Wood & Pellet Stove Buying Guides
Coal Stove vs Wood Stove: Where Coal Still Wins...
Anthracite beats firewood on energy density and unattended burn time. Whether that matters to you comes down almost entirely to where you live.
Wood Stove for a Shed, Barn or Pole Building
Three outbuildings, three different problems: most sheds fall below the rated minimum, pole buildings need sizing by volume not floor area, and a barn storing hay may not be a...
Wood Stove in a Basement: What Actually Determi...
A basement gives you the longest chimney run in the house and the most competition for combustion air. What to sort out before installing, and an honest account of how...
Wood Stove for a Cabin: How to Size and Choose One
A cabin stove has to take a freezing building and make it liveable fast, usually without power. Why recovery beats efficiency here, how to size for cabin construction, and what...
Wood Stove for a Tiny House: Sizing, Clearances...
Compact stoves are rated from 250 sq ft, not from zero — which splits the tiny house range in two. The clearance shield that makes a full-size stove fit, and...
Mobile Home Wood & Pellet Stoves: What Approval...
Mobile home stove installs have their own rules. For wood stoves: double wall pipe, a fresh air intake, no fire screen and a separate set of clearances. For pellet stoves:...
Wood Stove for a Garage or Shop: How to Size an...
Garages and shops need more stove than their square footage suggests, and different code and insurance checks than a house. Sizing by space, real clearance numbers, and how a certified...
Kodiak Wood Stoves: Which One You Actually Have
Three unrelated appliances share the Kodiak name: the coal-burning Alaska Stove original, Enviro's newly launched Kodiak 1200 and 1700, and a tent stove line. How to tell them apart and...
Sierra Wood Stoves: The Virginia Originals and ...
The Virginia-built Sierra Hearthstove and the current Carson City lineup share a name and nothing else. How to tell which you have, where legacy rebuild kits are still available, and...
Avalon Wood Stoves: Models, Parts and Modern Re...
Travis Industries retired the Avalon brand. How to identify your model from the tag number, the dealer territory rule that makes parts hard to get, what one is worth, and...
Timberline Wood Stoves: Models, Clearances and ...
Timberline was founded in 1977 by a fabricator who lost his Fisher license. How to identify each model, the clearance problem on unlisted stoves, what one is worth, and what...
DAKA Wood Furnace vs Drolet: Simplicity vs Cert...
DAKA builds simple, coal-capable wood furnaces in Pine City, Minnesota with a bi-metallic damper and no electronics. How the 521FB and 622FBT compare to the EPA-certified Drolet Heat Commander II.
Fire Chief Wood Furnace vs Drolet: Read the BTU...
Fire Chief's FC1000E advertises 198,000 BTU peak while the larger-firebox model it replaced was rated at 130,000. What that means, and how it compares to the Drolet Heat Commander II.
All Nighter Wood Stoves: The Moe Line, Parts an...
All Nighter's Moe stoves came out of Glastonbury, Connecticut in the late 1970s. What each model heats, what parts you can still find, what one is worth, and what replaces...
Vermont Castings Vigilant and Resolute: Parts, ...
The Vigilant, Resolute and original Defiant are fifty years old and still running. Why their cemented seams eventually fail, what parts you can still get, what one is worth, and...
Heat Without a Chimney: Ventless Gas vs a Pelle...
Vent-free propane and natural gas heaters get bought for one reason: no chimney. But a pellet stove doesn't need a chimney either — just a 3-inch hole in a wall....
Ventless vs Vented Gas Logs: Neither One Is a H...
Vented gas logs look real and send nearly all their heat up the flue. Ventless logs heat the room and put the combustion byproducts in it. If you want your...
Are Ventless Gas Fireplaces Safe? What the Code...
Vent-free gas appliances put every combustion byproduct into the room you're sitting in. What the ODS actually does, the moisture math, where they're banned, and what to install instead.
Nashua Wood Stoves: What They Heat, What They'r...
Nashua's NFP wood and NC coal stoves were rated in cubic feet and haven't been built since the early 1980s. What each one heats, what they're worth, and what replaces...
Country Stoves: The Lennox Country Collection, ...
Country Stoves became the Lennox Country Collection in 2006 and is now discontinued. Which models still have parts, which don't, and the modern replacement for each.
Dutchwest Wood Stoves: Discontinued, and What R...
The Dutchwest 2460, 2461 and 2462 cast-iron catalytic stoves are out of production. Where the brand went, which parts are still available, and what replaces each size.
Earth Stove: Where the Brand Went, and What Rep...
Earth Stove made both wood and pellet stoves before Lennox bought the brand. Where it went, why parts are still findable, and the modern equivalent for the wood and pellet...
Wiseway Pellet Stove Review: Non-Electric Heat,...
The Wiseway GW1949 burns pellets with no electricity at all. What it does genuinely well, what owners complain about, and how it compares to a wood stove for outage-proof heat.
Whitfield Pellet Stoves: Models, History and Wh...
Whitfield became a Lennox brand in 1998 and is no longer made. Parts are still available — here's the model list, where the brand went, and the modern equivalent for...