Just bought a Wood Stove

[clemsonfor]

Wow what heat, and free too (well after you figure i paid for the stove). Wife says she cant beleive it took so long for me to convince her to get it. Got a used High Valley Cat model stove 2500. It currently is almost heating the whole first floor of my home which is close to 2500sqft. Now granted its not been much below 40 the last 2 nights, but the heat has hardly run the last 2 days. If you dont damp that thing down it will make the paint runn off the walls in the tv room.

One the cats are warm that thing wont even put out any smoke from the chinmey, as it burns all the smoke that is exiting the stove.

 

[Western]

You'll be toasty now, but I don't know about the free part.

Cutting and splitting wood cost allot, beverage of choice, bengay and of coarse you should take this opportunity to go buy a new chainsaw! got to feed that beast.

Does it also have a fan? I didn't look up the model just curious.

 

[blackie65]

Love our wood heat.... and the cutting, splitting and hauling of the wood is GREAT exercise.

 

[MossRoad]

Congratulations! :thumbsup:

This is our third winter heating with wood. Good exercise. Fresh air. Great reward!

 

[Marveltone]

Enjoy your new wood stove. Nothing else can match them for deep, penetrating heat. Lots of work to keep enough firewood on hand but well worth it. We love our wood stove, and we live in the frozen tundra, where it can reach -40!

Now, all you need to do is check on replacement catalysts and keep one on hand. I chose a non-catalyst model for that reason, but it's not really that big of a deal.

Joe

 

[blackie65]

Now, all you need to do is check on replacement catalysts and keep one on hand. I chose a non-catalyst model for that reason, but it's not really that big of a deal.

Joe

Help me out here... what is a replacement catalysts??

 

[MossRoad]

I chose a non-catalyst model for that reason, but it's not really that big of a deal.

Joe

Me, too. And still got an EPA rated stove. :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

Help me out here... what is a replacement catalysts??

There's a catalyst in the stove that the exhaust gases go through. When it gets hot enough, it burns up most of the cantaminants in the exhaust. Pretty similar in function to a catalytic converter on a car. You have to replace them on the stoves every so often. (don't know how often).

 

[DennisArrow]

Fantastic that you finally get to use the fuel that God gives freely. We have been using wood heat for maybe 12 years now and have not turned on either of the 2 heat pumps for like 4 years other than to just exercise them a couple of times each winter. In fact I have the air intakes and vents blocked off........lololol........yes, LOTS of work involved but well worth it........a couple of thoughts.....

Where are you getting your wood? Hope it is at least a few months dry. Maybe cut at the worst last June or July........

Is this home the one that is in the city?......

Someone asked if the stove has a fan. If so DO USE IT......If not try to figure out a way to rig something up as it really does help distribute heat throughout the rest of the home.....Our stove, Harmon TLC 300, has a fan built in but we use a Vornado small fan in a hallway to distribute heat to the back of the house and into a sun room.......WORKS

Depending upon the type of wood you burn watch the creosote build up.......Some folks, myself included, run one really hot fire every day. It helps blast it out of the pipe. In additionm, I use once a week some stuff put out by Rutland that is called "Creosote Remover"......It works quite well.........My old stove, Waterford Ashling, was an air tight and the creosote never did build up in the pipe; but quite a bit of soot up in the last 3 feet or so of the pipe..........This new stove, first year with it, burns differently and a lot hotter and we shall have to see what it does; but on observation it doesnt have the soot build up on the chimney cap that the old stove caused.........

More thoughts later; but WELCOME ABOARD into the great world of wood burning stoves...........God bless.....Dennis

 

[clemsonfor]

You'll be toasty now, but I don't know about the free part.

Cutting and splitting wood cost allot, beverage of choice, bengay and of coarse you should take this opportunity to go buy a new chainsaw! got to feed that beast.

Does it also have a fan? I didn't look up the model just curious.

Yep has a fan thats variable on a riostat (spelling). The company is a smaller one from around ashville NC. They have a plain site but the store here in town has sold them for 20+ years. The parent company made stoves under several names for others i beleive to, its really a welding company is what it started as.

I have a saw that is only 5 years old, as i have burned wood my self for years and cut for years before that for family.