Great video and information! We have heated our home (exclusively) in northern Utah with a Blaze King woodstove for the last 18 years. We have a furnace but haven't used it in all that time and we currently use a Blaze King, King 40 woodstove. Our home is 2 story at 2200 square feet. We cut our on firewood from public land, burn apprx 6.5 cords of pine from mid Oct thru mid May and our costs for heating our home annually is around $300. During waking hours the house temps are 72 to 77 degrees downstairs (hotter upstairs) and when we wake in the morning the temp is usually no less than 67 degrees in January. We load our stove full of wood around 9 pm and get 12 to 18 hrs of burn time depending on time of year. So we only have to load our woodstove twice a day. The main negatives are: more dust in house from burning and our house gets a little messy from bringing in firewood which is stored outside. Love our BK woodburner!!!
I used a wood stove in my 1960’s vintage , 1600sf ranch home. Although it held a large payload of wood, it also sucked air OUT of the house whenever lit. Why? Because there was no reasonable provision for supplying air to the combustion process. As a result, the stove “drafted” interior, heated air into the firebox and then, ultimately, right up the chimney. No amount of judicious damper adjustment could alter that equation. Unless “intake” air can be sourced from OUTSIDE the structure, a wood stove acted like a log-powered exhaust fan that indiscriminately sucks large volumes of heated air out I n order to create an airflow in the firebox. This inescapable situation is almost never talked about by stove manufacturers who, instead, blather on about the size of their fireboxes, appealing appearance and other irrelevant points. However, I believe in giving ppl credit where it is due. In this Blaze King video the topic of “air intake” is mentioned…for about 10 seconds at 6:30. AND the company’s solution is to sell you an optional “fresh air intake kit”. This issue is a critical failure in 99% of all wood stoves. Beware… Merry Christmas! Ya filthy animals!
This is only an issue in very tightly sealed homes, such as a manufactured home (which is why outside air kits are required in manufactured homes). Most homes have enough air leakage that it's not an issue. The fact that you are saying that the stove "sucks heated air" indicates that the stove is heating the air in the home, so it's doing it's job, but a fire requires air to burn. That air has to come from somewhere. Some folks choose to leave a window cracked slightly, but the outside air kit is a very cost effective solution if this is an issue in your home, or if you just prefer that combustion air come from outside.
4-7 hours ? I just ran my 1979 blaze king bought by my father new the other day for 23 hours on less than 3/4 load of wood. The stove it replaced , a Fisher papa bear routinely got from 8 '15 hours depending of weather. Both stoves maintain very consistent, even heat throughout my homes. After 46 years of doing this I've learned a bit. I've also messed with more stoves than most will ever think about. Catalytic stoves may be OK in certain situations and for certain people buy they are NOT the be all end all . I burn 24/7 all season and have for all the years mentioned with the last 25 atleast being my sole source of heat. While I agree on blaze king you can keep your catatalytic in my honest opinion.
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Our Catalytic converter is fine BUT the gasket has disintegrated - Does anyone know what the material is so that we can replace it quickly - it is early winter here and rather cold without the fire on?
It will deliver around 15,000 Btu's, depending on your install and the wood you use. This is enough energy to keep a mid sized home at a reasonable temperature when it is delivered constantly and evenly like a Blaze King does.
The thermometer has an active zone. The active zone starts at 550 degrees f. As long as the thermometer stays in the active zone the stove is giving out heat.
Depending on the model. The run time on low can be from 20 to 40 hours. This when the stove is in a low fire setting. A normal heating time is between 12 hours and 22hours when the stove is in a medium heat setting.
@@blazeking9819 I understand. Owned a BlazeKing now for a while and have not been happy. My dealer stopped responding and the next closest says I’m too far. Not really sure what to do at this point… I guess I’ll live with it… didn’t have these issues with my Quad’s is all. Thanks for responding.
@@3wrapframe Sorry to hear this. we pride ourselves that we make a very good reliable product and are always there to help when someone is not happy. Can you fill out the contact form on our web site. This will give me your contact details. Reference this UA-cam conversation and I will see it. Hopefully we can get you some assistance.
@@blazeking9819 chatted a ton with Francisco already and that dried up too. Unfortunately his suggestions went unheard from the dealer. I see they installed different from Blazekings recommendations as well that were mentioned in this video. Lots going on here.
I've been using a Blaze King for 13 years now. At first I did not like the stove at all, but once I realized that I could not burn the same wood as my previous wood stoves I've come to love it. Most creosote issues come from moisture, I would suggest burning a load of dry 2x4s to confirm your meter is working properly. Burn on highest setting for 20 minutes after by-pass is closed then set thermostat to a level that the flames go out and your fire just smolders. Your temperature gauge should spike and the convertor should start to glow. Hopefully, there will be less creosote and this will confirm your issue is your wood source. good luck.
We have had a Princess since 2004. Love this stove. We honestly tell folks it is the best thing we ever bought! We burn exclusively pine aged about a year. Sometimes we burn wood cut in the spring and burned in the fall in the same year. I couldn't tell you the moisture content, I've never checked it. We clean the chimney once a year and get a couple cups of flaky soot. Tarry creosote has not been an issue at all. I would suggest that you make sure the fire is good and hot before turning it down. After adding wood, we generally make sure that the needle on the catalyst thermometer is at least at 3 o'clock (visualizing the thermometer as a clock face) before turning it down. Then we turn it down about 25%, wait another 10 minutes or so, and then turn it to half (or a little lower if we are going to bed or leaving for the day). Our burns are around 12-14 hours. We have replaced the catalyst once since 2004. It wasn't even dirty, but had a few cracks and burn times were getting a little shorter. Other than that we don't even worry about it. I don't look at it, clean it or do anything with it. I empty ash at the end of the burn season, and burn constantly from early November through around April First. It is our only heat source that we use. We go through about 3 cords of wood a year give or take. One last thing. Our chimney is 14 feet, straight up, double walled pipe. Any bends in your pipe, or not enough pipe, or nearby objects (such as the peak of your roof, trees etc.) could affect draft, as could single walled pipe that may be cooling too quickly.
The most valuable portion of the vid is at 6:45. It devotes (s) about 1:00 to a crucial topic: air supply to firebox. Spoiler Alert: without a dedicated supply pipe which channels outside air to your stove, you are simply using already-heated interior air to power your combustion and create a huge current of air from every leak in the home’s “envelope”…right up your chimney. Been there…done that.
I burn pine, usually 6 months to a year old. I start my fire in early November and it doesn't normally go out until early April. I'm guessing about 3 cords, give or take (my guy doesn't deal in cords, he deals in "loads", and I don't stack it..he just dumps it in the yard) I empty the ash at the end of the season. I couldn't empty ash during the burn season if I wanted. The fire doesn't go out. Burned properly this stove burns down to a very fine ash. There's maybe three or four inches of ash on the bottom when I empty it in the spring. I have had my Princess since 2004.
My 44-45 year old Vermont Casting vigilant has the bimetal thermostat on the secondary burn and it controls the heat extremely well and smooth.
Great video and information! We have heated our home (exclusively) in northern Utah with a Blaze King woodstove for the last 18 years. We have a furnace but haven't used it in all that time and we currently use a Blaze King, King 40 woodstove. Our home is 2 story at 2200 square feet. We cut our on firewood from public land, burn apprx 6.5 cords of pine from mid Oct thru mid May and our costs for heating our home annually is around $300. During waking hours the house temps are 72 to 77 degrees downstairs (hotter upstairs) and when we wake in the morning the temp is usually no less than 67 degrees in January. We load our stove full of wood around 9 pm and get 12 to 18 hrs of burn time depending on time of year. So we only have to load our woodstove twice a day. The main negatives are: more dust in house from burning and our house gets a little messy from bringing in firewood which is stored outside. Love our BK woodburner!!!
Love our scirocco. 6 years burning from October to mid-may.
I used a wood stove in my 1960’s vintage , 1600sf ranch home. Although it held a large payload of wood, it also sucked air OUT of the house whenever lit.
Why?
Because there was no reasonable provision for supplying air to the combustion process. As a result, the stove “drafted” interior, heated air into the firebox and then, ultimately, right up the chimney.
No amount of judicious damper adjustment could alter that equation. Unless “intake” air can be sourced from OUTSIDE the structure, a wood stove acted like a log-powered exhaust fan that indiscriminately sucks large volumes of heated air out I n order to create an airflow in the firebox.
This inescapable situation is almost never talked about by stove manufacturers who, instead, blather on about the size of their fireboxes, appealing appearance and other irrelevant points.
However, I believe in giving ppl credit where it is due. In this Blaze King video the topic of “air intake” is mentioned…for about 10 seconds at 6:30. AND the company’s solution is to sell you an optional “fresh air intake kit”.
This issue is a critical failure in 99% of all wood stoves. Beware…
Merry Christmas! Ya filthy animals!
This is only an issue in very tightly sealed homes, such as a manufactured home (which is why outside air kits are required in manufactured homes). Most homes have enough air leakage that it's not an issue. The fact that you are saying that the stove "sucks heated air" indicates that the stove is heating the air in the home, so it's doing it's job, but a fire requires air to burn. That air has to come from somewhere. Some folks choose to leave a window cracked slightly, but the outside air kit is a very cost effective solution if this is an issue in your home, or if you just prefer that combustion air come from outside.
We just leave our front door ever so slightly cracked
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4-7 hours ? I just ran my 1979 blaze king bought by my father new the other day for 23 hours on less than 3/4 load of wood. The stove it replaced , a Fisher papa bear routinely got from 8 '15 hours depending of weather. Both stoves maintain very consistent, even heat throughout my homes. After 46 years of doing this I've learned a bit. I've also messed with more stoves than most will ever think about. Catalytic stoves may be OK in certain situations and for certain people buy they are NOT the be all end all . I burn 24/7 all season and have for all the years mentioned with the last 25 atleast being my sole source of heat. While I agree on blaze king you can keep your catatalytic in my honest opinion.
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been googling for some hours. Even here in Norway with extreme lots of water electricity AND lots of oil the crazy green politics + crazy politicians ,- we ( ordinary people ) are into energy problems with extreme prices.
And here I am starting thinking out of the box and I might / think I have an idea so easy its laugable how to solve the energy problem as long as we have wood.
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How do you clean the pipe? Can you buy one of those logs that you burn that cleans it for you?
I didn't have any dollar bills after purchasing the stove. Could not check the seal.
This is America. Make more money.
Never use money to check the gasket. Use plain paper about the size of a dollar bill. First time I used a dollar. I pulled on it and it tore in half!
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i was born in 1944 in vermont and we burned wood there and now live in virginia but interested in your stove
Our Catalytic converter is fine BUT the gasket has disintegrated - Does anyone know what the material is so that we can replace it quickly - it is early winter here and rather cold without the fire on?
What kind of BTU'S does the King Ultra or 40 produce on a low setting? And the cost of replacing the combustor when it's time for replacing.
It will deliver around 15,000 Btu's, depending on your install and the wood you use. This is enough energy to keep a mid sized home at a reasonable temperature when it is delivered constantly and evenly like a Blaze King does.
Sure the wood burns for a while but show us how long the stove surface temps stay hot.
The thermometer has an active zone. The active zone starts at 550 degrees f. As long as the thermometer stays in the active zone the stove is giving out heat.
Depending on the model. The run time on low can be from 20 to 40 hours. This when the stove is in a low fire setting. A normal heating time is between 12 hours and 22hours when the stove is in a medium heat setting.
@@alanmurphy2176 isn't the thermometer more of a probe that sits down inside the stove top?
@@kmb957 the surface temperature stays above 550 degrees for 20 to 40 hours.
@@alanmurphy2176 I find that very hard to believe since anthracite coal puts out far more BTU and cant do that.
Nothing burns like a Quadrafire.
They make good stoves for sure. But then, here we are on the Blaze King site.
@@blazeking9819 I understand. Owned a BlazeKing now for a while and have not been happy. My dealer stopped responding and the next closest says I’m too far. Not really sure what to do at this point… I guess I’ll live with it… didn’t have these issues with my Quad’s is all. Thanks for responding.
@@3wrapframe Sorry to hear this. we pride ourselves that we make a very good reliable product and are always there to help when someone is not happy. Can you fill out the contact form on our web site. This will give me your contact details. Reference this UA-cam conversation and I will see it. Hopefully we can get you some assistance.
@@blazeking9819 chatted a ton with Francisco already and that dried up too. Unfortunately his suggestions went unheard from the dealer. I see they installed different from Blazekings recommendations as well that were mentioned in this video. Lots going on here.
@@3wrapframe Again sorry top hear this.
Our BK Princess creosotes up so much. Our wood is 10% moisture, well seasoned, vented well for 30 mins + after loading. Really unhappy. Any advise?
Check that exhaust chimney is well insulated. As exhaust cools down, creosote forms.
Clean the converter with crappy wood I mite do it once a week in my progress hybrid. I have two converters one in stove one out ready n clean ..
I've been using a Blaze King for 13 years now. At first I did not like the stove at all, but once I realized that I could not burn the same wood as my previous wood stoves I've come to love it. Most creosote issues come from moisture, I would suggest burning a load of dry 2x4s to confirm your meter is working properly. Burn on highest setting for 20 minutes after by-pass is closed then set thermostat to a level that the flames go out and your fire just smolders. Your temperature gauge should spike and the convertor should start to glow. Hopefully, there will be less creosote and this will confirm your issue is your wood source. good luck.
We have had a Princess since 2004. Love this stove. We honestly tell folks it is the best thing we ever bought! We burn exclusively pine aged about a year. Sometimes we burn wood cut in the spring and burned in the fall in the same year. I couldn't tell you the moisture content, I've never checked it. We clean the chimney once a year and get a couple cups of flaky soot. Tarry creosote has not been an issue at all. I would suggest that you make sure the fire is good and hot before turning it down. After adding wood, we generally make sure that the needle on the catalyst thermometer is at least at 3 o'clock (visualizing the thermometer as a clock face) before turning it down. Then we turn it down about 25%, wait another 10 minutes or so, and then turn it to half (or a little lower if we are going to bed or leaving for the day). Our burns are around 12-14 hours. We have replaced the catalyst once since 2004. It wasn't even dirty, but had a few cracks and burn times were getting a little shorter. Other than that we don't even worry about it. I don't look at it, clean it or do anything with it. I empty ash at the end of the burn season, and burn constantly from early November through around April First. It is our only heat source that we use. We go through about 3 cords of wood a year give or take. One last thing. Our chimney is 14 feet, straight up, double walled pipe. Any bends in your pipe, or not enough pipe, or nearby objects (such as the peak of your roof, trees etc.) could affect draft, as could single walled pipe that may be cooling too quickly.
We live on a farm , can you burn manure in this model or will it clog combustor?
donald dietrich only cord wood
These stoves are approaching $5k in cost! Stove and chimney pipe will cost as much or more! Wood heat is getting expensive!
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All you were doing was comparing not showing how to use
This just did not help me at all
Try this video ua-cam.com/video/HdKW12uwszs/v-deo.html
The most valuable portion of the vid is at 6:45. It devotes (s) about 1:00 to a crucial topic: air supply to firebox. Spoiler Alert: without a dedicated supply pipe which channels outside air to your stove, you are simply using already-heated interior air to power your combustion and create a huge current of air from every leak in the home’s “envelope”…right up your chimney.
Been there…done that.
BS!! There is no damn way in hell, you can burn a cord of wood in that stove before having to remove the ashes!!
Especially with cottonwood that we use!
I burn pine, usually 6 months to a year old. I start my fire in early November and it doesn't normally go out until early April. I'm guessing about 3 cords, give or take (my guy doesn't deal in cords, he deals in "loads", and I don't stack it..he just dumps it in the yard) I empty the ash at the end of the season. I couldn't empty ash during the burn season if I wanted. The fire doesn't go out. Burned properly this stove burns down to a very fine ash. There's maybe three or four inches of ash on the bottom when I empty it in the spring. I have had my Princess since 2004.
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