What wood stove to go with?

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Between the two places to buy them and the price range I am looking at it is limited to three brands: Lopi, Lennox, and Kuma. Any body have any opinions on any of these?

I'll post later about the models (still running around town). It is in my tenants house, and it is 500-600 square feet.

I don't remember if any of the were catalytic or not, but have something in the back of my head saying that would be bad in a rental (more stuff to go wrong with improper operation).

Thanks for any advice or opinions
 
A wood stove in a rental :eek: If you do go for it, make sure that you have it professionally installed.

Have you checked pellet stoves, which are cleaner and perhaps a little safer?
 
I have a buddy who is a contractor who is going to install it.

Power goes out often enough that I am not interested in a pellet stove. I also don't plan on renting it to someone who does not have experience with woodstoves. It is not that uncommon for rentals to have wood stoves around here.

Thahanks for the response though
 
Not familiar with any of the brands you listed, but my first choice is a top loader, followed by an end loader. Front loading stoves are a poor design to me, open the door to load more wood in and live coals come tumbling out... Hearth.com is the
bladeforums of wood stoves.
 
Arrgh, just spent ten minutes typing a long response explaining what I got and why and it was erased after I received a phone call.

Went with a Lopi, although thhere is still a small chance I might change my mind to the Kuma. Main differnce is front loding vs end loading.

Thank you for the response, I will check out that forum
 
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Umm, no. I am just replacing the existing stove. I would not expect it to make a difference
 
Went with a Lopi. It is sweet (anything would have been better than old one though). Much smaller than the old one but it uses half to a third the wood of the old one. Heats the place really well. It came with a fan mounted in the back so it circulates the air.

It was a Republic 1250 in a 600 square foot house.

I will update this later once it has been burned more than six hours and let you know whether it lasts through the night. They say it lasts up to eight hours, but I don't believe much of the stats provided by a company
 
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