wood stoves

[8N Ren]

I guess the vermont castings dealer has too much cash and doesn't want mine cause they didn't get back to me with a quote after a week's wait.
We looked at Blaze King and neither one of us like the looks of it although the seem to be well made. I'm leaning towards the PE T5 that thing seems like quality.

The Boss likes the Enerzone solution 2.9
Anyone here use an Enerzone? They are made by SBI here in Canada

 

[Scooby074]

I looked at an Enerzone 3.4. A thread I created on another site might help your decision making?? PE Summit vs. Alderlea T6 vs. Enerzone 3.4 vs. Jotul F600 FL vs. Jotul Carrabassett | Hearth.com Forums Home

It has a great reputation. Talked to the dealer, said it was the best bang for the buck. Not nearly as nice looking as the Alderleas though/

 

[8N Ren]

I looked at an Enerzone 3.4. A thread I created on another site might help your decision making?? PE Summit vs. Alderlea T6 vs. Enerzone 3.4 vs. Jotul F600 FL vs. Jotul Carrabassett | Hearth.com Forums Home

It has a great reputation. Talked to the dealer, said it was the best bang for the buck. Not nearly as nice looking as the Alderleas though/

No it isn't as nice, thanks for the link Scoob I'll go have a looksee.

 

[clemsonfor]

i pais $900 for mine used, new its about $2200, it heats my 2000sqft home

 

[clemsonfor]

many dont have a house as tight or well insulated as you eddie! i have to push my stove harder in sc than some in the north due tolack of insulation

 

[8N Ren]

The wife and I took a trip to the city today, up until that point she was sold on the Enerzone Solution 2.9 . Then she laid eyes on the Pacific Energy Alderlea T5. Within 2 minutes she was sold on it. Compared to the Enerzone well there's not really a comparison. Better steel, cast iron, hardware, door gasket and we have our choice of 7-8 colors in a porcelain enamel finish. Just looking at it you can see right away where the extra money is going. Scooby you were correct my friend. We just have to decide on color, or go with the plain cast steel. The dimensions are perfect for the area where it will be placed.

Does anyone have experience with a colored stove?
I have a feeling that it won't be a problem seeing as they have a lifetime warranty on the unit.

 

[MotorSeven]

The Pacific is a great stove and the porcelain is tough....just be extremely careful when moving since that is where most chips occur. The other thing porcelain does not like(neither do owners) is an overfire where temps get up over 1,000 degrees. Of course that is also hard on all the other past of a stove, but it does happen from time to and it's always operator error. Mine just went postal last month to 1200 degrees because I had not checked my door gaskets in a year...both front and side door gaskets were shot.

I always wanted a porcelain one so it might happen some day........

 

[Scooby074]

8n
As MotorSeven mentioned the porcelain needs to be watched when moving the stove, after that, it is quite tough in normal usage. I dont have a porcelain stove (Alderlea T6 is only available in black) but a very good friend has an enamel Summit. Not a chip in it! I wish I could have gotten a T6 in enamel, i tried but its N/A, not only is it arguably better looking, its way easier to keep clean. The texture in the paint of the T6 is a dust magnet! Literally, dust will stick to the texture like a magnet. Hard to clean. But I needed the T6 for its size so I had no choice.

All the Alderleas are good lookers so I know what your wife was saying, mine was the same, lol, but she was "disappointed" in the lack of "pretty" enamel.

No real comparison between the Enerzone and the Alderlea. The Enerzone is what Id call a "premium" economy stove, good heaters, well built basic steel construction (compare it to a low end, like my old Napo 1450 and the improvements are obvious). The Summits and Alderleas are a full premium stove both in output and fit and finish. There really is a difference. Youre not making a mistake with a PE stove.

 

[westcliffe01]

The PE stoves are made by Canadians with "real" winters where it could really be a life or death situation if you lost your source of heat. I think you cannot go wrong with a PE stove. One item more to watch with a porcelain stove is getting water marks if you put a pot of water on it to boil (which you will need to do, trust me). Often it is impossible to remove water marks.

I would suggest not getting porcelain. It is easy to touch up the finish with black stove paint and you probably have 5 months a year to do it before the stove is back in service.

Final item, regardless of what your stove installer tells you, you DO want to install a stovepipe damper as high above the stove as you can reasonably reach. Any non catalytic EPA 2 stove WILL run away when the temperature is -10F outside and you load it up with a fresh load of dry wood. Closing the air intake will not be able to prevent the flue temperature from holding at 1000+F until the volatile phase of combustion is over. The stoves simply cannot pass the EPA test with a minimum height chimney and outdoor temperatures of 40-80F which is how they are tested, without having such a generous air intake when fully closed. The stovepipe damper is very useful under such circumstances as it reduces the chimney draft to a sane level allowing the stove to work as intended. This is a chimney / winter environment issue and you WILL need the stovepipe damper to control it. I had this issue on 2 different stoves so I finally wised up. It is a huge inconvenience to do this in the middle of winter with a chimney that is no longer squeaky clean after you have exhausted all the other options.

 

[8N Ren]

Scooby thanks for the comments about the color finish. I'm not too worried about scratching when moving it in, that will be the installers department, I don't have the urge to move a stove lol.

Westcliffe thanks for the comments about the pipe damper and yes no one knows cold like us Canadians!

And thanks to everyone who participated with this endeavor.

P.S.
Westcliffe with the water marks on a porcelain finish, Vim or Lime Away works well.