And yes I gets cold where I live. Just had a Harman 52i installed into the fireplace location. So far this insert is great. I'm trying to heat 2800 sq ft, 1 1/2 story home. The insert is doing a good job of heating living room where installed and has a direct air flow up the stairs to heat the three bedrooms. Heat is not moving too well to the dinning and kitchen area, may need to add another small unit next. Thanks to recommendations on this site I hooked up a Skytech 3301p. Gives me more control and more accurate temperature readings. I have the living room temp set at 74 deg, it's reaching the upstairs at 70 deg which is just fine. I'm running feed rate at 3, fan at 12 o'clock in manual igniter. Using less than a bag a day, burning Heat'rs from Costco. Overall I'm happy with the performance.