Thank you for this remarkable resource, it’s been so helpful. If anyone has time to weigh in on what size stove we should buy, we’d really appreciate it.
We’re trying to decide if we need a medium (2cuft) or larger (2.4cuft) free standing wood stove.
We’ve narrowed it down to Hearthstone products, based on the stoves we’ve been able to see in person. We plan to choose between the Manchester or Green Mountain 80 or the Shelburne or Green Mountain 60 - depending upon which size we go with.
I guess we’d be interested in hearing about other stoves you’d recommend (or don’t recommend).
We don’t want a stove that makes the living room so hot that we can’t sit in it but we also have a lot of volume to contend with. I guess our priorities are reliability, aesthetics and efficiency, in that order.
Our newly renovated house is all electric with solar panels, it is heated with mini splits. So, we need to install a backup power source that could maintain livable temperatures in case of power outages. We have a good amount of firewood put up that has been seasoned for several years.
Our home is 2,300 sq ft, with lots of volume - a cathedral ceiling, a double height space with a loft and a fairly open floor plan. The house has very good passive solar and daytime heating needs are generally relatively low. The windows are new and the house seems fairly airtight, I’d say the insulation is pretty good but not amazing.
We will put the stove in the livingroom, (there’s really only one possible site for it in the entire house). The site is indicated with blue tape of the floor in the images (and a red X on the floorplan). The ceiling is 175” high at that point.
There is a ceiling fan in the living room where the stove will be and a fan at the top of the adjoining double height/lofted space. Also, our bedroom adjoins the double height/ lofted space.
Outside of possible power outages, we will mostly burn at night for fun and ambiance (though bringing up the temperature in the whole house will, of course, be valuable.)
We’re trying to decide if we need a medium (2cuft) or larger (2.4cuft) free standing wood stove.
We’ve narrowed it down to Hearthstone products, based on the stoves we’ve been able to see in person. We plan to choose between the Manchester or Green Mountain 80 or the Shelburne or Green Mountain 60 - depending upon which size we go with.
I guess we’d be interested in hearing about other stoves you’d recommend (or don’t recommend).
We don’t want a stove that makes the living room so hot that we can’t sit in it but we also have a lot of volume to contend with. I guess our priorities are reliability, aesthetics and efficiency, in that order.
Our newly renovated house is all electric with solar panels, it is heated with mini splits. So, we need to install a backup power source that could maintain livable temperatures in case of power outages. We have a good amount of firewood put up that has been seasoned for several years.
Our home is 2,300 sq ft, with lots of volume - a cathedral ceiling, a double height space with a loft and a fairly open floor plan. The house has very good passive solar and daytime heating needs are generally relatively low. The windows are new and the house seems fairly airtight, I’d say the insulation is pretty good but not amazing.
We will put the stove in the livingroom, (there’s really only one possible site for it in the entire house). The site is indicated with blue tape of the floor in the images (and a red X on the floorplan). The ceiling is 175” high at that point.
There is a ceiling fan in the living room where the stove will be and a fan at the top of the adjoining double height/lofted space. Also, our bedroom adjoins the double height/ lofted space.
Outside of possible power outages, we will mostly burn at night for fun and ambiance (though bringing up the temperature in the whole house will, of course, be valuable.)
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