Opinions on the Jotul wood insert ??

We are looking to purchase a wood fireplace insert. Our local dealer sells these plus Vermont Castings and Harman. Looks like the Jotul are awfully nice.

 

I like my jotul 550. Heats our 1600 sq feet very nice. For xtra cold days, we sometimes choose to shut a couple rooms door upstairs. Great for my wife who likes it warmer in the house.
A couple of criticisms, the 550 (and the 350) are flush units, so you would get a bit more heat from a similar sized unit that stuck out into room a bit more. There is also no ashlip. I find the blowers suck in a fair bit of ash. The blowers are relatively loud as well. This is the only insert I’ve owned so not sure how other blowers are.
How many sq feet are you heating? How wide is your hearth extension?

 

Same stove as Ctwoodtick and very similar observations.

Decent heater for us, on the below 20F days it struggles and unfortunately you really need the blower to get good heat (loud.)

Has been reliable for ten years, easy enough to clean, looks nice.

 

Heating about 1600 sq ft and hearth is about 39" wide

 

Jotul has their manuals online. You can measure your dimensions and choose best options for your needs. Make sure to pay attention to how far your hearth extension extends into room. That might, in part, dictate what insert you choose, being that some jotul insert are flush and some extend a few inches into room, requiring additional hearth. Go to jotul website, find “technical documentation”, then “manual”. That should tell you what will work with your set up.

 

My brother in law just put a Jotul in last year (he's offered to help me put my insert in hopefully this fall) it's really nice looking, well made but his one complain is the blower is very loud. I don't have much to compare it to and I did hear it in person and it was a little loud. I've been trying to read a lot and research a lot about inserts and from what am gathering most are pretty loud. But again I have very little experience.

I've been looking at Jotuls as well because of what was mentioned above about them being flush. I don't have much hearth space so anything sticking out more into the room is going to throw me off the recommendations of combustible material distance. The Jotul will get me at the recommendations however they are a little $$ for me at this time. Has anyone heard or have a Timberwolf? Apparently they are made by Jotul but the no frills model, seem to have gotten good reviews.

 

I pulled the trigger on a Quadra - Fire Voyageur Grand . I will get it installed in a few weeks. In the mean time lots of cut trees down so time to use my new CS 590 Timber Wolf and splitter and get lots of wood stacked. Thanks for all the input and advice.

 

Going with the black. It is a better color for the room

 

You'll appreciate the quadrafire. I love my 4100i.

The voyager is a beautiful stove.

 

**Correction** Timberwolf model is made by Napoleon, (their economy line) NOT Jotul my mistake. Nice looking little insert and pretty good efficiency rating! Looking at this and the Drolet for sure!

 

Yes I have a Timberwolf 2200. It’s a fine heater, nice price too so I am glad I put it in. But wish my house wasn’t so drafted...

 

Thanks FB!!! I am looking at their insert along with the Drolet 1800i. Leaning Drolet only because they make a faceplate don't come up to high which gives me more clearance to my combustible mantel and it's firebox is a tiff bigger at 2.4 vs. 1.9 not much but hey every bit counts.

 

It does and I know someone on here has a Napoleon insert as well. g60gti has a 1401 insert if still has. Scotty Overkill has one too I believe 1900 or whatnot. Hard to go wrong with these options. I just picked the oversized stove of the Timberwolf because the smaller one was actually more expensive online and then I knew the heat would be more than needed. House space would be nice to help spread out the heat of course.

 

My bad Scotty, I was doing a search on who had Napoleons so I glanced at a few but that wasn’t stuck in my mind right!