I recorded a video this morning to demonstrate how I get my Equinox up to temp from a cold start.
Took about 10 minutes to start feeling heat on the top, 1/2 hour to actually consider it generating heat and after an hour and a half she was cookin. This fire lasted until 5 pm with a very thick layer of blasting coals before I reloaded. The room which is open to the rest of the house (3300sf) is 25 x 25. Temp went from 61° to 75° in that two hour period in the room. Currently it's 9pm and the whole house is around 80 in the main parts. 87° within a 10ft radius around the stove.
As for the video, unless you are hard core into watching other people start fires and watch them burn and listen to a bunch of BS, you may want to skip through it and just look at some of the stuff in the end.
Enjoy.
Took about 10 minutes to start feeling heat on the top, 1/2 hour to actually consider it generating heat and after an hour and a half she was cookin. This fire lasted until 5 pm with a very thick layer of blasting coals before I reloaded. The room which is open to the rest of the house (3300sf) is 25 x 25. Temp went from 61° to 75° in that two hour period in the room. Currently it's 9pm and the whole house is around 80 in the main parts. 87° within a 10ft radius around the stove.
As for the video, unless you are hard core into watching other people start fires and watch them burn and listen to a bunch of BS, you may want to skip through it and just look at some of the stuff in the end.
Enjoy.