Jotul F-500 or Hearthstone shelburne

[majo]

Good evening,
We finally narrowed down to Jotul F-500 or Hearthstone shelburne and I would like to know which one would best fit for our need. The stove will be in a 900 sq feet basement. Total house 1800 sq feet. The chimney is Outside 16 feet heigh with two 90. Basement is very well insulated. The stove will be in the family room of 600 sq feet. We plan to heat on weekends and evenings. we like both stove. What do you think? will the oslo cook us out of the room? Any idea?

Thank you for your help

Martin

 

[stoveguy13]

from a size stand point i would probably lean you towards the shelburne it is a very nice stove and does a great job heating especially now that it is lined with soapstone think it is a a better value as well doesnt sound like you need the oslo.

 

[begreen]

This doesn't sound like a good start for either stove. 16 ft chimney with two 90 turns in a basement is going to be a big challenge for draft.

 

[stovelark]

As a person who has a similar house setup, I had to put registers in my floor to level out the heat going upstairs (best to check with local building folks before you modify any floor openings in between floors.) My Oslo at the time did a wonderful job heating our house, but was seldom "overpowering" downstairs. I will also tell you, if downstairs was too warm, we could open our garage door and equalize. I now have a pellet stove and woodstove downstairs, the woodstove can overpower us too, I really need another opening going upstairs (at our upstairs hallway) to even things out. I think either stove will do the job, though the Shelburne isn't quite the heater the Oslo is. On super cold days, the Oslo would prob be appreciated, but for most winter days, the Shelburne will do nicely. I'm assuming you know the Shelburne is closer to the F400 Castine for heating capability, prob about in between the F400 and F500 (sq footage wise). I like the Shelburne, a very robust heater, but the Oslo is still prob my favorite full cast woodstove. Either will be great choices.

 

[Nick Mystic]

The size of the Oslo is 25% larger than the Shelburne (2.5 cu. ft. vs. 2.0 cu. ft.) The Oslo accepts logs up to 24" while the Shelburne takes logs up to 20". Are you going to try to move any heat upstairs, as well as the 900 sq. ft. basement? If so, then the Oslo might be a better choice. If not, then either stove should work out okay as far as heat is concerned. You can always burn a smaller fire in a bigger stove to limit the heat output. As for draft I can't comment first hand on what you might face with these two stoves. As for the two 90s our Woodstock Classic in our lower level has two 90s at either end of about three feet of single wall stove pipe before it enters an 8" x 11" clay tile flue liner that is about 25' tall. We get a good draft with that stove and have never had any trouble with smoke coming out of the door when refueling, etc.

 

[majo]

Thank you all for the reply,
We will try to move the heat upstair. As for the chimney
I have 4 feet of double wall straight up, then 90, 2 feet horizontal, 90 and then 16ft up the side of the house.

 

[begreen]

20 ft total? That's better. Is there a stove there now? How does it draft?

Of the two I am leaning toward the Oslo, except that we have had some folks needing to add extra flue to the chimney to get it to work better. If you choose either the Oslo or Shelburne consider using a pair of 45 elbows with a short diagonal connector instead of the 90. If the draft is not strong my preference in this situation would be an easy breathing stove like a catalytic Woodstock or a Pacific Energy Summit or T6.

 

[Bluerubi]

I'm sitting in my 1000sqft, I insulated basement right now at 92f with my oslo. Not quite as powerful as my firelight 12 was, but the oslo cranks out the heat. I'm not even pushing it hard and it raised the whole space by almost 30f in a couple hours. Doors are open to my upstairs, but still getting nicely toasty down here watching hardcore pawn.

 

[majo]

There is a old chimney that needs to be changed, but no stove since we bought the house. The T5 was our third choice we may reconsider it.