After I get though this winter I'll be looking for another source of heat for my house. I have a Harman TL 300 stove that I feel does not adequately perform as my dealer said it would nor like Harman claims it would. I burn 1.25 to 1.5 face cords of dry hardwoods (oak, hard maple, beech and birch) per week. In order to heat my 2300 square foot home (1150sq ft. is basement where the stove is located) when its below freezing I more or less have to burn the stove wide open to get the basement to a scorching 80 degrees, which gets my upstairs to the low 70's. Any other stove that I am familiar with when burnt wide open for extended periods of time would roast you right out. We have an old Shrader stove in a hunting camp that when burnt any thing more than completely dampered down will roast you right out of the place, which is 1200 square feet sitting on piers, so there is a lot of cold air coming up through the floor. I lived in the camp for a few winters and burnt about 1/4 the amount of wood I burn now and had windows open much of the time. The heat output frustrates me, but more so than that is the timing of the gears that open the lid keeps getting messed up. I had my dealer there once last winter and 4 times so far this winter. When I open the lid to reload the stove it skips past opening the rear damper. He can't seem to fix it and I refuse to attempt to do anything with it. On top of that, the nice brick that is in the firebox, just above the reburn chamber keeps breaking right through the center. A nice little $40 brick. Two so far this winter. The first time my dealer claimed I threw wood in and broke it, didn't happen. The second time, two weeks later, it happened he had no explanation other than Harman knows its an issue, but they won't cover bricks under warranty. I surely wouldn't be rough with it knowing how much the bricks cost. In talking with another dealer he thought maybe the steel was expanding/contracting when heating/cooling down and with such a tight fit something had to give and it was the brick. So with that rant over, any opinions on whether I should cut ties with this Harman and look for something else? If so, what should I be looking in to. There is a Vermont Castings dealer about 2 miles from my house. There is another dealer close by that sell Lopi and Avalon. I will add that I do have HWBB heat, but I want to burn with wood, because its free for me. I'm not against a boiler either indoor or outdoor. I just want to be warm and be done with these headaches.