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This too shall pass.
We needed to get a wood stove installed in the house. I HAVE a Vermont Castings Aspen (the smallest stove they make) sitting down in the barn, but it's so heavy that when it was sitting in the back of my pickup, I couldn't even slide it over, let alone lift it to bring it up to the house. So, I got a tent stove, and it's way better than I expected. It's not installed yet -- I messed up and only ordered one stove pipe with a bend, and I need two, so I've got to get that. But it's here, it's well made, sturdy, well-fitted, and the firebox is bigger than I realized -- bigger than the firebox on an old wood cookstove. This is what I got: https://www.amazon.com/Winnerwell-W...SVW,B08VD8KRBK,B0792SFPDS&srpt=PORTABLE_STOVE
I debated getting a much less expensive stove (this one was about $400), but this thing should last the rest of my life and then some. And, if we ever move, it will be easy to uninstall it and take it with us.
You aren't 'supposed' to use a tent stove in a house, but this house is better ventilated than most tents (holes through the walls and gaps around windows and doors that you can see daylight through, and the back door won't quite close all the way, so there's a half-inch gap up the whole latch side of the door, and that's not even including the holes in the floor where the plumbing goes through -- one of those is big enough for cats to go through it). So I'm not even remotely worried about ventilation. We've got plenty of that. I'll stack bricks around and under the stove, except for the front and the top, so I can reduce the clearances a bit. And we already have a stove pad to put under it. The only thing I wish was different is that there isn't room to install a few firebricks on the bottom of the thing, but I may cake some clay in there and see how long that will last (need something to help protect the bottom from burning out eventually). My dad used to put a few inches of sand in the bottom of our barrel stoves (and dump it out when we weren't using the stoves in the summer, because it would get moist and cause the stove to rust). But I don't think sand will work in this -- it would get pulled out with the ashes. Anyway, I think it will work for us, hopefully for a long time to come.
Kathleen
I debated getting a much less expensive stove (this one was about $400), but this thing should last the rest of my life and then some. And, if we ever move, it will be easy to uninstall it and take it with us.
You aren't 'supposed' to use a tent stove in a house, but this house is better ventilated than most tents (holes through the walls and gaps around windows and doors that you can see daylight through, and the back door won't quite close all the way, so there's a half-inch gap up the whole latch side of the door, and that's not even including the holes in the floor where the plumbing goes through -- one of those is big enough for cats to go through it). So I'm not even remotely worried about ventilation. We've got plenty of that. I'll stack bricks around and under the stove, except for the front and the top, so I can reduce the clearances a bit. And we already have a stove pad to put under it. The only thing I wish was different is that there isn't room to install a few firebricks on the bottom of the thing, but I may cake some clay in there and see how long that will last (need something to help protect the bottom from burning out eventually). My dad used to put a few inches of sand in the bottom of our barrel stoves (and dump it out when we weren't using the stoves in the summer, because it would get moist and cause the stove to rust). But I don't think sand will work in this -- it would get pulled out with the ashes. Anyway, I think it will work for us, hopefully for a long time to come.
Kathleen