New Blaze King

[stoveliker]

Post in thread 'Ducting heat to other rooms' https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/ducting-heat-to-other-rooms.123017/post-1666326

Air handler is an ill-defined concept.
A fan handles air.

I believe code has been interpreted (in the US, not sure about Canada) that you can't suck away air into a duct (whatever larger system it is a part of or not) from within 10 ft of a stove.
Not sure what "directly from the stove means"; 10 ft is the language.

 

[nortcan]

I forgot to say that the alcove is not a regular one. Plus the system has been checked by a certified stove installator/ chimney sweep and others ...There are 5 smoke alarms, 2 in the basement, 1 on the main floor and 2 at the upstairs, one of them is beside my bed table just over a floor grid. Plus one Co alarm on each of the 3 floors. Fire dep. inspectors came many times during the past years and they said I was over protected ...

 

[Highbeam]

I forgot to say that the alcove is not a regular one. Plus the system has been checked by a certified stove installator/ chimney sweep and others ...There are 5 smoke alarms, 2 in the basement, 1 on the main floor and 2 at the upstairs, one of them is beside my bed table just over a floor grid. Plus one Co alarm on each of the 3 floors. Fire dep. inspectors came many times during the past years and they said I was over protected ...

Hearthstone does make a nice looking stove.

 

[nortcan]

Your right Highbeam, nice stoves. Here in Québec, Hearthstone stoves are very easy to sell. I advertised my Heritage 8024 and told to my wife : I take one month to sell it, if in one month the stove is not sold, we will keep it... hum-hum, one day after the advertisement, the stove was sold. I had a few Hearthstone stoves and they all sold very fast. One good point for Hearthstone.

 

[shoot-straight]

I had A hearthstone pheonix for 8 years. It was lovely to look at. Got a ashford, wouldn't trade back. Ever. At about the 10 yr mark I think now? I got it when they first came out. No regerts! 😎

BK and BKVP are fantastic. No equal in customer service. Hearthstone customer service stunk, but my hearthstone dealer was awesome.

Only thing I'd swap it out for would be a princess, just to see how it would do in my space. They are pretty fugly in my opinion though.

I'm an alcove guy as well.

 

[nortcan]

Something I don't understand ; in the B.K. manual it is said to not install the stove in an uninsulated basement or a shop/garage....That may cause the thermostat to be unresponsive due to constant call for heat resulting in appliance being in a constantor over fire situation...So when installing an outside air kit, the air from outside is cold/very cold compared to the inside of the house air, that cold air is send on the thermostat device, the thermostat's coil will be constantly feed with cold air so how does it do to control the stove burn rate? Thanks

 

[shoot-straight]

I don't think the stat gets air from the intake. It monitors the air temp "around" the stove. Mine is in a little alcove w brick, there was fear I would Have a problem - (would get too hot) but it's been fine. And it's been talked about to death, running the fan tricks the stat by pulling in room air and blowing it around it, so it opens more often. If you set the stove outside (or in a really cold place that won't warm up) yes the stat would never warm up enough to close and possibly overfire. Same principle

 

[nortcan]

I don't think the stat gets air from the intake. It monitors the air temp "around" the stove. Mine is in a little alcove w brick, there was fear I would Have a problem - (would get too hot) but it's been fine. And it's been talked about to death, running the fan tricks the stat by pulling in room air and blowing it around it, so it opens more often. If you set the stove outside (or in a really cold place that won't warm up) yes the stat would never warm up enough to close and possibly overfire. Same principle

I wish I get a exploded view of the stove's back showing the air inlet path. I my owner's manual, there is photos but not for the air intake path. BTW, is it you on your avatar, just to know .

 

[begreen]

I wish I get a exploded view of the stove's back showing the air inlet path. I my owner's manual, there is photos but not for the air intake path. BTW, is it you on your avatar, just to know .

Here ya go

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[nortcan]

Thank you Begreen, I should study that nice B.K. vidéo for the fed air, sometimes it looks like coming from a port at the left side of the stove and sometimes from under the thermostat channel.

 

[stoveliker]

It's the big rectangular bar centered below where the thermostat sits, it is open at the bottom.

 

[nortcan]

When placing the stove in place, I noticed that the heavy cast iron top was not sitting at the same height from one corner to the other ones, so when touching one corner, the opposite corner was playing down or up...just like a chair with unequal legs. So I placed a nut to lock the bolts in place at the good height. The enameled top is very well wrapped for transport and manipulations so wrapping and unwrapping it may change the original bolts position cause they are not tighten and easy to screw or unscrew accidentally ...Just a little detail 4 nuts.

 

[nortcan]

On my Ashford 30.2A ( why the A ??? ), the thermostat knob adjustment arrow is on the back of the knob, . More difficult to see the thing at the back ... I tried a simple on the front of the knob adjustments vision with marks on it. No permanent modifications on the stove itself.

 

[nortcan]

On my Ashford 30.2A ( why the A ??? ), the thermostat knob adjustment arrow is on the back of the knob, . More difficult to see the thing at the back ... I tried a simple on the front of the knob adjustments vision with marks on it. No permanent modifications on the stove itself.

Just a simple slide on the back of the original dial plate.

 

[nortcan]

The Ashford 30.2 asks for a certain learning curve to get the best of it. I'm just 75 so I still have lot of time to learn ... Burning the B.K. for 2 months now, and during very cold days, the stove can easily keep the entire house ( 2,100 Sq Ft ) very confortable but even more, the steady heat is so confortable without high and low temperature variations like many other stoves we got in the past 50 Yrs. The best of it for us is the 12 Hrs burn times. 12 Hrs is easy to manage : load at 9 in the morning and re-load at 9 in the evening, shure the stove can make a lot more burn time but it's easy that way for us. And when I say re-load, it's on a heavy load of coal chunks, just load wood and that, it.

 

[Tron]

And when I say re-load, it's on a heavy load of coal chunks, just load wood and that, it.

Sometimes you have to plan it a little, I've done the same and ended up with a little more coals on each reload, effectively reducing the amount of wood I could add.
But what works well is the practice of placing one split on the coals a few hours before the planned reload and run it at WOT. It won't produce maximum heat with just the coals and the one (optional) split, but it'll burn the coals down pretty fast.

 

[nortcan]

Sometimes you have to plan it a little, I've done the same and ended up with a little more coals on each reload, effectively reducing the amount of wood I could add.
But what works well is the practice of placing one split on the coals a few hours before the planned reload and run it at WOT. It won't produce maximum heat with just the coals and the one (optional) split, but it'll burn the coals down pretty fast.

Good idea.....But what I like with a steady schedule is I don't have to do anything else except to level the big coals and load the stove. All is super hot and ready for the next 12 Hrs . When burning anthracite some Yrs ago, that was the best way to get steady heat and keep the house 24/24 same temperature in the entire house. My Ashford can do the same easily! ** First time I fall in love with a stove **😁 ! I know, 2 months is just a short honeymoon but we will see!

 

[Tron]

I'm just saying there might come a time when you use less heat, turn it lower, and then discover that you hardly can fit any splits in there because it's full of coals. Which do provide heat, don't get me wrong, but maybe not enough to last the next 12 hours.
Nature of the beast...and BK's do it a lot better than others.

 

[nortcan]

Yes, you'r right, the best method is the one woking the best for someone.

You know Tron, my English is far from to be as good as yours so hard to transfer my thoughts ...😒