Well Fellows, it happened. Today while at the stove shop in Forest Lake, MN,, my dear wife pulled out the check book and put a down payment on our Alderlea T5 to be installed in April.
What?! Why didn't you talk some sense into her? Like, "Wouldn't you prefer to use that money on some shoes, dear?" It should be a great stove for you.
That's funny right there. Obviously, his wife is smarter than the average bear. Those are nice stoves. Of course, we'd like pics..........
Haha. For sure ! I will most definitely post pics once install takes place. We put down our 10% and he is buying the stove and going to store it for us until everything else falls into place. Just might be a 2019 model, not 100% sure though.
That's a very good stove. Should give you years of reliable performance. Pics of install when it happens please.
Check out their website, and spiel on their tech..made sense to me, and it's a very simple stove. The 2019 is what I got for my SIL; It doesn't have the EBT. We are still learning how to run it. The stove breathes really easy on 15' of stack. Easy to brush the chimney; Just remove one clip, then pull out the baffle.
I'm into my 4th season with mine and I love it. Don't be scared to pack it full, but I'd highly recommend both a stove top and a flue thermometer. The stove has no issues with running HOT - I just keep a good eye on the flue temp.
Already have the flue probe worked into the quote as part of the double wall pipe install. What do you typically see on the probe 18”-24”above collar ?
On my Condar Flueguard I usually keep it in the 600-700 range at peak burning. Not uncommon to see it at 800, I just make sure to keep an eye on it during the start up and throttle down as necessary. Doesn't take long to cut the flue temp at all. With primary air shut all the way down and a full load cruising along nicely the flue temp will usually hang around 600 or less. I have no issue with it cruising a stove top temp of 600. There was only a couple times I think I may have overfired the stove, and the only evidence of that was the inside baffle rails glowing red. Nothing on the outside of the stove was red, nor did it damage anything. All in all I think it's a pretty user friendly stove that's quite resilient to high temps.
It's an easy breathing stove, my stack is about 13' total. If you are going to have a longer run, you may need to just keep a better eye on it during start up with that increased draft. But overall its pretty user friendly. To be fair it's the only stove I've ever owned so I really don't have anything else to compare it to. The selling point for me in particular was the very tight clearances it allows for a corner installation - 3" to combustible from the back corners.
Got a call from Scott the Stove Guy last night. The stove came in and it is in his barn, it is a 2020 "LE" model. Now I just need to keep packing the envelope (I use for saving) full of cash until I reach the goal.
