Hows those Drolet Myriad, Austral, Baltic and Legend stoves doing?

Oldspark, Hows your stove working this year?

Is it keeping your house warm on really cold windy nights?

I know you have spoke before you really challenge a stove where you live and your house setup.

Dont you have alot of big windows?

 

I will add something I have found to help heat on really cold nights.

In the past I would on really cold nights get in a trap thinking oh its really cold
I need to get the stove set just perfect get that air control set as "low" as I can get it
to go and not kill the flames. Well I figured out the hard way that I am not burning as
efficient doing that. The word efficient as in getting as much heat out of my wood as I can.
As when I set that stove to its lowest setting I am loosing some of the heat need to
get good secondary action on the stove and that secondary flames action is the burning
of smoke that is usually wasted up the flue as un-burnt fuel from the wood.

I noticed a few times if I let the input air a little more open I may not get as long of burn but
when I woke up in the morning the house was warmer. I still had enough coals to start new fire
even tho I left the input air open wider. I figured out that leaving that input air open just a tad more was
getting me more heat out of the wood due to better burning of the smoke gases which is where alot
of the heat comes from in these type stoves as I call them smoke burner stoves more than wood stoves.
when you burn something as a gas like smoke burning you get much more heat from that mode of burning.

Next time you are heating up your stove watch how fast the stove top temps take off when you notice secondary burning kicks in.
Its much faster acceleration of heat climb of the stove top temp once the smoke gases start burning as your getting much
more heat that mode of burning.

 

I replaced an old leaky sliding glass door this fall and the house heats much better now, yep all sorts of south facing windows.

 

"In the past I would on really cold nights get in a trap thinking oh its really cold
I need to get the stove set just perfect get that air control set as "low" as I can get it
to go and not kill the flames. Well I figured out the hard way that I am not burning as
efficient doing that. The word efficient as in getting as much heat out of my wood as I can.
As when I set that stove to its lowest setting I am loosing some of the heat need to
get good secondary action on the stove and that secondary flames action is the burning
of smoke that is usually wasted up the flue as un-burnt fuel from the wood."
Yes indeed a hot fire is an efficient fire, I have always wondered why so many talk about turning the stove way down low for over night.

 

My classic is doing a fine job heating my 1000 sq foot house


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