Any of your stove choices will be mucho more happy if you line the chimney. Keep researching stoves. Particularly Blaze King and Woodstock offerings are worth looking into according to there current users
Buying new stove / Every dealer tells me their stove is the best on the market. Lol
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Any of your stove choices will be mucho more happy if you line the chimney. Keep researching stoves. Particularly Blaze King and Woodstock offerings are worth looking into according to there current users
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
I love my princess and after using it for 4 seasons its been nothing but great, although if I were stove shopping I'd prob take a very close look at the woodstove progress hybrid (yes I know I talked smack about hybrids) but this one seems awesome to me, shaker grate ash collection, soapstone for smooth heat, plus up to 80,000 btu an hour. Only hold back is no blower system, but I'm sure i'd figure something out with moving air to the stove.
http://www.woodstove.com/?gclid=Cjw...Vwz5haMGiOTa4BftkASh-1q6ldgY-tjRoCKiUQAvD_BwE
http://www.woodstove.com/?gclid=Cjw...Vwz5haMGiOTa4BftkASh-1q6ldgY-tjRoCKiUQAvD_BwE
"Woodstock Progress Hybrid" I do believe
A proper consideration as Kenny suggests! Also have a look at Woodstock's Ideal Steel and Absolute Steel models. Lots of happy users of both if you do some searching. Have fun!
Didnt read the whole thread maybe it was mentioned, but this has good reviews. Sounds like a real heat maker:
https://www.ruralking.com/ht2000-x-large-wood-stove
https://www.ruralking.com/ht2000-x-large-wood-stove
So? Neither have some BKs and Woodstocks. It's how quickly the mfg responds that is important.
brenndatomu
Minister of Fire
Screw the dealers then...go factory direct... Woodstock soapstone cat stove...they (Woodstock) have a 6 month love it or leave it garantee too...
Yes, an Ideal Steel from Woodstock would also work here. Drolet and others are also purchasable factory direct.
https://www.drolet.ca/en/products/stoves/ht2000-with-pedestal/
https://www.drolet.ca/en/products/stoves/ht2000-with-pedestal/
I watch this video on the Drolet ht2000 again and again. You dont have to spend 3x the money.
It seems to me that bedroom 1 is always going to be cold just because its located over an unheated garage. I don't see a new stove fixing that. A small electric heater would warm it easily. As a pretty new Blaze King owner I'm pretty amazed at its ability to hold a constant temp for hours and hours. My cabin will stay around 74 plus or minus a couple degrees for 14 to 18 hours. We add wood about every 12 hours, don't stuff it full. Its almost like heating with a furnace the temp is so stable.
This is what I’ve read about the blaze kings and why I’m leaning in that direction. I’d be thrilled to have to load the stove just 2 times a day. My current stove gets fully packed at least 4 times a day so I’ll definitely use a lot less wood.
mellow
Resident Stove Connoisseur
If you have ductwork downstairs and can deal with the look then put in a wood furnace: https://www.drolet.ca/en/products/furnaces/drolet-tundra-furnace/
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
brenndatomu
Minister of Fire
kennyp2339
Minister of Fire
Lol no, I just keep staggering my loading times. I'll have to readjust come Wednesday morning when I go back to work.You have 28 hr days over there?!
Only 14 hours geez last week wife filled the king up and left the cabin I went up 2 1/2 days 60 hours later was going to clean the ashes out and stove still had a few coals. Probably could have added some kindling and got it going but had been burning non stop for a month and wanted to clean it out. Admittedly the stove wasn’t putting out any heat but was still slightly warm.
No but that was addressed quickly. And only really affected the inserts.
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Another Sussex County, NJ resident here. And a very happy BK Ashford 30 owner. Also very happy with the service and support from my local BK dealer (ABC Chimney in Branchville, NJ). If you haven't called them for a price while you're making decisions, I would reach out. Like you, I had a short list of stoves and they were great at respecting that and not trying upsells/swaps/etc, which i appreciated.
I have a question regarding the 2 pictures below. The recommendations for the vertical rise to the horizontal flue pipe for the BK Ashford 30 are 2ft minimum (3ft recommended) but as you can see from the other picture of my stove that there is only about 16 inches from the top of my current stove to the horizontal pipe. So is the BK Ashford 30 not an option for me anymore? I’d hate to install a stove not to the mfg specs and have a warranty issue because of it.
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lsucet
Minister of Fire
I will say, based on the recommendation you can have issues but it is hard to tell. Most of newer stoves share similarities on flue setup recommendations. I know, it is an expensive trial and error.
Maybe someone has a similar setup as yours and can give you better input.
Dave. I see you have an 8 inch flue. It was recommended to me by several dealers and one called blaze king to confirm, to not reduce the 8 inch down to 6 inch for the Ashford or princess. Reasoning was that since the flue is not that hot when it expands into the 8 inch it would cool further. So I ended up with a King. You might want to check into it with your dealer.
Although the King uses 8" it also needs 3' of vertical pipe before going horizontal. A consideration in Dave K's setup.
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