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We heartily recommend using a Tulikivi if you can afford it. We remodeled a house and put one in: [HYPERLINK@www.virginiaradiant.com] . Ten years ago they were much cheaper, but it is a great source of heat. It is quite different from a normal wood stove. You don't feed it all day. You burn it an hour once a day and the mass of soapstone absorbs the heat and radiates it all day. The stone is still very warm 24 hours later. They even have units with bake ovens in them.
We bought a Hearthstone soapstone stove last summer, their Phoenix model, and used it through the winter to heat our 1850sq.ft house in Southern Maine. It worked very well, and often kept coals live enough long enough that I could rekindle a fire easily when getting home from work after being gone for ten hours. I compared this to my neighbor's Jotul of the same size, and a big difference is that this stove does not blast you out of the room, but releases its heat in a more even fashion. Highly recommended and I would buy again.
