After considering the advice provided here, and researching the subject to death...I chose the Englands Summers Heat 50-svl17, or the 50-tvl17, not sure which.
The box says "S" and the order says "T" they look the same anyway.
I placed it in my garage workshop (separate from any vehicles and fuel, etc, and with the written blessing of my insurance company.
There are no codes where I am, but everything was installed in a safe, professional manner following the stove manufacturers directions, and the stove pipe install guide.
I chose double wall Selkirk pipe (and system).
I started with 12' of pipe total, from the stovetop to the chimney cap, but ended up adding 2 more feet of exterior pipe, for a total of 14'.
I was concerned about so much pipe projecting from the low (3/12) pitch roof.
It looked pretty bad being new and bright, but some brown paint helped a lot to let it blend in.
I ordered the stove, and while waiting installed the flue and associated system.
The stove took two weeks to arrive, reasonable since I'm in Illinois, and it started in VA.
Picked it up at the truck terminal Monday morning!
Here are some pictures of the stove in case anyone is considering one.
It isn't much to look at, as style goes, but I wasn't after anything fancy for the shop.
Here is what it looks like installed;
I did my three break in fires as per the instructions.
Here is the second one climbing toward 400 degrees.
And another;
Today, I fired it up for real.
It took about ten minutes to get a good blaze going so I could shut down the air.
It has been cruising steadily all day at 80 degrees (in the shop) with outside temps at 40.
I'm burning a mix of Willow and Cherry cut, split and stacked last winter.
I picked up a cheap HF. moisture meter and was pleasantly surprised to find 12% on the Willow, and 15% on the Cherry. Pretty darn dry!
As one might imagine, the Willow is good kindling, but dissapears pretty fast. The Cherry though, will burn for about 2-3 hours.
The splits are pretty small, and the rounds of Cherry are 3-4".
I'm hoping to get closer to 4-6 hours between loads once the weather turns cold, so I can put more than one or two small pieces in at a time.
I'm working on establishing a decent ash bed too.
As expected, when running the stove on low, the glass dirties up, but open the air and let it burn hot, and it clears right up.
I was concerned when looking, and still am, about the small capacity of the stove and being able to keep a fire going while at work.
Much too soon to tell yet.
I was very surprised to see that the firebox is much larger than I had imagined a stove that is only 12.5" deep would be.
I think I can get 5 or 6 splits in it.
I have thus far only one complaint, and that is every time I go in the house, I get cold!
I've never cared for the forced air furnace in the house, and now coming from a very warm shop into a much cooler house is going to be a challenge...
I'm really enjoying it, day #1 is a big success!
More as I learn how to run this thing.
Rob
The box says "S" and the order says "T" they look the same anyway.
I placed it in my garage workshop (separate from any vehicles and fuel, etc, and with the written blessing of my insurance company.
There are no codes where I am, but everything was installed in a safe, professional manner following the stove manufacturers directions, and the stove pipe install guide.
I chose double wall Selkirk pipe (and system).
I started with 12' of pipe total, from the stovetop to the chimney cap, but ended up adding 2 more feet of exterior pipe, for a total of 14'.
I was concerned about so much pipe projecting from the low (3/12) pitch roof.
It looked pretty bad being new and bright, but some brown paint helped a lot to let it blend in.
I ordered the stove, and while waiting installed the flue and associated system.
The stove took two weeks to arrive, reasonable since I'm in Illinois, and it started in VA.
Picked it up at the truck terminal Monday morning!
Here are some pictures of the stove in case anyone is considering one.
It isn't much to look at, as style goes, but I wasn't after anything fancy for the shop.
Here is what it looks like installed;
I did my three break in fires as per the instructions.
Here is the second one climbing toward 400 degrees.
And another;
Today, I fired it up for real.
It took about ten minutes to get a good blaze going so I could shut down the air.
It has been cruising steadily all day at 80 degrees (in the shop) with outside temps at 40.
I'm burning a mix of Willow and Cherry cut, split and stacked last winter.
I picked up a cheap HF. moisture meter and was pleasantly surprised to find 12% on the Willow, and 15% on the Cherry. Pretty darn dry!
As one might imagine, the Willow is good kindling, but dissapears pretty fast. The Cherry though, will burn for about 2-3 hours.
The splits are pretty small, and the rounds of Cherry are 3-4".
I'm hoping to get closer to 4-6 hours between loads once the weather turns cold, so I can put more than one or two small pieces in at a time.
I'm working on establishing a decent ash bed too.
As expected, when running the stove on low, the glass dirties up, but open the air and let it burn hot, and it clears right up.
I was concerned when looking, and still am, about the small capacity of the stove and being able to keep a fire going while at work.
Much too soon to tell yet.
I was very surprised to see that the firebox is much larger than I had imagined a stove that is only 12.5" deep would be.
I think I can get 5 or 6 splits in it.
I have thus far only one complaint, and that is every time I go in the house, I get cold!
I've never cared for the forced air furnace in the house, and now coming from a very warm shop into a much cooler house is going to be a challenge...
I'm really enjoying it, day #1 is a big success!
More as I learn how to run this thing.
Rob
