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Airtight woodstoves
#1 · September 27, 2001, 11:29 pm
Posted by: dhaley <dhaley@...>
We are installing a Vermont Castings because we got a good deal on it in TN
and moved it here with us to MN. It's taken us two years to install
it....ugh. Several of our neighbors own Lopi would stoves. All are
homesteaders (many know the Lilligrens from other lists they are on).
Lilligrens stove is awesome. It takes barely any wood to heat their 2400 sq
ft home. Here in MN the average wood use for a good cold winter is around
10 cords of wood. Lilligrens only used 3 cords and their house is so warm
they have to open the windows. I do like our Vermont Castings and we have
friends in several states that love them too. The Lopi is less expensive
than the Vermont Castings but is an awesome stove. One family in our church
had to take their Lopi back and buy a smaller stove. They could barely run
the Lopi because it ran them out of the house. From talking to others about
the stove we determined that these folks just didn't know how to damper the
stove down to balance the heat but it does go to show how well the stoves
heat.
and moved it here with us to MN. It's taken us two years to install
it....ugh. Several of our neighbors own Lopi would stoves. All are
homesteaders (many know the Lilligrens from other lists they are on).
Lilligrens stove is awesome. It takes barely any wood to heat their 2400 sq
ft home. Here in MN the average wood use for a good cold winter is around
10 cords of wood. Lilligrens only used 3 cords and their house is so warm
they have to open the windows. I do like our Vermont Castings and we have
friends in several states that love them too. The Lopi is less expensive
than the Vermont Castings but is an awesome stove. One family in our church
had to take their Lopi back and buy a smaller stove. They could barely run
the Lopi because it ran them out of the house. From talking to others about
the stove we determined that these folks just didn't know how to damper the
stove down to balance the heat but it does go to show how well the stoves
heat.
If you are looking for an airtight woodcookstove that will heat your home
and cook, I think it's hard to beat the Kitchen Queen and the Pioneer Maid.
My neighbor Nancy heats their entire mobile home very nicely during these
cold MN winters with the smaller of the Pioneer Maid stoves, the Baker's
Choice. 6 families in her church now own Baker's Choice and all are very,
very pleased. If you perhaps heard that the Baker's Choice stoves rust
through the bottoms, the folks that make them corrected that problem in
1999. You can also get those stove with a water jacket and water coil (it
didn't use to be available).
Deanna in MN