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Originally Posted by Slickcraft
Our previous stove was an Enviro Empress:
http://enviro.com/products/catalogue...d=EMPRESS-1-FS
Nice looking and efficient. It is a top feed stove with pellets falling into a burn pot. That means that the stove has to be shut down and cleaned frequently, at height of heating season once a day. It has been moved down to the basement for use only on two stove nights.
The Harm an is a bottom feed with the burn area being a ramp. Ash gets pushed off the end of the ramp and falls into a large ash pan. I can go 15 to 22 bags of pellets between shutdown and cleaning. Once a day I open the door while still burning and use the provided tool to do a quick scrape of the ramp. About a 1 min task done while adding pellets.
I would look for a bottom feed stove with a large ash pan, no doubt there are options other than Harman. Look for a display of a operating stove and ask about how it works and how often you have to shutdown to clean. |
You won't find us HarmAn owners recommending another brand. It's a true "you get what you pay for" story. There are not many, if any, stoves that can run 24 hours 7 days a week for a couple of weeks without any maintenance other than putting a bag of pellets in.....