New Stove

[Section m]

i just bought a new stove today. Menards had the Drolet Myriad on sale for 709 plus their 11% rebate for a price of 631. I'm hoping to install it for next years season. This is my first stove ever. I'll probably just burn evenings and weekends and then when I feel comfortable I'll do over nights.

 

[GENECOP]

Congrats, and welcome to the forum, post up some photos of the install....

 

[begreen]

Good deal. This is a very radiant stove. Watch the side clearances when installing. It's going to want a decent chimney of 15 ft or higher and dry wood to perform well.

 

[osagebow]

Congrats, hang out here and learn all you can!

 

[aansorge]

That is a great price for a 3.1 cu.ft. Stove. Do you have any dry wood?

 

[BrotherBart]

Congrats.

Have I ever mentioned that I love big honkin steel stoves?

 

[Section m]

My flue should be a little over twenty feet tall. I have some wood that was split last year but I am going to go to one of depts at work next weekend that has a bunch of already cut and de-limbed trees and get some cut and split. It will be mostly pine because that's what we have around here. If it's not dry enough by next winter I will look at craigslist or burn some of those bricks from TSC.

 

[Grisu]

Softwood should dry over one good summer. However, make sure to top-cover it as I have learned the hard way that it likes to soak in water like a sponge.

 

[Poindexter]

Yup, take all the pine you can get free and have room for, get it split, stacked off the ground and covered by April 15th or so and you'll have that many BTUs ready by October 2015.

After April 15th 2015 go looking for hardwoods, get those split, stacked off the ground and covered as soon as you can as your start for wood to burn October 2016.