US Stove 1269E Small EPA Certified Cast Iron Logwood Stove, 54,000 BTUs

The media could not be loaded.    This is a poorly designed wood stove in that the top of the door is too close to the top of the fire box. As it is there is no way within normal use to avoid smoke coming out of the top of the door. The United States Stove Company doesn't help matters by taking up so much space in their user guide and installation manuals trying to explain away the smoke as anything and everything other than poor design.If you have already purchased this stove as I have, there is hope, however. I modified the door opening with a metal flap that allows me to open the door and leave it open while using the full size of the opening for loading fuel without getting a room full of smoke. Take a look at the video to see what I'm talking about. This simple fix has allowed me to rate this stove at a 2 because I am now quite happy with it in my cabin.Afterthoughts...1) My stove also arrived on a smashed up pallet and box. Fortunately, the stove was not broken. It is way too heavy for the packaging they use.2) I have also removed the ceramic insulative blanket from above the baffle.3) I spent last night at my cabin and it was in the teens outside and well below freezing inside the cabin when I arrived after dark. I find until the stove warms up it still had a tendency to smoke a little at the beginning when the door is opened. Once it warmed up I left the door wide open as the fire roared to let more heat out into the room in a hurry.

This was the 2nd stove we received. 1st one was busted when we received it. 2nd stove looked exactly like tge 1st one. Same parts busted. Returned it and cancelled order.

I have had this stove stores for a few months since purchase. It has been well kept and held in its original packaging. Serran wrapped and still on the wood pallet it had been shipped on. As the it is getting colder know, and waiting to get some remaking things in place for the stove. I finally in packaged it yesterday. Hoping this would be an easy deal hooking up. My thought was the hardest part would be the chimney side of the installation. Upon opening the stove and revealing it for the first time. I noticed something didn’t seem right. All the parts seem to be there, but the hardware wasn’t anything close to what was needed to put the stove together. As I read through the instruction I also noticed the stove. The stove according to the drawing should’ve already had the front and back stove pieces assembled prior to it being shipped. I figured this had not been done also for I noticed. I noticed the four main threaded rodpieces. The rod pieces sit on the outside four corners that sandwich the top/bottom pieces together and hold everything in. Two of the four rod pieces are to short and will not reach the holes. Making it impossible to thread the bolt onto. This explaining why the front and back pieces to the stove were never in place. I verified this by pulling all four rods out and sizing them side to side. The were significantly shorter by 1/8 in. or more. This is the bases for assembly but seems the pre-assembly wasn’t done right because of faulty parts. Also somehow one door hung pin was missing also. I’m very disappointed for I plan on using this for heat throughout the winter, but creates another set back. I took my time shopping around prior and this one seemed mostly along the lines of what I needed and was looking for. I just wished I had opened it up sooner. This is the downside to online orders. You never know what the product actually is like until you see it first hand. I extremely regret this purchase and now am wishing I’d just gone direct. Shipping this thing back is going to be hard enough and chances are I will only get a percentage on my return. Think twice before you buy this stove.

I've had this stove for one complete winter now and I live in Northern New Mexico, in the Rocky Mountains, in a 1300sq ft home and use this as a my primary source of heat with my furnace as my backup source. This was one of the worst winters that we've had in several years here so this little stove really got a work out. In January we had 8 feet of snow & it started snowing on Thanksgiving day and we still have snow on the ground. We had nights as cold as negative 30 but this little stove could keep the house at 90 degrees if I stoked it up. The only problem with it is that it doesn't damper down enough. The way that the door is made, there is no way to damper completely down, so it goes through a little more wood then I would like but I have found that once I have a hot fire in it to switch my wood over to hard woods then close the damper down. That seems to help a lot. I've considered putting a second damper in the pipe, maybe that would help the problem. But other then that it has been a great stove!!

Overall the stove is well built and NOW works great. Most important cure this thing (first fire)outside or open all your windows. There is a lot of burn off from the coating. First take the top off and remove the insulation blanket with gloves....toss it. You will find an iron plate that the blanket was resting on take that out. What I did with mine was cut it so there is about 8 inches in the rear under the flue. You need that piece there to prevent flames going up your pipe. I also drilled to quarter inch holes directly in the 8 inch piece to help with draw. I removed the damper and installed a new damper 12 inches up from the stove top with a 24 inch long pipe and spark arrester. Works like a charm.