Blaze King "King" model

Poached this from another forum where the guy got a BK King model installed, and doesn't like it. Is it the stove or is it the guy? Most guys speak highly of BK do they not?

Here's one week after the install.

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Well, a week in, and colour me unimpressed.

I am contemplating how they (the manufacturers) would feel about my cutting another hole in this thing and welding on another air intake to see if I can get some heat out of it.

Long burn times at low output I don't feckin' need. LOTS of bloody heat, when I want it, is what I need!

Been lit for a week, damped it down to about 1/2 of max, overnight, at the lowest, and it was still half full in the morning. Left it wide open last night, went to bed early, on nowhere near a full load of wood, and it was pretty much burnt right down to ash, but still hot.

Dry fir, dead standing, popcorn fart dry, was on the actual ground for less than an hour before being split and stacked. Wonderful firewood!

Just does not seem to throw heat enough. Time to graft on a forced air fan on the stove case. Oh, and the stink of fricken smoke through the house, every time the stove is loaded. Crap design for anything but a living room stove that will only provide comfort heat, and will be allowed to burn down to nothing before being opened again. No smoke on opening, but between the time you put the first fresh block of wood in, and the last, LOTS!

Housing for the cat converter impinges lower into the box than the frame of the door, making it a PITA to load wood in unless you duck down low enough to see where it is going, so as to not hang up half way in.

Not very happy with this as a buy. Would have much preferred to have been able to put in one of the RSF units. EPA!<spit>

 

I would love to see a pic of the stove because to me it sounds like you got the USSC 2007B, aka "King" model. It is EPA exempt and has no intake damper, onky a flue damper. I have this same stove installed in my garage.

 

For how long? Might not be the stove.

 

BK stoves have very loyal following and great reputation. I'm not buying it. Just my 2 cents ... about what it is worth no doubt.

 

I'm pretty sure the guy has a BK, as he wanted a different stove that was $2500, and this one was $1500 more than that one.

USSC are modestly priced made in China stoves aren't they?

 

That's what I thought, BK is like a Cadillac of wood stoves right?

 

^^^ Yes,

I think the guy needs to learn how to run it.... After a few weeks learning what stat position you need they are wonderfull. But a bit of a learning curve to start, getting used to when to engage cat without blowing your load is the first part to master.... Then the stat position.

If he is either ending with a full load in the AM or no coals in the AM he hasnt learned the stove yet.

 

Some people can't be told nothing!

I wouldn't even try steering the guy in the right direction. Too many windbags on that forum and good advice falls on deaf ears.

 

Smoke could be not enough flue and/or paint curing. Not enough heat from that stove could be the house is HUGE or poorly insulated/drafty.
He's doing it wrong, and not willing to learn.

 

My Princess had curing paint smell for almost a month as i reached higher and higher temps...

And it took me about a month to learn the new stove coming off of a USSC Magnolia 2500(Junk).

 

His previous stove was something called an RSF 65 (smoke dragon), and according to google snooping, would hold 5 cubic feet of wood.

 

BK King here heating 2450sqft love it!!!....you just need to be smarter than the stove

 

Exactly

 

Actually, setting the stat at 50% should result in a burntime around 20 hours so overnight and half load remaining is what I would have guessed. It's also not a lot of heat. He didn't leave the stove at 100% draft, he left the thermostat at 100%. This is okay because the thermostat will automatically close the draft to prevent overfire. The manufacturer actually told that other forum that a full load at max stat setting is okay.

Smoke spillage tells us that his chimney does not meet spec.

The real problem is that the king will never make as much heat as a 5 c.f. smoke Dragon glowing red.

 

It was a non wood stove forum where I got the story from. Another forum, not the other forum.

 

This is bordering on mental abuse.
Brain hurtage.

 

LOL Im glad you set us straight.... I was jumping to conclusions on that one.

 

Blaze King seems to make some pretty good stoves, yeah they have some minor issues here and there like any other stove and learning curve, etc. They also seem to rate there stoves pretty accurately, and if that is the case the King is geared for a bit lower heat, with high output rating around 50kbtu. If that fellow really had a 5 cuft smoke dragon prior that he ran balls to the walls then yeah I could see the King not putting out as much heat, but I've never had one.

But Sask, are you contemplating the King or BK? Or just trying to stir the pot here by taking a controversial post from that other hearth forum lol.

 

BK is too rich for my blood! Although I did eyeball the Chinook and Scirocco models. And it was a post taken from a non hearth or firewood forum.