as I figured I had gotten the expected amount of performance from them all.
Well, I can't wait to see my King installed. I'm a pyromaniac and have a magnesium cone sitting in my back yard out of a huge rock crusher from my brother-in-laws rock mine. That thing can make some amazing fires seen by my neighbors who are over a mile away. Now all I lack is making that fire in my living room
I have a cat stove, but if I had it to do again, I'd go with a simple Pacific Energy non-cat, like I got my SIL a couple years back (T5.) No cat to replace, cast iron jacket to level out and extend the heat curve, and a gorgeous stove to look at. Unfortunately, having a masonry fireplace, I had to get a stove that had a rear-vent option which would fit under my low lintel height.