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

  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.

The ceramic blanket stuffed in the top was bunched up so the stove couldn't breath. Took the stove apart to lay the blanket flat. Took the stove apart a second time to take it out and now it barely breaths. With the blanket in, the fire just smoldered; no actual flame until after the door stayed open for minutes.The air supply is very inadequate and not adjustable. Smoke billows from the box when the door opens. Unsuitable for any "living space" use. May be OK for a tent, detached garage or detached shop. The stove breathes so poorly the top does not get hot enough to heat a fry pan. It will heat water for coffee. As an experiment I set the stove outside with only two lengths of flu just to verify it wasn't an installation problem. Nope... still doesn't breath even with "straight pipe" for a chimney. Wood was dry cedar split to ~2" thick wedges. I've left the stove outside. I'll make a smoker out of it.

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'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!!

It showed up broken! Third one in a row!!!!

STOVE IS WORTHLESS AND WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. I have spent up to $100 EXTRA dollars in different methods in trying to get this to work. I WAS a novice in wood stove-drafting-fire-starting-SMOKE CLEARING of a house till i got this stove. I went so far as to pull the stove off of the pipe 90ing out the house so that there was a single section of 3 ft pipe on the stove. I started a fire and little to no SMOKE CAME out of the top and ALL came back inside my house. I have tapped all the resources and knowledge you can about this. NO THE PIPE IS NOT CLOGGED__DRAFTING? i hooked a fan up to it to create a vacuum to PULL and TO PUSH - shortened the stack ---to lengthen the stack--- nothing is blocking the wind----wind isn't pushing it back in the house--- THE STOVE IS JUST GARBAGE. I have done everything possible.

Perfect! Used it in my kitchen. Could of used it in the living room as well

Directions for assembly are very poorly written. Illustrations are so faint as to be unreadable.