Has anyone had experience with Englander wood stoves? They are sttel stoves sold in stores such as Home Depot and Sutherland's....

-- Jennifer (oortiz@tstar.net), October 07, 2001

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Jennifer, Since you asked about experiance with these stoves and I have none, I will refer you to there web site which I just went out to see if they had one. They do. It's www.englanderstoves.com Hope they can answer any questions you may have.

since you just asked

Try going to www.englanderstoves.com Was just there and hopefully they can answer what ever questions you may have. Don't know wha

-- greg Reif (greg1@awesomenet.net), October 07, 2001.

Jennifer, Just checked my answer to you. Sorry about the last part, don't know what happened but it seems to happen some on this site.

-- greg (greg1@awesomenet.net), October 08, 2001.

Howdy from the southwest, Jennifer. I have a plain-vanilla Englander and it cranks. I did have the catalytic converter taken off because it seemed to return some of the smoke into the house. After that, no problem. Because I live in a double-wide, for insurance purposes I couldn't just buy any ol' wood stove, but had to have one "approved" for mobiles; so that cost me a bit more and I believe it was around $500. I don't use it for total heat, just to supplement when the nights are bitter cold, but it uses a relatively small amount of wood and once it gets going, burns pretty efficiently. I do have to keep the door cracked at first to get the fire really going... but that could just be me as I never was a boy scout. Hope this helps. A-dee- os. dh in nm

-- debra in nm (dhaden@nmtr.unm.edu), October 08, 2001.

I have the entry model Englander, sold at a discount because it was the display model. As Jenna said, I have to leave the door ajar for the first 10-15 minutes to get the bigger pieces of wood going. After that, pop more wood in periodically and it heats the family room quite comfortably.

My Englander uses more wood than my parents' expensive woodstove, but that's not an issue as I live on three acres of Ash, Locust, and % #*@& honeysuckle that I need to clear for pasture.

Mark

-- Mark Sykes (mark@marksykes.net), October 11, 2001.

I meant Debra, not Jenna.

Mark

-- Mark Sykes (mark@marksykes.net), October 11, 2001.

HI JENNIFER

I recently bought a house in northern Maine that has a Englander wood stove in the basement. I have been struggling for months to get it to work right. I have had many wood stoves in the past but never one with a catalitic converter. I have so far learned that the open closed lever on the side changes it from catalitic to regular wood stove.If it is out it bypasses the converter and you have a regular wood stove. There is a temp gage on the side that tells the internal temp. This gage must read at least 400 before you push the lever in to convert to catalitic,if less then 400 it will back up smoke thru the air vents ,which should be open about 1 turn. To decrease out put temp of the stove close them down a little. If you run the stove with the lever open you basiclly have a wood disposal, it will suck down wood as fast as you can pour it in. It takes some getting use to but it does work real well when you learn to control it. I also found that another reason for the fire going out and smoke backing down the chimney was my house was to air tight. I have to crack a window near the stove, especially when starting a fire and when feeding it.I am now thinking of running a small pipe thru the wall near the stove to introduce outside air so I don't sufacate myself. Hope this helps you out some. I could go on but I type with 2 fingers and this took 30 min. ha ha. Tom

-- Tom Sullivan (tsully@tds.net), December 08, 2001.

We put the Englander fire place insert in our house when we built ten years ago as a second heat source incase something ever happened to our gas well.

We have played with it some over the years, and have even turned off the gas stove to see if the fireplace insert would heat the entire house. (it will, with its blower running and the ceiling fans)

We, also, found that we needed to crack a window to get it started and also that it is a bit cantankerous about smoking into the house if it isn't drawing just right. Also have some "puff backs" in different kinds of weather. Ours has the catalytic converter (don't know if that is a plus or a minus.) Ours cost $900 at Quality Farm and Fleet in 1991. It has a glass door where you can watch the fire (a big plus to us), but we have to scrape the glass almost every day because it blackens from the fire.

We have replaced the door gasket once. (not to difficult) and scoot it out every couple years to check the chimney for creosote build up. (have had some.)

The old Suburban wood stoves that we had in the old house, before we got our gas well were not as cantankerous.

-- homestead2 (homestead@localnetplus.com), December 08, 2001.

Hi Jennifer:

I have an OLD model Englander Stove! I LOVE IT! It is very efficient at burning wood. Once you get it going and you throw in wet wood or even green woods, it will even burn it as well. I have gone 7 days without electricity and this stove has helped keep me going out on the farm. I'd highly recommend them and they have been around for a long time. They are highly durable and long lasting. The brick lining is greate and they have a great website that you can even download the brick layouts if you need to. You won't go wrong!

-- R. Lerner (elembytes@yahoo.com), February 07, 2002.