Hey guys,
I've spent the last week or so searching the multitude of posts on here about the BK line of stoves and still haven't found the specific info I am looking for. Most of the BK threads outside the yearly performance threads seem to get derailed fairly easily and the performance threads aren't specific enough in what I am looking for.
We're looking at purchasing a Sirocco 30 in the summer, but before I drop 3k on a new stove from a dealer about an hour away, I need some definitive information on stove temps and some build quality pics:
1) Being that the Sirocco 30 / Chinook 30 and Princess are so close in firebox size, I'd appreciate any stove top temps from either Sirocco or Princess owners (I think King owners would most likely get the same temps but I am not quite sure) at 1, 2 and 3 on the t-stat. With the cast cladding of the Ashford 30, I am not sure if the temp comparison would be the same?
2) Pics of the Sirocco - specifically closeups inside the firebox, of the interior of the door and of the ashpan design, but any Sirocco stove porn is very welcome
3) Has anyone with insider connections heard any reliable rumours about the possibilities of a Sirocco 40? (paging BKVP!
)
The short version of this story is that we have a Napoleon 1450 (2.25 cu. ft firebox) heating our 3 year old 1100 sq. ft. bungalow from a fully finished basement. The stove pumps out tons of heat and keeps the roughly 2200 total sq. ft. of house at about 68 - 70* the majority of the winter months. The reason for wanting to change to the slightly larger Sirocco 30 is for the steady heat output and the ability to dial the heat way back when it is tool cold to go without heat and too warm to bring the 1450 up to temp (as was mentioned in an older thread is the Napoleons like to burn HOT and we're trying not to use our baseboard heater backup). Our work schedules don't allow for the reload time required to keep the house to temp with the 1450 in the real cold snaps, however based on what I have read to date about the Princess and Sirocco 30 fireboxes, a SC30 would fit in perfectly (sized for our house and fit in the space the 1450 is currently in with zero mods to the hearth pad or flue) and not heat us out of the basement when the call for real heat is made.
Thanks for the help and hopefully before next burning season I will have some detailed pics of my new stove to assist others in the same boat as me
I've spent the last week or so searching the multitude of posts on here about the BK line of stoves and still haven't found the specific info I am looking for. Most of the BK threads outside the yearly performance threads seem to get derailed fairly easily and the performance threads aren't specific enough in what I am looking for.
We're looking at purchasing a Sirocco 30 in the summer, but before I drop 3k on a new stove from a dealer about an hour away, I need some definitive information on stove temps and some build quality pics:
1) Being that the Sirocco 30 / Chinook 30 and Princess are so close in firebox size, I'd appreciate any stove top temps from either Sirocco or Princess owners (I think King owners would most likely get the same temps but I am not quite sure) at 1, 2 and 3 on the t-stat. With the cast cladding of the Ashford 30, I am not sure if the temp comparison would be the same?
2) Pics of the Sirocco - specifically closeups inside the firebox, of the interior of the door and of the ashpan design, but any Sirocco stove porn is very welcome
3) Has anyone with insider connections heard any reliable rumours about the possibilities of a Sirocco 40? (paging BKVP!
)The short version of this story is that we have a Napoleon 1450 (2.25 cu. ft firebox) heating our 3 year old 1100 sq. ft. bungalow from a fully finished basement. The stove pumps out tons of heat and keeps the roughly 2200 total sq. ft. of house at about 68 - 70* the majority of the winter months. The reason for wanting to change to the slightly larger Sirocco 30 is for the steady heat output and the ability to dial the heat way back when it is tool cold to go without heat and too warm to bring the 1450 up to temp (as was mentioned in an older thread is the Napoleons like to burn HOT and we're trying not to use our baseboard heater backup). Our work schedules don't allow for the reload time required to keep the house to temp with the 1450 in the real cold snaps, however based on what I have read to date about the Princess and Sirocco 30 fireboxes, a SC30 would fit in perfectly (sized for our house and fit in the space the 1450 is currently in with zero mods to the hearth pad or flue) and not heat us out of the basement when the call for real heat is made.
Thanks for the help and hopefully before next burning season I will have some detailed pics of my new stove to assist others in the same boat as me
