Thanks to this forum i was able to quickly install our first modern (i think i'm using the term loosely) wood stove yesterday. This is only our second year in a cold climate and last year we had a double door stove oldschool stove that wasn't sealed or anything. it didn't put out much heat so i installed a heat exchanger and that made it work but still it'd only hold a fire for a few hours which meant interrupted sleep all night or a 50° house in the morning.
On friday i found a used Kent Sherwood from '84. It's a small sealed glass front stove with a weird circular airflow inside. It was in good shape and $150 so i ran down to pick it up and installed it yesterday.
WOW, Huge massive difference not only in the length of time the stove holds a fire but mostly in the amount of heat coming off the stove vs. up the flue. The heat exchanger did almost nothing last night. My old stove would read 160° and the exchanger would start cycling and stay on continuously above 200°. This new stove will read 300-400° and the heat exchanger cycles occasionally. I'm thinking about just removing it completely but it does provide a convenient fan to move air around so I kinda want to keep it.
I just wanted to post a thanks for the quick install help and a review of this little Kent Sherwood stove. So far (first 24hrs) it's head and tails above my old stove and i'm thinking i'm gonna have a whole lotta wood left over this year...
On friday i found a used Kent Sherwood from '84. It's a small sealed glass front stove with a weird circular airflow inside. It was in good shape and $150 so i ran down to pick it up and installed it yesterday.
WOW, Huge massive difference not only in the length of time the stove holds a fire but mostly in the amount of heat coming off the stove vs. up the flue. The heat exchanger did almost nothing last night. My old stove would read 160° and the exchanger would start cycling and stay on continuously above 200°. This new stove will read 300-400° and the heat exchanger cycles occasionally. I'm thinking about just removing it completely but it does provide a convenient fan to move air around so I kinda want to keep it.
I just wanted to post a thanks for the quick install help and a review of this little Kent Sherwood stove. So far (first 24hrs) it's head and tails above my old stove and i'm thinking i'm gonna have a whole lotta wood left over this year...
