Hey everyone!
I was hoping you folks might be able to help me narrow down a selection for a new wood stove. My house currently has a Vermont Castings Intrepid II which is shot (inside is warped).
Some information that might be helpful for my next series of questions. The wood stove is located in an addition built in 1988. Overall square footage of the house is ~3300 sq ft. The stove is in a room that I use as my office and rough guess is ~20x20 or 20x25 wide and opens into a wide hallway that has a powder room and then goes to the kitchen. There is a small (~6x10) opening in the ceiling where there is a walkway that is in the hallway between the master suite (which sits over the addition) and the upstairs of the home. On the other side of the kitchen there are two doors (one to the dining room and one to the rest of the downstairs).
The stove currently sits on a 4x4 pad of tile with a 40"x34.5" tile backer and the rest of the wall is dry wall (I presume the tile is over drywall). Current chimney pipe measures 7" from the wall (wall to side of pipe) and ~10" on center (center line of the pipe). I suspect I'll need to move that forward a bit even using double walled pipe.
I'm looking for a new stove to use for supplemental heat and ambiance. House is heated with a furnace and a three zone hydronic baseboard system. The room the stove is located in is also the room I use as my office, so I don't want (can't have) the thing burning so hot it becomes uncomfortable in it.
I've narrowed down contenders to:
Hearthstone Heritage or Castleton
Jotul F445
Vermont Castings Intrepid or Dauntless
From what I've gathered, Vermont Castings quality seems to have dropped some and people have issues (at least on threads I can find here). So if those are not good options, it really leaves the Jotul and the Hearthstone series of stoves (unless there are others I should seriously consider).
From a looks perspective, I find the Hearthstone to be more attractive. I do know (from reading and talking to sales people) that they don't radiate as intense of a heat but they do hold their heat longer.
Just wanted to find out a little more about any of these stoves and whether one is significantly better than the other as far as quality, etc., and also given my desired use of supplemental heat and ambiance.
If there is any other information that might be helpful to add, let me know and I'm happy to get it together.
I was hoping you folks might be able to help me narrow down a selection for a new wood stove. My house currently has a Vermont Castings Intrepid II which is shot (inside is warped).
Some information that might be helpful for my next series of questions. The wood stove is located in an addition built in 1988. Overall square footage of the house is ~3300 sq ft. The stove is in a room that I use as my office and rough guess is ~20x20 or 20x25 wide and opens into a wide hallway that has a powder room and then goes to the kitchen. There is a small (~6x10) opening in the ceiling where there is a walkway that is in the hallway between the master suite (which sits over the addition) and the upstairs of the home. On the other side of the kitchen there are two doors (one to the dining room and one to the rest of the downstairs).
The stove currently sits on a 4x4 pad of tile with a 40"x34.5" tile backer and the rest of the wall is dry wall (I presume the tile is over drywall). Current chimney pipe measures 7" from the wall (wall to side of pipe) and ~10" on center (center line of the pipe). I suspect I'll need to move that forward a bit even using double walled pipe.
I'm looking for a new stove to use for supplemental heat and ambiance. House is heated with a furnace and a three zone hydronic baseboard system. The room the stove is located in is also the room I use as my office, so I don't want (can't have) the thing burning so hot it becomes uncomfortable in it.
I've narrowed down contenders to:
Hearthstone Heritage or Castleton
Jotul F445
Vermont Castings Intrepid or Dauntless
From what I've gathered, Vermont Castings quality seems to have dropped some and people have issues (at least on threads I can find here). So if those are not good options, it really leaves the Jotul and the Hearthstone series of stoves (unless there are others I should seriously consider).
From a looks perspective, I find the Hearthstone to be more attractive. I do know (from reading and talking to sales people) that they don't radiate as intense of a heat but they do hold their heat longer.
Just wanted to find out a little more about any of these stoves and whether one is significantly better than the other as far as quality, etc., and also given my desired use of supplemental heat and ambiance.
If there is any other information that might be helpful to add, let me know and I'm happy to get it together.