That looks great. I like the clean lines of that stove. How large of an area is it heating? Please keep us posted on how the stove works out for you and what it's like to run during mild weather vs really cold weather.
I recently purchased this stove, which was selected by our client. I am very disappointed with it. The firebox is impressive. However, the rest of the design is seriously deficient in terms of heating efficiency.
The most glaring problem is with the “fresh air kit”. The brochure states, “
The fresh air system is an optional kit intended to bring combustion air into the stove from an exterior source. A careful choice of words, “
into the stove”, while true, nevertheless results in misleading advertising.
This deceptively implies that, with this kit, combustion air is drawn directly from the exterior of the house into the firebox. This
would be the most efficient configuration
if it were true. But, it is not true.
The “fresh air kit” simply routes cold air into the outer enclosure of the stove, allowing the cold exterior air to dump on the floor when the stove is idle, and to just mix with circulated air when it is working. A simple hole in the wall would perform the same ineffective function.
The second problem is with the blower. An effective design would pull air only from outside the stove and then direct it all around the firebox to exit from the front. The blower in this unit does not do that. It is not ducted in any manner. It is simply an open squirrel cage in the back of the stove that creates some turbulence, mixing room air with air from the fresh air kit, and expelling some of the mix out the front of the stove.
For $4,000, I expect better engineering and design. You can easily do much better. This stove was selected by a client. The defects have been explained to the client, but they have chosen to keep it, due to time constraints on completing their home. If I had ordered it for myself, I would return it immediately.
