Bought a new wood furnace last year in Oct. I fired it up out side the first time as I had hears story's of others who waited then had a house full of smoke and fumes.
It is a England 28-3500 ad on for what ever the main furnace is, ours is electric forced air.
I have not turned on the electric furnace in so long I don't know if it will even work any longer.
This England replaces a Southern Aire furnace that was in the house when we bought it nearly 30 years ago.
The old furnace had got a hole in the fire chamber and I didn't feel like fooling with it welding it up or patching.
The England is sold here thru wood burning device dealers, Their a joke as They wanted me to pay for shipping from the factory and that was to their store not my house. Lowes sells it as a summer heat name model, Home depot sells it as the England model. Thru Lowes and Home Depot you can get a 10% veterans discount if you hold the right type of ID. Lowes also wanted me to pay shipping to the store and it was more than Home Depot to my home.
As you can see there was a lot of smoke that rolled out of it. I burnt it full open for about 6 hours to make sure the stuff got burnt off. I then shut it down to burn all night. It burnt so long shut down I had to wait for an extra day to let it cool to move it in the house and hook it up.
I was burning about 12-14 face cords (18x4'x8') of fire wood a season with the old southern model in a normal winter. I only burnt 9 face cord last winter and we set all kinds of record cold days as well as the3 winter seemed to hang on when spring came.
Only ran the blower a couple of times when I got to fooling around and let the fire burn real low and the house cool off.
Al
