Catalytic burn times

[John Lehet]

Ideal Steel is a great stove (a good friend has one) but they are not currently shipping — waiting on EPA re-approval.

 

[begreen]

Does yours have a blower with it? I have also been pretty interested in the ideal steel which to my understanding is a more radiant stove but I have been a little hesitant because of the lack of the blower.

That is a big stove and overkill for this application. It would be loafing a lot. I don't think of the Fireview as a strongly radiant stove. It's double-walled construction makes it much more softly radiant as compared to many cast iron stoves.

Sorry, I mixed up this Quad thread with the Rais thread. The Ideal Steel is a worthy look. A small fan behind the stove can move a fair amount of heat. If one can be set up to blow across the stove top, a lot of heat will be moved by convection.

Note that we have an open floorplan first floor, with a second floor where the bedrooms are. A convective stove works really well for us. Our previous stove was a beautiful, highly radiant, Jotul F400. Besides being undersized for the house, room temp swings were a regular occurrence between loadings. This has not been the case with the Alderlea. The difference was apparent on day one and has been since.

 

[Todd]

Does yours have a blower with it? I have also been pretty interested in the ideal steel which to my understanding is a more radiant stove but I have been a little hesitant because of the lack of the blower.

No blower, I have the Woodstock Fireview in a corner install. I don’t really think you need a blower with a radiant stove especially if it’s centrally located.

 

[Dieselhead]

In the cold we've went through the past few weeks, no stove is "keeping up" unless it was much larger than needed in past temps. The Quad 3100 was/is a fine heater, sounds like it is being overtasked. I'm with BG, a nice 3.0 CuFt stove sounds like the answer. Good luck, lots of great choices out there. The upper 30's here in CT has felt great the past couple of days, 40's tomorrow!

I’ve had no problem keeping up, and my stove can get turned down enough when it’s in the 40’ and 50s to where the house is comfortable. That’s the beauty of a cat stove.

 

[Moose032]

I appreciate all the good feedback and suggestions on this. I’m thinking that at this point I won’t be doing the new install until sometime later in the spring or summer so I’ll have some more time to think about.

 

[Southwestpaburner]

I solved my coaling problem this year when the temperature was below 0 ,left half of the box filled with hard wood, when burned down and in the coaling stage I filled the right side with pine ,I did this during our very cold every time and had way less coals and more heat ,no more waiting on coals to burn down,just my own observation and a friend started doing it also and was pleasantly surprised,now I'm heat from the basement and have a pretty high BTU need ,but managed to keep the upstairs 76 with the furnace kicking on way less than previous years