Cat/noncat

[Kylecrane913]

Iam looking to purchase a new stove.
Wood is my primary heat source with oil burning boiler as back up.
I have a 1500sqft ranch with basement.
Stove will be in my unfinished basement.
Previously had a Sierra cast iron stove that heated pretty well with decent burn times.
Currently running a fisher grandma bear that heats well with to short of a burn time for my schedule.
I need roughly 12hr burn time on my stove.
I've been researching the blaze king (princess & king) and like what I'm learning but I'm not entirely sold on the cat stoves.
My wood supply is pretty well seasoned but everyone knows life happens and I like the idea of being able to burn not ideally seasoned wood if needed. Looking for opinions in good non cat stoves that still have a good heat production with 12 hr burn times. Or should I just bite the bullet and spend the dough on a blaze king.
Thanks

 

[BKVP]

If you can't burn well seasoned wood, don't burn any stove. The PM combined with moisture cause deposits in the stack, regardless of combustion technology.

Both technologies will burn wood under 20% just fine. If you fall behind on seasoned wood, you can burn manufactured fuels like BioBricks or North Idaho Energy Logs.

BKVP

 

[Todd]

Insulating your basement will make a huge improvement. And yes dry wood is a must for any stove.

 

[kborndale]

No modern stove will do a good job burning semi seasoned wood. If you attempt 12 hour burns with wet wood you will be creating a ticking creosote time bomb in your chimney. What is your current chimney? A modern stove also requires either a class a chimney or an insulated SS liner in a masonry chimney.

 

[Kylecrane913]

I have a ss liner in a clay flue surrounding by block chimney.
I'm not trying to burn wet wood. But I like being able to have a little more wiggly room with a non cat stove

 

[stovelark]

Every stove will burn great with dry wood, the most expensive and all other stoves will burn poorly on wet wood. Its that simple. Doesn't matter cat or non cat. And trying to burn wet wood is frustrating, it would help adding 2x4s, bio bricks but its still frustrating, been there.