The stove outputs a lot of heat burning dry pine wood (low energy output) and keeps living room and kitchen warm overnight in freezing temperatures. I put 6 logs in at 10 pm and at 8am living room, laundry room and corridor leading to the bedrooms is warm

The stove outputs a lot of heat burning dry pine wood (low energy output) and keeps living room and kitchen warm overnight in freezing temperatures. I put 6 logs in at 10 pm and at 8am living room, laundry room and corridor leading to the bedrooms is warm. I use 3 electric oil filled radiator heaters in 3 bedrooms set to the lowest setting. I highly recommend this model as it can take large wood pieces. I live by Yosemite and due to a drought we had 25 pines die on our lot and we have like 4 cords of wood still. Compared to a wood burning fireplace in my other house wood burns 3 times longer in Drolet and outputs literally 10 times more heat. I put 2 20cm propeller diameter heat powered fans on top of it and heat reaches 3 bedrooms as the blowers deliver the heat to the corridor where the bedrooms are. I demolished and threw away propane fireplace that looked good but practically gave no heat and only overheating wooden shelf above, and having exhaust pipe on the wall it dirtied all wall with sud and smoke. It took me 1 day to remove demolish it, 1 week to build 10cm hearth platform out of wood. I put particle boards with screws on it and then tiles. I hired a helper to put rock on the walls of the corner where the stove is. It took (95kg) and a friend (120kg) to move the stove without effort from the garage to the hearth. We used 2x4 wood pieces to slide it up from garage to the laundry room. Next put it on double folded rug and slid it to the hearth- then used 2x4s again. Remove all you can like door and bricks for the move and you'll move under 400lb of weight of the stove. This stove is a great idea as we loose power frequently due to irrational California government mismanagement, so at least now I'm more independent. I save at least $1000 on propane a year now. If you do a project like this (remove gas fireplace and install Drolet) on your own it will cost you about $2500 for materials and garbage disposal in US. I hired chimney installers and worked with a helper so my expenses were $4500 total with all accessories like fans, bucket, tile saw, mortar, wood, tools, etc. With 71% efficiency I think you produce energy cleaner than your energy company does. I also planted 7 new trees and they all are doing well and doubling in height now... Don't wait. Do this. It's work to clean stove glass and haul ash out and water it to put ambers out, and also vacuuming the hearth from what falls off the wood you store by stove, but if things really go south you'll always find free wood, and considering I pay propane company at least $2000 every year, I practically cut my propane bill in half and took out 1 source where gas can possibly leak now. I like looking at the fire especially on the low air intake setting when the flames are moving very slowly. The benefits of this stove are a plenty, and having warm living room from freezing in 30 minutes is priceless- gas heater needs 2 hours for that to happen...