pinetreesgreen

pinetreesgreen t1_ixk8il8 wrote

I think you will be very pleased with it. Harmons are top of the line. As others wrote, if you want it to evenly heat the entire house with just the stove, second floor included, you might need to get a little fan at the bottom of the stairs to blow the hot air upwards, or open the floors up with some vents to the upper floors. We like to sleep cold, so the second floor being 66 while the bottom floor is 72 doesn't bug us so we don't bother with either. Have a toasty winter!

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pinetreesgreen t1_ixg7fj0 wrote

We have a harmon 63 and love, love, love it. We had a Quadra fire insert for years, but we had to replace just about every part over the past 6 years (it was an old stove when it came with our newish house, might not be typical), got tired of dealing with it and bought this one last year when they were offering tax credits. Its like night and day. It basically heats our whole 2200 sqfoot cape house. Our house is pretty well insulted, this might not be typical. We have learned over the years to pay for the good pellets like "wood and sons". Cheap pellets seemed to gum up our old quadrafire for whatever reason, and you get much less ash with the good stuff, seems to burn longer per bag, too. Good luck on the new home!

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