Hi Folks,
My first post... I'm an energy advisor and work for a small, ethical company to provide residential and corporate energy solutions. Needless to say, since I've been lurking on this site my knowledge on wood burning has increased vastly. I want to thank everyone for their genuine, usually objective, opinions and suggestions.
Pre-amble:
My wife and I bought our first home last year and we spent the $$ to move our little Century Heating FW 270029 stove with it's wee firebox (real small -- not sure, but around 1.1 and change c.f.) into the middle of the house (open concept, pretty much). In our 800 sq ft (per storey) 1.5 storey eave insulated home (9 years old) with R20 walls, R32 ceiling and uninsulated basement (with a large percentage of above grade exposed walls) we've been able to keep our home warm with 24/7 burning over the past two burning seasons. In most cases the temperature at the furthest rooms swings wildly from 56-68 degrees (74 degrees in the stove room) as our little firebox goes through it's routine of wild swings of combustion. Once we insulate the basement and ceiling more we will be much further off (I modelled our house in Hot2000 and discovered 35% of our heat loss was occuring through our uninsulated basement walls). So needless to say -- we have some work to do.
Now on to my question!
I want a new stove badly. Actually, I want a bigger firebox. Our property has 20 acres of softwood (white birch, poplar and a plethora (#@@! load) of spruce. We want a stove that can work with our softwood and I'm torn between the Blaze King princess, Enviro Kodiak, Oslo, and some Pacific Energy units. Buying wood on PEI is not functional as most (not all) wood providers supply green wood. So I was wondering if anyone has used softwood (with a bit of hardwood) in their Envirofire Kodiak? I've seen some posts suggesting decent burn times with the Kodiak. What do you consider softwood and does the progressive burn feature actually sustain softwood a bit longer?
Many thanks,
My first post... I'm an energy advisor and work for a small, ethical company to provide residential and corporate energy solutions. Needless to say, since I've been lurking on this site my knowledge on wood burning has increased vastly. I want to thank everyone for their genuine, usually objective, opinions and suggestions.
Pre-amble:
My wife and I bought our first home last year and we spent the $$ to move our little Century Heating FW 270029 stove with it's wee firebox (real small -- not sure, but around 1.1 and change c.f.) into the middle of the house (open concept, pretty much). In our 800 sq ft (per storey) 1.5 storey eave insulated home (9 years old) with R20 walls, R32 ceiling and uninsulated basement (with a large percentage of above grade exposed walls) we've been able to keep our home warm with 24/7 burning over the past two burning seasons. In most cases the temperature at the furthest rooms swings wildly from 56-68 degrees (74 degrees in the stove room) as our little firebox goes through it's routine of wild swings of combustion. Once we insulate the basement and ceiling more we will be much further off (I modelled our house in Hot2000 and discovered 35% of our heat loss was occuring through our uninsulated basement walls). So needless to say -- we have some work to do.
Now on to my question!
I want a new stove badly. Actually, I want a bigger firebox. Our property has 20 acres of softwood (white birch, poplar and a plethora (#@@! load) of spruce. We want a stove that can work with our softwood and I'm torn between the Blaze King princess, Enviro Kodiak, Oslo, and some Pacific Energy units. Buying wood on PEI is not functional as most (not all) wood providers supply green wood. So I was wondering if anyone has used softwood (with a bit of hardwood) in their Envirofire Kodiak? I've seen some posts suggesting decent burn times with the Kodiak. What do you consider softwood and does the progressive burn feature actually sustain softwood a bit longer?
Many thanks,
