Blaze King Ashford
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You’ll probably have to utilize ceiling fans/box fans/floor standing fans to get creative to move air around.
Seems like it might be overkill to do the blower then. I get that it will probably disperse heat from the stove in general, but probably not where I want it.
The clearances differ on the Woodstocks because they are more radiant heaters where the Lopi and Blaze King are shielded convective stoves that help reduce clearances. If your heating a big open floor plan with high ceilings I’d look more into a radiant stove but if your floor plan is less open and your trying to push heat to further away rooms look into something more convective.
Be careful when you look into firebox size. There’s a big difference between usable cu ft and what a manufacture claims that could include the whole innards including above the baffles.
2400 sq ft in Northern New England may even be pushing the BK Princess. I might even look into the BK King the Buck 91 or Regency 5000 but they also take an 8” chimney.
Be careful when you look into firebox size. There’s a big difference between usable cu ft and what a manufacture claims that could include the whole innards including above the baffles.
2400 sq ft in Northern New England may even be pushing the BK Princess. I might even look into the BK King the Buck 91 or Regency 5000 but they also take an 8” chimney.
I just reread what you said earlier as your cast stove will run you out of the room in the shoulder seasons. I’d say if you intend to use in the shoulder seasons and not get run out I would go with one of the BK stoves for sure. I mean yeah you could build smaller fires in one of the hybrid stoves but to me that’s more than annoying id rather be able to just load it up and adjust thermostat to heat output where needed. That liberty stove is definitely going to run you out of the room I think. The thing with the Ashford is it is a cast cladded stove which I have so it’s definitely a softer heat than say a princess or sirocco. But issue is when you really need the heat and to get it out. You need the fans on it. How big is the room it’s going in and is it open to the rest of the house or no? Some pictures or a diagram may help us help you make a better decision. But if you’re getting roasted out of that room in the shoulder seasons or regardless might be a good idea to use a box fan to push the colder air towards that room
Can I ask what went into your decision for Ashford over Princess? I like the cast iron styling a little better on the Ashford, but the princess design is very much tried and trueI recognize the Ashford has been around since 2007, but the Princess design is more than 10 years older and is a more traditional stove. . It also seems like the Ashford is going to handle the 16-19 inch logs that I have currently with the larger door. I'm trying to buy the stove that's best for the next ten years, rather than this year. At the same time, all other things about equal, easier loading of my existing wood is a major benefit.
Regarding the square footage.
This is being done as a part of a remodel, the room that the stove is in is shrinking slightly in size. Currently the room is an L shape, about 300 square feet. There's two vents above the stove (may change with remodel) and a spiral staircase leading to a large room above. The room above the stove is 800 square feet with 12 foot vaulted ceilings, and there's an additional 500 square foot room with french doors and 10 foot vaulted ceilings on the far side of the large room from the stove. Additionally, there's a single vent that goes up into an open space at the top of the stairs (~120sqf). Additionally, there's a soffit that we're removing that blocks airflow into the kitchen ~ 400sqf that we're hoping will accomlish two things. 1) allow better airflow into the kitchen to reduce the need to rely exclusively on propane and 2) disperse heat better from the room the stove is in making it slightly less hot in that room (I know it's still going to be hot, and that's part of the point of sitting in that room).
This is to say, my Manchester stove heats about 1600 sqf with about 1100 being truly hot about 45 minutes after the stove is full. I'm hopeful that the remodel will better enable airflow into an additional room and thereby disperse the heat (while adding square footage to the stoves intended footprint).
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