Wood stove question - help?

[Beeherder]

All that money on quality product and installation, gee just think what you're missing by not buying the cheapest stove on the market and putting it in yourself. Why you could have learned what i did about reading the product description VERRRY carefully. The only stove in the catalog that does not state clearly that it has an air intake control and guess what? Yup, no air intake control at all. Hmmm, good thing it is properly sized and does heat the house nicely for me. The flue control is useful and does slow the burn but is not the same as being able to put your fire out by closing the air intake. Bet yours can do that. Now if that tax refund matered and i had more money that stove you picked sounds great.

Upside: my new stove has a big window and lights the room with its nice warm glow
downside: it burns for 3.5 hours instead of 5 that i had expected

that's OK my dog is a great fire watch, he wakes me up when the fire gets low on cold nights.

Here's a tip for keeping your new stove's window sparklingly clean and clear all the time. I just learned this from the fella who helped me install the stove. When the window gets a little clouded or smudged let the fire burn out then use a wet paper towel (just a corner wet) dipped in the ashes to scrub the window. Might have to clean off the excess with another just dampened towel. Only do this when stove and window are cool of course. Enjoy

[Harold in Kentucky]

You're welcome. Glad to be of help. That's the same stove we have. Got my numbers mixed up. A 1250 is the midget model =)

Ours is keeping us nice and toasty at the moment while it's about 10 degrees outside with the wind chill. Brrr!!!

Enjoy! If you have questions as you go along, always happy to help if I can. And if I don't know, I'm one of those people who will say "I don't know".

[MountainMeg]

Appreciate it Harold.  Hubby just loves this stove.

Beeherder, one thing I know is my limitations!  If I tried to put the thing in, I'd have a hole in my roof for a week!     I'm cheap wherever I can be, but saved up and paid cash for this baby.  I don't think the fire goes out when the flue thingy (see why I didn't install it?) is in all the way, but it does slow it down for an overnight burn.  Packed, the stove is supposed to get a 10 hour burn time.

[darwinslair]

Appreciate it Harold.  Hubby just loves this stove.

Beeherder, one thing I know is my limitations!  If I tried to put the thing in, I'd have a hole in my roof for a week!     I'm cheap wherever I can be, but saved up and paid cash for this baby.  I don't think the fire goes out when the flue thingy (see why I didn't install it?) is in all the way, but it does slow it down for an overnight burn.  Packed, the stove is supposed to get a 10 hour burn time.

Quite a few insurance companies will refuse to cover a woodstove that is not installed by a professional.

check with your insurance agent about requirements before installing anything like this.

Tom

[Beeherder]

Sage wisdom shared, and you are right again Tom.

Of course this house is 37 years old and had the same hole in the roof when I bought it 25 years ago and all that i have been doing is putting another stove at the bottom of the stove pipe every few years. Hmm the stove that was here when house was purchased had essentially no controls and boy could it kick out the heat for about 3 hours. Nearly froze to death that first year cuz there were single pane indoor french doors that had been installed as exterior doors. Wow, nothing like frost on the inside yer windows to make you upgrade, took me nearly 12 years to get it upgraded properly. The next stove was a Dutch West with catalytic converter and it was good for 9 years with the catalytic converter replaced once in year 5, then i bought an undersized little box that is sitting beside the current stove which replaced a borrowed box stove with great controls but no view of the fire.

Hope no one is imitating what eye do and that some of you might notice I'm telling you about my mistakes so that perhaps you might not need to make them yourself, instead you can make fun of that old bag of gas and what a stoopid guy he is doing those dumb things all the time. And gee sure glad we're smarter than him now that he told us that.

Stay warm, hug yer honey 

[MountainMeg]

Yep Tom.  I'm having State Farm come inspect the installation Weds.  They told me my insurance would go up a whole (drumroll please) $50/year. 

[darwinslair]

Yep Tom.  I'm having State Farm come inspect the installation Weds.  They told me my insurance would go up a whole (drumroll please) $50/year. 

Yup.  They dont surcharge them much. But if they are not installed correctly, or if they are not UL listed, they will give you x-number of days to have it removed or replaced, or your policy evaporates  <smile>  (guess who works for State Farm)

Tom

[Ryder]

I once installed a old stove (round oak duplex) in a dome home with about 15 feet of straight stovepipe out the center of the rounded structure The stove drew so well it turned the stovepipe cherry red and the pipe started to buckle. After I put a damper in the stovepipe it was more controlable. That was a great old stove. It had a grate that could burn coal and a draft tube that came down from the top evidently to pre heat the incoming air. The front door had mica sheets in it to cast a little light. That stove stood over four feet high and was quite the centerpiece.

[MountainMeg]

Why I'm glad we got the stove when we did.  Heading for us right now:

"THE WINTER STORM WARNING IS NOW IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM SAT TO
7 AM EST SUNDAY.

LIGHT SNOW WILL OVERSPREAD THE AREA EARLY SAT MORNING WITH
AN INCH OR TWO OF ACCUMULATION LIKELY BY DAYBREAK. THE SNOW WILL
BECOME HEAVIER ON SAT & CONTINUE THROUGH SAT EVENING
BEFORE TAPERING OFF EARLY SUN MORNING. SNOWFALL TOTALS OF 10 TO
12 INCHES ARE LIKELY BY LATE SAT NIGHT."

The schools have canceled all activities tomorrow, my son's bowling league is canceled, and we're going to stay right here all cozy warm.

[Mike]

"Glad" is good.

Thankful is when the electricity goes out.

[Beeherder]

and aren't you glad you split all that wood ahead of the storm so you don't have to go out in the driving blizzard to split firewood. It has been interesting watching the fella who moved here from Florida learning why you split wood in August and September when the weather is nice.

mid 50s today's forecast so maybe the rest of the snow from that last storm will melt. So today is the day I'll bring firewood from the outside pile to the dry inside storage area which has enough space for a two week cold spell's worth of split wood inside the house. Glad is when you have plenty of kindling AND dry wood when the storm hits, thankful is when the stewpot full of all those summer wonders warms so nicely on that stovetop.

Enjoy!

[MountainMeg]

Oh, it's nice.  We bought one cord of split firewood and stacked another 1/2 cord hubby cut up and brought home from his work location.  It's 19 outside and 73 in the house.  We've already surpassed 14" of snow and the storm is supposed to go through 7am tomorrow.  No power outages thank goodness, but we heard on the Weather Channel that part of one state (we missed which one) lost power and it probably won't be back up until Thursday.   

[opsec]

How much wood are you going through during this cold snap?

[offdalip]

No power outages thank goodness, but we heard on the Weather Channel that part of one state (we missed which one) lost power and it probably won't be back up until Thursday.

that's why it's nice to have a backup, I've been thru enough power outages, thank you

[MountainMeg]

I'm estimating about 3 cu ft today, and that's including the restuffing of the stove box coming up.  We're up to 22" of snow now.