We want to buy a used stove SOON. This week preferably. I dearly would like your experienced advice concerning the choices available to us now. We have no wood stove experience. We will have alternative heat for blackouts, and we have woods behind our house for quite a ways, so in desperate times there is wood around (plenty of old fallen wood too).
WHY: I want to get the stove and the help we need to put it in place in a hurry because I am not trusting the covid shutdowns I see likely to happen in September, which I believe will be make isolation twice as strict, at least, as the last. We have a mason that can do the tile work for us next week (we probably could learn as we are both big DIYers, but my husband and I are both hard at work on other necessary projects). So, that is why the big hurry.
The big rush: We have a stove coming Wednesday, because the FB Mkplace seller is willing to bring it with a friend an hour here to our driveway. I was so excited. I wanted a used Jotel, but I read these reviews: https://www.wiseheat.com/reviews/17363/Jotul-F-400-Castine. I need to let him know NO LATER than the first thing Wed. morning if I am going to cancel the sale. He is coming in the afternoon and has already marked it sold for me on his listing. So I have basically one day to make a decision to back out of now, and I am overwhelmed, as all this stove stuff is new to me. I hope someone who is knowledgeable and not stressed out can help me decide.
WHAT we have so far: We will put in the Rockford chimney liners ourselves. We got a 6" for the stove and a 4" for the water heater and a specially made chimney cap is on the way for that. We already have thimble in place. The mason will work with ,my husband to tile and build the 1"-space wall and the right floor.
House Size: We estimate our house is 1400 sq. ft but that might be an overestimation. To be more precise, the two floors of our center chimney 1909 colonial house are 1200 sq.ft., and in addition to that, we use the attic space. The stairs now continue to the converted attic space where you can stand in the middle and also stand at the 3 dormer windows (two front, one back) as well as the dormer shower room (back). The main floor is also flanked with two small rooms (converted from porches).
Insulation: The house is variously insulated. Some poorly, like the stairwell wall from 1st to 2nd floor, some well, like the converted-porch entry room done with spray foam on top, bottom, sides (except that room has a lot of windows), others in fiberglass (when wallboard replaced the plaster lathe in those rooms).
STOVES BEING CONSIDERED:
The one being delivered tomorrow (unless someone tells me I shouldn't get this). The seller says, "Wife wants to go with gas we used it 1 season I got the stove from an estate where it had been on a pallet for 10+ years unused". It is $650, no pipe :
Here are some other choices:
This one has no info just "used-fair" and they will get back to me on make and model:
$800, Vermont Castings Intrepid II, 1990 [This seems small, too small for our house or just right? And is a stove like this harder to fit standard wood in?]
Here is another intrepid II, for $1100. But is that a door on the right side? We need it on the left, if there is one:
Is this one too small? "Vermont Castings Resolute wood stove w/chimney pipe $1,500" Are stovepipes really about $100? We don't have one of those either! Here is the details on it, then the pic: Nice, clean Vermont Castings Resolute wood stove. This stove heated our 1000 sq. ft. home for many years. It heats great and you can even cook/warm food on the top griddle. We had many cozy nights laying in front of this stove's warm glow. Stove is recently re-blacked and was in service until this Spring. We have expanded our home and bought a bigger stove. The included chimney would be suitable for a 1-story home, or could be extended for a 2-story home. Please see itemized parts below. The stovepipe parts alone would be over $1000 new. This listing includes: -Stove -Front screen -5 pcs. of 24" Amerivent triple wall galvanized chimney pipe -Matching Amerivent through-wall kit (Includes Tee, wall thimble, and outside support bracket) -OEM gasket kit for future servicing :
WHY: I want to get the stove and the help we need to put it in place in a hurry because I am not trusting the covid shutdowns I see likely to happen in September, which I believe will be make isolation twice as strict, at least, as the last. We have a mason that can do the tile work for us next week (we probably could learn as we are both big DIYers, but my husband and I are both hard at work on other necessary projects). So, that is why the big hurry.
The big rush: We have a stove coming Wednesday, because the FB Mkplace seller is willing to bring it with a friend an hour here to our driveway. I was so excited. I wanted a used Jotel, but I read these reviews: https://www.wiseheat.com/reviews/17363/Jotul-F-400-Castine. I need to let him know NO LATER than the first thing Wed. morning if I am going to cancel the sale. He is coming in the afternoon and has already marked it sold for me on his listing. So I have basically one day to make a decision to back out of now, and I am overwhelmed, as all this stove stuff is new to me. I hope someone who is knowledgeable and not stressed out can help me decide.
WHAT we have so far: We will put in the Rockford chimney liners ourselves. We got a 6" for the stove and a 4" for the water heater and a specially made chimney cap is on the way for that. We already have thimble in place. The mason will work with ,my husband to tile and build the 1"-space wall and the right floor.
House Size: We estimate our house is 1400 sq. ft but that might be an overestimation. To be more precise, the two floors of our center chimney 1909 colonial house are 1200 sq.ft., and in addition to that, we use the attic space. The stairs now continue to the converted attic space where you can stand in the middle and also stand at the 3 dormer windows (two front, one back) as well as the dormer shower room (back). The main floor is also flanked with two small rooms (converted from porches).
Insulation: The house is variously insulated. Some poorly, like the stairwell wall from 1st to 2nd floor, some well, like the converted-porch entry room done with spray foam on top, bottom, sides (except that room has a lot of windows), others in fiberglass (when wallboard replaced the plaster lathe in those rooms).
STOVES BEING CONSIDERED:
The one being delivered tomorrow (unless someone tells me I shouldn't get this). The seller says, "Wife wants to go with gas we used it 1 season I got the stove from an estate where it had been on a pallet for 10+ years unused". It is $650, no pipe :
Here are some other choices:
This one has no info just "used-fair" and they will get back to me on make and model:
$800, Vermont Castings Intrepid II, 1990 [This seems small, too small for our house or just right? And is a stove like this harder to fit standard wood in?]
Here is another intrepid II, for $1100. But is that a door on the right side? We need it on the left, if there is one:
Is this one too small? "Vermont Castings Resolute wood stove w/chimney pipe $1,500" Are stovepipes really about $100? We don't have one of those either! Here is the details on it, then the pic: Nice, clean Vermont Castings Resolute wood stove. This stove heated our 1000 sq. ft. home for many years. It heats great and you can even cook/warm food on the top griddle. We had many cozy nights laying in front of this stove's warm glow. Stove is recently re-blacked and was in service until this Spring. We have expanded our home and bought a bigger stove. The included chimney would be suitable for a 1-story home, or could be extended for a 2-story home. Please see itemized parts below. The stovepipe parts alone would be over $1000 new. This listing includes: -Stove -Front screen -5 pcs. of 24" Amerivent triple wall galvanized chimney pipe -Matching Amerivent through-wall kit (Includes Tee, wall thimble, and outside support bracket) -OEM gasket kit for future servicing :
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