Hey guys,
New here.
My Wife and I have just under a 1,500SQ/FT home. Its brick, single story and was build in the early 1980s. There is currently a Black Bart Model 3200 Wood Insert in the fireplace. It however is just pushed in the hole and does not have a SS liner. We have burned it some this winter since we had a cold week last week. I do not want to burn this stove anymore until I put a liner in it. I started pricing the liner and had all that figured out when I thought about the idea of buying a new stove.
I came across the CW2500. I can get it shipped to my house for $854.46. I have spent a couple days researching this stove and was about to take the plunge on it but I guess I got the last minute jitters. Will this stove be enough to heat our home with the right seasoned wood and a good operator(me)? We have a heat pump but want to use this as our primary heating and use the heat pump as secondary. I have access to plenty of wood. I guess the firebox size of the CW2500 worries me. I am used to loading up the Black Bart with 5 to 6 decent splits about 9pm before bed and getting up at 5:30am and still having a good bed of coals. So I am sure I will have to tend to the smaller firebox size more often which I can adjust to, I will also have to figure out how the EPA stoves burn because I have no experience with them. I just don't want my Wife and I to spend our hard earned money on this stove only to be disappointed and wishing we would have just left the Black Bart in and run a liner.
So the options are to stick with the 33 year old black bart and install a liner. Or go with the Century, and of course with a liner. I love the viewing glass to, that suckers me in. The Black Bart just has solid doors.
Any help and opinions would be great. Also I live in Harrisburg, North Carolina so the winters are not that long and sometimes not that cold, other times we get a good cold winter.
New here.
My Wife and I have just under a 1,500SQ/FT home. Its brick, single story and was build in the early 1980s. There is currently a Black Bart Model 3200 Wood Insert in the fireplace. It however is just pushed in the hole and does not have a SS liner. We have burned it some this winter since we had a cold week last week. I do not want to burn this stove anymore until I put a liner in it. I started pricing the liner and had all that figured out when I thought about the idea of buying a new stove.
I came across the CW2500. I can get it shipped to my house for $854.46. I have spent a couple days researching this stove and was about to take the plunge on it but I guess I got the last minute jitters. Will this stove be enough to heat our home with the right seasoned wood and a good operator(me)? We have a heat pump but want to use this as our primary heating and use the heat pump as secondary. I have access to plenty of wood. I guess the firebox size of the CW2500 worries me. I am used to loading up the Black Bart with 5 to 6 decent splits about 9pm before bed and getting up at 5:30am and still having a good bed of coals. So I am sure I will have to tend to the smaller firebox size more often which I can adjust to, I will also have to figure out how the EPA stoves burn because I have no experience with them. I just don't want my Wife and I to spend our hard earned money on this stove only to be disappointed and wishing we would have just left the Black Bart in and run a liner.
So the options are to stick with the 33 year old black bart and install a liner. Or go with the Century, and of course with a liner. I love the viewing glass to, that suckers me in. The Black Bart just has solid doors.
Any help and opinions would be great. Also I live in Harrisburg, North Carolina so the winters are not that long and sometimes not that cold, other times we get a good cold winter.
