Which way to face new stove location installation?

Thanks guys, it is what it is. We were like a well tuned force before I got sick and did some pretty impressive things together over the years. Now it's pretty much him on his own and kid and I "help" . It's mostly time and no other pair of muscles to make it happen like it used to. Kiddo is is getting bigger and really pitching in We're functional in this home, not pretty but functional and that's what counts. Turns out us 3 are a good painting team. He rolls, I trim floor, and kiddo trims the ceiling

 

Thanks, I'm sold on since since Backwoods Savage told me I'm thinking two of the fans below. One to blow our room air into the alcove (floor air is cool), and another on the other kitty corner blowing straight up from floor towards ceiling to circulate air up there too. The room is ~25x20, kitchen/living room and heating all in one area. I have to wait til their delivered though, I'm really quite curious!!

 

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lol, your tub might be orange, I'm still waiting on flooring over the subfloor and a sink in my bathroom I don't mind, toilet works and the shortie tub with lower walls is easier for me to get in and out of.

 

That is like ours. They have changed it so you can adjust the angle where ours can tilt just a little bit. The vornado fans are great. Just run on low speed for moving the air. Save fast speeds for summer.

 

I bought a couple knock off Honeywells, they work fine but now I'm spoiled with how quiet Vornados are.

 

Yeah, I hate noisy fans.

 

Farm out, reloaded the stove. I'm at 1 O'clock and cat is crusing along at med/high.

 

Glass airwash? Glass is dirty on both bottom corners. And now the soot looks like someone threw glitter on it. Our wood is loosely cut to about the depth of the stove. We had an incredible mud storm last winter. Yes, mud. Literally chunks of silt mud from the bottom of an emptied lake, husband pressure washed windows, trucks, 5th wheel etc. It also deposited 3" layer of lake mud on our wood pile. We banged the mud off but there's still some on the nooks and crannies, is this whats causing the glitter?

 

Same, I hope to never see one again, and it was lake bottom silt mud. 3" on our entire property that dried like cement. Huge clean up, couldn't see out of any of the windows til husband borrowed a pressure washer from work.

 

Creosote I can't imagine it's my wood, it was deliverd split in 2021, he said he cut it 2020, lodgepole pine.

I didn't take pics of the mud storm, wish I would have. Stove is running well as expected, we go 6-8 hours between reloads, that's a big deal for us! Except I've had to supplement with the pellet stove a few nights I was up late now that were around and under 10*, otherwise we use both in the morning to warm the house back up. I took the vornado fan from bedroom and that's helping a bit.

 

Thank you, and yes, low and slow most of the day. I've never had glass before except the pellet stove.

 

Check mark on very dry softwoods, it doesn't coal like what I've seen here like hardwoods, literally burns down to a puff of 100% ash which means lighting the stove again. So we've been refilling while there's some glowing red wood left, ~ an inch or two where they land . For real though, 8 hours is GREAT to us, we could test it to see how long we could go but it's been burning 24/7 since we started 8 days ago. I think our splits might be a bit big, they're awesome for feeding giant smoke dragons but I cannot pack the stove tightly like I've seen here at FHC. Thanks a bunch for your input and help!

What kind of pine do you burn?