Love living in an Aframe!!

This is my new Englander 30. I just replace the old buck 2800 that came with our house when we bought it. What an upgrade I'm getting all night burns with lots of coals left in the morning. Couldn't be more happy with my purchase. The only complaint I have is the glass gets really dirty have to clean it every day. You guys think I'm doing something wrong to dirty the glass?

 

Nah, the glass gets dirty.
I clean mine more than I need to, just because I like to see the fire.
One damp paper towel, and one dry one and I'm done. Maybe a slight bit of rubbing in the bottom corners.
Burn a hot fire, and most of it will burn off.
Is that a concrete floor?

 

Good to know. Glad I'm not messing it up.

Yea it was tile. I ripped it up and then painted the concrete then put a gloss polycryalic finish on top. Also added the wood trim.

 

Very cool, and so is that first pic.

 

Thanks. That one was taken from our catwalk.

 

What do you think is the hottest temperature you can run the Englander at safely Papadave?

 

Walling off our A frame to make a private bedroom hope the wall makes my nc30 heat even better once down to below 5 degrees or less she gets pushed a bit to hard. At those temps i run it to 750 stove top 24/7 i dont let it dip below 400... sometimes that requires throwing out good coals. But this year i have propane so i will let em burn a bit longer and have the furnacd help out when it gets just plain nasty out

And the stove hit 900 once .... air wide open full load accident

 

So..... now we needs pics of your A frame, Aframe ... Always loved the looks of them.

 

Looks like your wall is coming along nicely! Thanks for the info TJ on stove temp. The highest I've had it up to is 700. But it hasn't been very cold here in KC yet.

 

Even in the really cold temps we had last year, I don't think I ran mine over about 700 or so. Once it hits 500- everything above feels like the gates of heck. It gets toasty.
I let the DV heater in the back of the house pick up any slack.
Burning that hot just absotively annihilates the wood cache. Check the manual, but I don't remember seeing a set temp.
If the stove glows in the dark, it's too hot.

 

Love your A-frame! My in-laws had one in northern Maine BEAUTIFUL place. They had a preEPA heatilator type fireplace that threw amazing heat. The warmth so wanted to stay up at the peak so they had a big ceiling fan up there. I don't recall if they had the fan blowing up or down, but it distributed the heat over the whole space quite well.

 

Forgot about that backwoods is right. I can reverse my fan direction and literally gain a coupl degrees on the wall stat... and 700 is nothing on the nc30... 900 didnt glow one bit either... but the blower smelled a bit and it also smelled like the paint cured even further but i doubt it did as i have ran the snot out of this stove for a couple years now. Still on original baffles and gaskets. If you do happen to curl your baffle boards from a bit to much air just flip em over they will lay flat again have done that a couple times now

We have barely started on the remodel here and i already feel like tossin in the towel. I have zero saw time and nothing but headaches trying to square things up in an unconventional 70s built A frame. Im no pro at this stuff so its testing me. 1/2 more on this wall a door way and another 12 ft tall wall and im done framing. The peak from the loft floor to the ceiling is 12.5 ft ... lovely cuts ill tell ya

 

I use an NC30 in a detached shop, so when I run it is run as hard and hot as safely possible. The only thing I've damaged is the airwash plate above the door during the warm up at full throttle, it never hit 700 on that run but I learned to shut the draft to 50-75% as soon as I can. Since then the stove has been quite happy to run at 700-750. I haven't hit 800 or made anything glow. The paint is perfect. Do not fear up to 800.

 

The Maple I'm using is nice and dry...no sizzle and lights easily.
Full load of that last night with the air almost off, and I had a nicely blackened glass this morning.
One good hot fire later, and the glass was clean again.
I had a similar situation with the original gasket. Slightly loose on the hinge side, but fine on the latch side. Changed it with a Rutland, which isn't the high density that the stove comes with andit didn't seal right, so I got a new ESW version. No problems since.

 

Wow guys thanks for all your feedback! Plenty advice to try out. I do have a ceiling fan to circulate the air.

 

Nice set up, welcome to the club Aframe

 

Maybe I missed it but how tall is your chimney? Looks like it exits then up outside. In an A frame it might be tall and really pulling hard and creating strong draft. Like 20 feet plus. If that's the case it might be able to draw a little bit of cooler air in past the bottom of your door gasket. Not saying it is but might contribute to glass getting dirtier than otherwise. Nice looking home. Good luck with all the work.

 

I'm in a remodel of my own TJ I'm turning the front loft into an extra bedroom! Kinda funny