Hello all, I need some help in choosing a fireplace for my house that is going to be built this next summer. In my research Hearth.com kept coming up so I thought I would join and just ask. The house that we are planning on building is 2600sqft with 9 ft ceilings on the first floor. The fireplace will be on the first floor. Their are three bedrooms as well as a family room on the second floor. The first floor has a living room, kitchen, dining room, master and an office. The fireplace will be on an exterior wall and the face of the fireplace will be flush with the wall. What ever fireplace we choose needs to be EPA certified since we have a strict fire burning policy in the area. The fireplace also needs to be zero clearance because that's just what we want.
We have considered the Lennox Montecito Estate/BIS Tradition, Valcourt FP9, but the closest dealer that their website says is their dealer has never heard of them. Which brings us to the FPX and the RSF. If we did the RSF Opel 3 we would do a clean face kit and hook it into the Central Heating system. Also I would have to find someone to install it or do it myself since the nearest dealer is about an hour and a half away and is not very interested in doing the install.
So I guess my question is which fireplace will keep our house the warmest in the winter with the heat spread throughout the house as evenly as possible? We don't want it 90 degrees in the living room and 65 in one of the bedrooms. What can we expect for burn times for the FPX and the RSF considering that we don't have any real hardwood around here to burn? My wife likes the look of the FPX mostly because it is big, but she said that she would go with what ever would heat the house better. How well does the FPX posi pressure work compared to just hooking into the central heating ducts with the RSF?
From what I have read the FPX puts off a ton of heat we just want to make sure that heat moves throughout the house and whenever I see someone comment on the RSF they just say "it heats my 3000sqft house well". So which would be better for us?
Thanks
We have considered the Lennox Montecito Estate/BIS Tradition, Valcourt FP9, but the closest dealer that their website says is their dealer has never heard of them. Which brings us to the FPX and the RSF. If we did the RSF Opel 3 we would do a clean face kit and hook it into the Central Heating system. Also I would have to find someone to install it or do it myself since the nearest dealer is about an hour and a half away and is not very interested in doing the install.
So I guess my question is which fireplace will keep our house the warmest in the winter with the heat spread throughout the house as evenly as possible? We don't want it 90 degrees in the living room and 65 in one of the bedrooms. What can we expect for burn times for the FPX and the RSF considering that we don't have any real hardwood around here to burn? My wife likes the look of the FPX mostly because it is big, but she said that she would go with what ever would heat the house better. How well does the FPX posi pressure work compared to just hooking into the central heating ducts with the RSF?
From what I have read the FPX puts off a ton of heat we just want to make sure that heat moves throughout the house and whenever I see someone comment on the RSF they just say "it heats my 3000sqft house well". So which would be better for us?
Thanks