Hi everyone long time lurker first time poster. I have a 24 x 32 three-story home super well insulated in New Hampshire that I oversaw construction of. I am an electrician by trade so I did the wiring and a lot of the other work but a contractor friend erected the house. The home is heated by forced hot water oil boiler. I supplement with Wood. On my first floor I have a little jotul f100 in the living room for ambience but it will blast you out of the living space obviously not an all night stove but works perfect for the application. On the walkout basement level I have a beautiful brown enamel Vermont Castings Vigilant Looks to have one piece fire back that says 1977 I purchased the south used one I moved in the house 5 years ago. It’s a beautiful stove but I end up burning it too cool and have been producing more creosote than I would like I have a metal roof. Both woodstoves are tied to an 8 x 12 tile block chimney that runs from the basement close to 40 feet straight up. The oil furnace is on a separate 8 x 8 tile with separate block stacked side-by-side so two separate flues. I know now having two wood-burning appliances on the same flue is a no no but this was done before I found this page by an old time Mason that said he always did it that way. Eventually I would like to put a stainless liner in for the basement woodstove but I know I would lose the first floor woodstove if I did that. As I don’t believe I can get 26 inch liners down the chimney and out the thimbles. For now what I would like to do is replace the Vermont castings in the basement with a jotel or some other cleaner burning stove.
I Love my little jotel F 100 on the first floor.
I have two options locally A virtually brand new 2009 jotul f400 that was used only a couple times the new home owner doesn’t want to burn wood in the dining room my price on that stove is $1200 or There is a stove shop -gentleman who fixes stoves that bought at least one F500 Oslo v2 Still in the crate matte black plain glass door not ornamental which is perfect I feel but the asking price on that stove is $3400. My other option is to get a steel hybrid from Woodstock soapstone this spring as I live near them. So my question is do I purchase the f400 Because it’s a beautiful stove in mint condition. Or should I chalk up the additional $2200 for the Oslo. I understand the F 400 is not exactly an all night woodstove but it’s going to be leaps and bounds better than what I’m running now. And yes I understand how critical seasoned super super dry hardwood is I have been helping with wood since I was a kid.
I Love my little jotel F 100 on the first floor.
I have two options locally A virtually brand new 2009 jotul f400 that was used only a couple times the new home owner doesn’t want to burn wood in the dining room my price on that stove is $1200 or There is a stove shop -gentleman who fixes stoves that bought at least one F500 Oslo v2 Still in the crate matte black plain glass door not ornamental which is perfect I feel but the asking price on that stove is $3400. My other option is to get a steel hybrid from Woodstock soapstone this spring as I live near them. So my question is do I purchase the f400 Because it’s a beautiful stove in mint condition. Or should I chalk up the additional $2200 for the Oslo. I understand the F 400 is not exactly an all night woodstove but it’s going to be leaps and bounds better than what I’m running now. And yes I understand how critical seasoned super super dry hardwood is I have been helping with wood since I was a kid.
