Greetings,
New guy here. Looking for some recommendations for long term. I live on the coast of Maine and heat primarily with a wood stove. I am heating an open floorplan ranch thats 1500 sq/ft with 11' ceilings on one half, there is a large amount of glass. 1970 construction and seams to hold temp very well. I have a modern propane fired Veissmann boiler as my "backup. The stove is a Hearthstone Heritage 8021 (non-catalytic), original chimney is a large open design made of reclaimed cobble stones. I installed what I have 3 years ago and installed a 6" stainless flexible liner with a cleanout at the bottom. I doubt I could get a 8" liner through the center. Total height is 14'. The problem I have is I leave for work at 6:00 am and get home at 4:30. No matter what I do I have no coals left when I get home, so I am lighting a new fire every day. Combine this with the time required for the Hearthstone to get to approx 300f center top means I am not heating the space until almost 7:00. I am seriously considering one of the "30" series of Blaze king stoves. What experience do people have with something like the Princess 32 in a similar footprint and will it draft well with a 14' chimney (I have no issues with draft now). I would like to be able to go 12 hours easily and be able to add wood twice a day. Just as a point, the Hearthsone is rated for up to 8 hrs and max 55,000 btu's. When I am home and run it around the clock I have no issues heating to 72f when its 10f outside.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Daniel
New guy here. Looking for some recommendations for long term. I live on the coast of Maine and heat primarily with a wood stove. I am heating an open floorplan ranch thats 1500 sq/ft with 11' ceilings on one half, there is a large amount of glass. 1970 construction and seams to hold temp very well. I have a modern propane fired Veissmann boiler as my "backup. The stove is a Hearthstone Heritage 8021 (non-catalytic), original chimney is a large open design made of reclaimed cobble stones. I installed what I have 3 years ago and installed a 6" stainless flexible liner with a cleanout at the bottom. I doubt I could get a 8" liner through the center. Total height is 14'. The problem I have is I leave for work at 6:00 am and get home at 4:30. No matter what I do I have no coals left when I get home, so I am lighting a new fire every day. Combine this with the time required for the Hearthstone to get to approx 300f center top means I am not heating the space until almost 7:00. I am seriously considering one of the "30" series of Blaze king stoves. What experience do people have with something like the Princess 32 in a similar footprint and will it draft well with a 14' chimney (I have no issues with draft now). I would like to be able to go 12 hours easily and be able to add wood twice a day. Just as a point, the Hearthsone is rated for up to 8 hrs and max 55,000 btu's. When I am home and run it around the clock I have no issues heating to 72f when its 10f outside.
Thoughts?
Thanks,
Daniel