daddyoneleg
ArboristSite Lurker
I live in Northern BC and use a 5700 quadrafire.All my family burns wood.Blaze King,Regency,Homeade 8 cu ft 3/8 plate stove all have good and bad points.Bigger is better for us. A -45c all night burn,low btu firewood and stove placement along with house size and insulation all play a factor.There is a huge difference between a ''saturday night burner'' or a full time wood burning demand. New stoves are so efficient but in the spring and fall they burn too hot with the min. air hole used to keep the stove buning clean,unless you go Blaze King with the fact that the catalist is a comsumable.When it comes to real heat and 12hr burn times, Dads homemade plate stove puts out the best bar none.Dad calls the stoves that won't burn all night ''small bladder stoves'' hence build for people who get up to pee once or twice in the night and put wood in while they are up. My Quadrafire is great but the firebox cracked to the outside so Warranty is on the menu. My ideal wood stove wood be a 5.0 cubic foot non-catalyst,end feed 24'' wood, with a thermostat to cut back the air in the night when most secondary burn non-cats heat spike like none other. Right now I would settle for a Blaze King-King model and just accept the fact the catalyst is a consumable and 8'' chim is pricey. Just my 2 cents worth..........
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