During the day I burn around 400. There have only been a couple days (when it was like -40F outside!) that I burned at 500+. I honestly have no clue what the ambient temperature of the stove room or bedrooms are at any given time. During the day, it's cozy enough that I walk around in workout pants and a tank top. In the morning, we put on sweaters. I'd say it's probably 60 in the mornings, and the stove top temp is usually around 200 after burning down all night. I stir the coals, add new logs (haven't needed kindling), and leave the door cracked to get good air flow. It takes off within a couple minutes. I close the door when I feel like it won't snuff right out. Then it takes about 20-30 minutes to get up to 300, where I engage the catalyst. I don't damper it until it hits 400, then I put it at 1/2 closed.
It is very easy to get this stove hotter, but our home is on the small size for the range of this stove so we don't need to run it full tilt. My mom likes a HOT house, so when she stayed once she had it roaring all day long. I kid you not - she had it so hot in here that it melted all the snow off of our metal roof and the roof was steaming. It was like a sauna in here for a good 24 hours after I got home and killed the fire.
Oh, and at 400F surface temp, it takes about 12 minutes to bring 4 quarts of water to a rolling boil. In case you were curious.Someone else PM'd me about that.