blueguy
Feeling the Heat
Congrats dude
Thanks! I'm pretty stoked
Congrats dude
Brag time!
-13 last night. -30 windchill. I loaded the "princess of fire" yesterday at 7am with a full load of 2 year Hedge. I burned it in then set it on 1.5 to cruise. As of 7am this morning the stove still has a few pieces of wood and a nice bed of coals! although, the room temp did fall as low as 68 by reload. stick that in your reburn tube and smoke it. These stoves are the cat's PJ's.
Uh, yeah.Thanks! I'm pretty stoked
Uh, yeah.
So, we need pics of the whole thing.
You will be home to do this, right?
Just priced one out yesterday.
Nice !....That hedge sounds like some pretty good chit
The problem is that this is a small room. The rest of the rooms in the house are being heated with electric heaters because if I push the air around it makes the stove room too cold.So what you're saying is that the stove is maintaining your house temperature in February on one load per 14.5 hours. For comparison, I am currently on a 12 hour cycle and fully loading my stove every 12 hours to maintain the constant house temp. Dude, what's the problem?
Roughly $3000, blower, deck, plain legs and door, no ash pan. I think he added tax, and shipping.Already part of my plan. Full pictorial as it's installed. One of the beefs with all the research I did on this stove was the lack of Sirocco-specific close up pics. Although, my Googlefu is probably more to blame....
What price were you quoted? Mine (pedestal, blowers, convection deck and plain door) is $3991CAD delivered, including 13% sales tax. The King ultra was only $500 more, excluding 8" connector pipe from the stove to the thimble, but I wasn't sure how well it would work on my 6" flue. And to meet code here, the draft needs to be tested on install and be above a specific point otherwise it's a no-go. Too many unknowns right now that could have resulted in having to sell it and go with the Sirocco anyways.
As much as I really wanted to go with the King, the 1450 heated our place well, we just needed something with a similarly sized firebox that produced steady heat, so the Sirocco should fit the bill
I have a couple of questions for anyone with a princess insert...How happy are you with your inserts? When its really cold out (below 0) does it put out enough heat with decent burn times? I'm in the process of trying to pick out an insert and the princess is at the top of the list, but ive heard a couple people complain on here about not getting enough heat out of them. I live in Wisconsin and will be heating a 1900 sqft tri level so heat output is a big concern.
Thanks for any input!
My Princess throws out a ton of heat, my house is about 2800 sf so it can't heat the whole house when its gets too cold but it keeps the main floor in the 70's even when it's 0. The upper rooms can be cooler, 60's or so but it's not the stoves fault, the house really needs a bigger stove to heat 100%. That said if you can do a free stander you'll get more heat and the box is a bit bigger so longer burn times. I do 3 loads a day in the frigid weather, 2 loads when its milder out so it's a good burn time but again not as long as the free stander.I have a couple of questions for anyone with a princess insert...How happy are you with your inserts? When its really cold out (below 0) does it put out enough heat with decent burn times? I'm in the process of trying to pick out an insert and the princess is at the top of the list, but ive heard a couple people complain on here about not getting enough heat out of them. I live in Wisconsin and will be heating a 1900 sqft tri level so heat output is a big concern.
Thanks for any input!
I've looked at the two suggestions, Hechler's and WoodmansPartsPlus. I found the website of WPP to be difficult, whereas Hechler's was very nice. I called Hechler and was helped by an extremely helpful and knowledgeable gentleman.Where do folks buy BK parts ? I need gaskets (front door, bypass door, cat).
I've looked at the two suggestions, Hechler's and WoodmansPartsPlus. I found the website of WPP to be difficult, whereas Hechler's was very nice. I called Hechler and was helped by an extremely helpful and knowledgeable gentleman.
I did have one question. They don't list a gasket for the bypass damper (the door that directs smoke through the cat or straight out the chimney). He said he thought it was generic 1/2" rope gasket; does that sound right to anyone who's actually replaced this gasket ?
Could be normal with really dry wood off gassing fast. How long into the burn?I was outside loading up the trailer with wood thursday and noticed bluish smoke swiring out the chimney from my King Ultra... it was burning pretty high but not full out. Does this sound normal?? Cat was at 3 oclock on the probe and orange hot. Flue was at 750, 800 Deg
I expect smoke under those conditions. Fairly translucent and blue.It was an hour or so in, just loaded with nice big splits of dry Elm.
I've looked at the two suggestions, Hechler's and WoodmansPartsPlus. I found the website of WPP to be difficult, whereas Hechler's was very nice. I called Hechler and was helped by an extremely helpful and knowledgeable gentleman.
I did have one question. They don't list a gasket for the bypass damper (the door that directs smoke through the cat or straight out the chimney). He said he thought it was generic 1/2" rope gasket; does that sound right to anyone who's actually replaced this gasket ?
Happens to be I just pulled the flame guard to blow some some air through my cat for chits and giggles a few mins ago and my cats are all in a line. I do noitce the cells are not as white as they used to be.Anyone notice if the honeycomb blocks in your combustor are moving? The centre block out of the 3 all held together, is pushed in at the bottom on mine. Its getting sucked in like 3/16 of an inch or more. But just on the bottom. The outside blocks seem fine, and i know it was all flat and straight across when i cleaned it out in December...
Can you tell me how long you have had your Blaze King?Interesting, when i called the rep at BK in Vancouver and told him about the centre cell, he sluffed it off as no big deal and said it probably moved during transit. When i told him it was straight a month before, he went silent. And it has moved more in the last 2 weeks. He never got back to me about it, or my door seal thats leaked since new. You would think these things would be built better for the price you pay! I am curious, anyone else with a BK could you have a look at your combustor sometime and just see if it has moved. Then i can have some backup info for Dennis at BK when i tell em to send me a new combustor!
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