USMC0802
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We had this stove installed over the summer when the dealer was running a sale. My wife loved the look of the stone compared to the other "industrial" looking stoves. I don't think they had the Morso stoves at the time. We decided on a stove the size of the Mansfield because we wanted something to heat the entire house.
Went through the break in process this fall on a couple evenings when it was cool enough to warm the house up a bit.
The we got farther into the fall and when the temps started getting down into the 40s at night, I tried to get fires going and quickly realized that burning this stove, pretty much at all, with those kinds of temps was going to result in us sweltering inside. At night it wasn't bad, warmer than I like, but SWMBO was really cozy, but during the day, with the stove, and the sun beating in through all the glass on the south side of the house, it was pushing upper 70s inside. One morning, SWMBO felt a little cool and was surprised I was going to let the fire go out. So I didn't and when I left Friday afternoon for some obligations with the reserves, it was 84* upstairs.
So, we decided to just let the heat pump get some work until it was cold enough outside to let the stove work without cooking us.
Now that the temps are only in the 30s during the day and have been cloudy, so minimal heat from the sun on the glass, and the nights have been down in the 20s with windchills in the teens, the stove has been going nonstop for about a week. It's very easy to keep the house at least 68-70*. We have a 9 month old and my wife wants the house a little warmer for her sake. I'd prefer a bit cooler to burn less wood and for my home brewing purposes, but I'll make it work.
So, with a full load of oak and black locust, I can top the stove off at 10:30-11:00 and it heats all night. I'm usually up no later than 7:00 and the stove has been a little above or a little below 300* with a nice bed of coals and it's a piece of cake to get a fire roaring again. I usually get that going as soon as I get out of bed and by the time I'm showered and ready to head out the door, I can stuff the stove to the gills and there will be a nice coal bed there around 5 when I get home.
With only a single air control lever to mess with, it's been easy for my wife to handle reloading the stove or even starting a fire herself. We love having the huge glass door to see the fire, a first for us and after last year waking up to nothing in the stove in the morning in the old stove, I love that I can go to bed without worrying about the house being cold if I don't get up in the middle of the night to refill it.
I love all the benefits of the wood heat, but this one was really nice - last Thursday, the temps plummeted and I let the heat pump do its thing that first night. I got the stove going the next morning and when I checked the daily electric usage today, our usage was cut in half after getting the stove going and not using any sort of electric heat.
The stove heats pretty well when it's not real cold out when the surface temp is around 300+, but it's a beautiful thing when it's in the 450-600* range.
Went through the break in process this fall on a couple evenings when it was cool enough to warm the house up a bit.
The we got farther into the fall and when the temps started getting down into the 40s at night, I tried to get fires going and quickly realized that burning this stove, pretty much at all, with those kinds of temps was going to result in us sweltering inside. At night it wasn't bad, warmer than I like, but SWMBO was really cozy, but during the day, with the stove, and the sun beating in through all the glass on the south side of the house, it was pushing upper 70s inside. One morning, SWMBO felt a little cool and was surprised I was going to let the fire go out. So I didn't and when I left Friday afternoon for some obligations with the reserves, it was 84* upstairs.
So, we decided to just let the heat pump get some work until it was cold enough outside to let the stove work without cooking us.
Now that the temps are only in the 30s during the day and have been cloudy, so minimal heat from the sun on the glass, and the nights have been down in the 20s with windchills in the teens, the stove has been going nonstop for about a week. It's very easy to keep the house at least 68-70*. We have a 9 month old and my wife wants the house a little warmer for her sake. I'd prefer a bit cooler to burn less wood and for my home brewing purposes, but I'll make it work.
So, with a full load of oak and black locust, I can top the stove off at 10:30-11:00 and it heats all night. I'm usually up no later than 7:00 and the stove has been a little above or a little below 300* with a nice bed of coals and it's a piece of cake to get a fire roaring again. I usually get that going as soon as I get out of bed and by the time I'm showered and ready to head out the door, I can stuff the stove to the gills and there will be a nice coal bed there around 5 when I get home.
With only a single air control lever to mess with, it's been easy for my wife to handle reloading the stove or even starting a fire herself. We love having the huge glass door to see the fire, a first for us and after last year waking up to nothing in the stove in the morning in the old stove, I love that I can go to bed without worrying about the house being cold if I don't get up in the middle of the night to refill it.
I love all the benefits of the wood heat, but this one was really nice - last Thursday, the temps plummeted and I let the heat pump do its thing that first night. I got the stove going the next morning and when I checked the daily electric usage today, our usage was cut in half after getting the stove going and not using any sort of electric heat.
The stove heats pretty well when it's not real cold out when the surface temp is around 300+, but it's a beautiful thing when it's in the 450-600* range.
