I understand, but my stove isn't burning nearly as hot as it's capable of and the surface temp is at 400*. I'm not touching that. My stove is about 500 lbs, and if you've got one of those that's 1500+, I could see it not ever getting that hot, but I don't see how a 200* surface temp provides enough heat to warm the air anywhere other than than the room it's in. I intend to heat the entire house with my stove. I don't have an internal thermometer other than flue probe, and that's usually between 600-800*.
Oh, this thing CRANKS, trust me. It has these top vents that let the air out. The pictures don't really show that. The soapstone is 1380 lbs, and the insert is 250lbs. The stone flattens the curve out of the heat cycle if that makes any sense, and it radiates the heat after much longer. It provides radiant heat as well as convection heat.
This is from their site:
Our soapstone wood stove benefits include:
1. Soapstone woods stoves provide the most comfortable radiant heat. Conventional wood stoves, made from steel and /or cast iron, sometimes lined with thin soapstone tiles, will not provide the heat a real soapstone stove will; instead they will heat by convection, which literally means burning the air and creating a very uncomfortable heat which creates dry skin, runny noses, etc.
2. Our stoves provide even and consistent heat over a longer period of time when compared to conventional wood stoves. The soapstone stove works like a battery, you burn wood for 3 hours, the energy is stored in the thick soapstone slabs then evenly distributed over a period of about 20 hours(depending on house insulation) after the fire is out. The wood burns in the firebox, then it travels up and down through the inner channels of the stove, heating the outside stones and storing the energy.
3. The soapstone does not overheat because the material is 2 3/8" thick and is actually touchable.
4. Unlike other heaters that use thinner soapstone inside the firebox, all our heaters are manufactured with 60mm(2 3/8") thick soapstone inside and outside, improving the heat storage and capacity of the unit.
5. Our Warme24 heaters, are environment friendly because of the additional two secondary air flows to our firebox, un-ignited gases are burnt before exiting.
