Progress question

[NHJotul]

I found out the progress does have a small firebox. It’s rated for up to 2,200 sq feet. So far been using it this shoulder season and it’s been great. Just wondering how often will it need to be loaded come winter?? It’s my only source of heat, so I’d rather not have to load it nonstop.

Curious what kind of burn times I can look forward too, and will it last roughly 10 hours a day on a full load?? As it is, I feel I may need to spit my wood some more, I always used very large ones in the jotul to prevent the catalyst from overheating. 3-4 large spilt being dropped in will fill that much larger firebox.

 

[Todd]

It depends on a lot of different factors like your layout, insulation, firewood, ect.

How many times did you fill the Jotul? Sounds like you had the F12 top loader? I don’t think that stove had a very good rep. Your PH should be much more efficient.

It may take a bit of trial and error to figure out your new stove but from what I’ve heard you should have no problem going 10+ hours. I have the Fireview and most of the time I’m on a 12 hour burn schedule heating about 1000 sq ft. When it’s colder I may go to an 8 hour schedule. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a similar schedule with your PH.

Have a good assortment of different sized splits so you can figure out what works best for you. Typically I like to load a larger split or round in the bottom back and fill in from there.

 

[DBoon]

My experience is that fewer, larger pieces in a catalytic stove is best for longer and slower burn (though still hot enough burn). On the coldest days I use the largest pieces and fill in the gaps with a few very small pieces just to get the larger pieces going. Then, I shut it down and let the smoke get burned by the catalytic combustor.

 

[NHJotul]

It depends on a lot of different factors like your layout, insulation, firewood, ect.

How many times did you fill the Jotul? Sounds like you had the F12 top loader? I don’t think that stove had a very good rep. Your PH should be much more efficient.

It may take a bit of trial and error to figure out your new stove but from what I’ve heard you should have no problem going 10+ hours. I have the Fireview and most of the time I’m on a 12 hour burn schedule heating about 1000 sq ft. When it’s colder I may go to an 8 hour schedule. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a similar schedule with your PH.

Have a good assortment of different sized splits so you can figure out what works best for you. Typically I like to load a larger split or round in the bottom back and fill in from there.

Ohh my setup.


Log home chinked on the inside and outside. Very tight home due to that.

It’s 1,900 sq feet, with a centrally located stove, not open concept. But the stairs are close to the stove so it heats upstairs very well.

Used to keep the living room roasting at 85ish and the upstairs around 75 and I ran that Jotul hot.
My firewood. I cut the trees down a couple years ago, I stacked the full logs with my excavator, then the summer before this current one, I split the wood and stacked it, plus threw a tarp over jt.

It’s mostly ash, with black locus, red, sugar and silver maple, some birch and decent amount of black cherry with a little red oak thrown in the mix that’s easily 3 + years old.

It’s dry dry!! I planned on burning it in the worst design catalyst stove ever made, the jotul F12. I did like the top load feature!! Allowed me to stuff that thing so full I almost couldn’t close the top door a few times.

I got 8-10 and sometimes 12 hour burns. The air control didn’t work so well, it was either open or back puffing / glowing red due to the catalyst. But if brought down slow enough, i could get it to work.

PITA!!

With a burnt out catalyst not working, it struggled to heat the house, but kept the home warm enough. It was livable. Maybe 8 hours at best and a lot of smoke and creosote build up. Took forever scrubbing that chimney, it ran the flew so cold I hardly had a draft. I thought my chimney was poorly designed. No, it was the stove, this progress has no problem getting going without the use of an open ash drawer and tons of newspaper.

 

[NHJotul]

My experience is that fewer, larger pieces in a catalytic stove is best for longer and slower burn (though still hot enough burn). On the coldest days I use the largest pieces and fill in the gaps with a few very small pieces just to get the larger pieces going. Then, I shut it down and let the smoke get burned by the catalytic combustor.

How long does it burn for?