We bought a fixer upper home in Maine last year and it came with a huge older wood stove, the Waterford 103, which has been described both by our home inspector and an energy efficiency consultant as a "beast". The home has another, old, Franklin stove as well as a baseboard oil fired heating system, so our primary interest is fire viewing and secondary or backup heating system. Unfortunately, this stove has no glass doors, although a nice door grate. I understand that glass doors were once available, but the closest US distributor I can find is in Ohio, and they did not even bother to answer any questions I sent to them about replacement parts. The manufacture doesn't have any information at all about this model on their website.
The stove backs up to a substantial brick chimney, but I think that even the side clearances are not in spec or really safe. There are two built in wood bookcases on either side of the chimney about 12 inches from the stove corners.
So, we are thinking about replacement. I'm interested in the Osburn 2200, due to the great viewing area, but one of the things about the existing stove is that it is very narrow in depth and the wife doesn't want a stove that comes out any further into the living space. I measure the outside stove depth to be about 19 inches, although the stove is also very wide, 32 inches or so. Does anyone have recommendations on good stoves with similar dimensions? The current stove is about 8 inches from the back wall / chimney and I understand that a lot of the newer stoves can get much closer with the proper double walled pipe, but still, overall dimensions shouldn't be more than 27-30 inches deep, including back clearance, with a nice wide viewing area. Does such a thing exist? Most of the mid sized or larger stoves I've looked at so far seem to be much more square in dimension than this old Waterford.
The stove backs up to a substantial brick chimney, but I think that even the side clearances are not in spec or really safe. There are two built in wood bookcases on either side of the chimney about 12 inches from the stove corners.
So, we are thinking about replacement. I'm interested in the Osburn 2200, due to the great viewing area, but one of the things about the existing stove is that it is very narrow in depth and the wife doesn't want a stove that comes out any further into the living space. I measure the outside stove depth to be about 19 inches, although the stove is also very wide, 32 inches or so. Does anyone have recommendations on good stoves with similar dimensions? The current stove is about 8 inches from the back wall / chimney and I understand that a lot of the newer stoves can get much closer with the proper double walled pipe, but still, overall dimensions shouldn't be more than 27-30 inches deep, including back clearance, with a nice wide viewing area. Does such a thing exist? Most of the mid sized or larger stoves I've looked at so far seem to be much more square in dimension than this old Waterford.
