If you buy a new woodstove...

If you buy a new wood stove do yourself a huge favor and run it in the yard before you bring it in the house, the paint and chemical fumes coming off the new stove are unbearable, had to leave the house for the first day and three days later it's still bad when the stove gets hot.

Good news is that it's 5 below zero, the front door is wide open and it's still not to cold in here

I thought everybody knew that!

I have had that lesson twice. But when its years between buying i forgot.

My newest one is 4 years old but it lives outside.

That's a plus.

same thing when ya put on new stove pipe best bet is to put it on a stove outside an burn off the paint first same thing for galvinized stove pipe that stuff is real nasty

I thought nobody was buying any new ones since the EPA forced some terrible design change that made them suck? I still have both of mine that are from the 70s...

I have no idea what the EPA did, this one seems okay. I tried to find a used one but I really wanted a glass door and couldn't find a large glass door stove. This is an epa approved stove whatever that means

Looks nice from the living room, no idea how to rotate the pic on my phone.

It does look nice.

looks just like my stove when I laying on the couch.

Its a wall stove!!!!!!

Here ya go , Donnersurvivor

Looks nice

looks good,

Also old wood stoves that have set out for a few years. I saved one knowing I would use it someday. Put in a log cabin we built and…the delicious aroma of mouse pee and poop was delightful for a few days.

Looks great. I have been heating with wood 23 years and with 4 burners over that time. I wonder how much money it has saved me over the years?

My first one i was 18 and renting an 820sq ft old house. It was old and drafty all electric. Way back then the electric bill was 320 a mounth in the winter. I do tree work so had piles of wood around. I was in rual king and bought a wonderwood wood burner, mat for the floor and black pipe and t.

I was very broke and saw one with a dint in the top. They knocked the price down $50 to $350. I did not put it in to code. I sat it in front of a window. Opened the windowput a piece of sheet metal with hole for the pipe to fit out ran the pipe up and out. Put some pipe strap around it to hold it up and called it good. The temps went down farther that month but my electric bill was $65 . That burner almost paied for its self in the first month. Onlu used thst one 2 years. Left it when i moved it was not holding up well.

When i moved the house i bought had a free standing fire place from the 70s. We used it a year or two but save some money and bought a vermont castings duch west. I think i paid around $1400 for the stove and few pieces of pipe. I sold my free standing fire place to a guy in the store at the same time for 400 so it equaled out to $1000 Wow talk about a diffrence i loved that stove for about 12 years but its burn time and wood use has gone up a bunch. My inlaqs live in that house now and still use it but its not the stove it once was.

We move to the farm into a 5 bed room drafty farm houst with 26 old windows. Lp cost would be 4 to 5 tanks a year and house would stay cold. So i bought a heatmaster c 375 outdoor wood/coal boiler. Paied about 13,000 installed. I figured in 4 years it would have paid for its self in lp cost savings. There was no good spot for an indoor stove that would heat the house well. It also heats our hot water saving between 2 or 300 in electric not running the water heater. No wood mess in the house, no ash, no bugs warming up and comming out of the wood, no smoke, NO FIRE hazard in the house and very limited splitting of wood . This is its 4th year and i love it. I can also heat a 2nd building with it if i build one.

Wood heat is the way to go for us. Man that stove looks nice. I do miss seeing the fire in the house. I guess i will have to go out to out 1830 log cabin for that enjoyment. Its got a 4' fire place on both ends.



What model stove did you get?



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I had to get a mobile home approved stove which narrowed down the options a bit. I went with this model https://www.usstove.com/product/vg3200-p/

It seems to be a good stove so far, ill have 2500 into it roughly with a proper chimney etc. Guessing it will save 1000 gallons of propane this winter which is 2 dollars a gallon. More importantly if the old furnace gives up the house won't freeze up. Outdoor stove would of been ideal but I bought a house this year with cash... funds are low.

If i remember right what makes stoves mobile home aproved is they get their air to burn with from outside i think. Or thats what I was told when shopping years ago.

That has a nice size fire box. 22" length is nice. That makes a big diffrence. I found i really like then with a cast grate in the bottom wher ash fall into an ash pan.

I did not know how nice that was tell we lived with my inlaws for 3 months in the winter waiting for closing on our first house. They also only had wood heat but you had to dig out the ashes that was not near as nice got your hands hot, house smoked, and air born ash to dust.

At that time I found out how nice indoor plumbing was also. Nothing like an outhouse in the winter.

If I had to do it again I think ide try and find one with a grate like you said. The air does have to be pulled from the outside with a mobile home stove... until it's inspected. The way these doors and windows leak I'm not worried about pulling air from in here.

Hey Donner, where did end up getting all of the chimney stuff ? I’ve been looking at Northline express, but they seem a little spendy.

My uncle runs a chimey business, he sourced everything but said he had to buy some parts from his competition or they wouldn't be here for weeks yet. He is having all sorts of trouble getting parts.

I have outside air ducted to the fireboxes on both the woodstove at home and the one at camp. I installed both of them myself because the stoves were pulling air through leaky windows and doors. The outside air kits have eliminated that problem. Why not leave yours installed after the inspection?

I assumed (maybe incorrectly) that it would frost up.

I have outside air ducted to mine also. Never had an issue with frost

I replaced our black pipe from the stove to the insulated chimney one year. The first fire set off the carbon monoxide detector. When the fire trucks showed up they checked everywhere you would think, cook stove, water heater, no CO. Finally they walked by the woodstove and the tester went crazy. The burning paint gave off CO. They had never seen that before.