Regency vs. Napoleon, who's the winner

[benjhind]

I clean my stove once or twice a week and I think I'd fill the ash drawer twice each time if I actually used it. A friend of mine with the same stove told me to avoid it before I got mine, but it was included as part of the sale at the time so I got it anyways. Maybe your Napoleon has a bigger drawer?

I hear you on the mess though!

[jaycee]

I was told there are two versions of the Broil King, the ones sold in the big box stores are the cheap ones that don't last long. We got ours from TA appliance about 12 years ago, had to change the cast grills, were shipped directly from the warehouse around London, ON.

In 40 years, we are only on our second BBQ also a Broil king, our second was purchased in April of 2007, I just replaced the burners and flavour wave heat shield 2 weeks ago, The cast Iron porcelain grates I replaced last year.
Not bad for a BBQ that is 1/2 the price of a Napolean., but it isn't as fancy and shiny as a Napolean, which our neighbor has and is replacing his burners every other year.

This however has side tracked the original post, sorry about that.

TA Appliance, has a store /parts warehouse in Kitchener, Victoria St. all parts are readily available. Also in Brantford On.

[seabast]

Correct, I'm in need for a new wood stove, not BBQ. Weber all the way!

Napoleon is 10 minutes from home so it would make it easy for sure but I'm not too worry about it. I never had a broken stove so far.

What I'd like is one that burn well at low draft and produce lots of heat when needed and feed with some proper wood.

Thanks

[73hunter]

Growing up, we heated with wood only because the house had an electric furnace - and we weren’t millionaires. We would only need to clean the ashes out of our stove 3 or 4 times per season, usually during a warm spell. Good friend of mine installed a Regency in his house and I was very surprised when he told me how frequently he had to clean his ashes out. Our old stove did not have the afterburner pollution control stuff that the new stoves do and I wonder if that was the difference. We always burned good quality seasoned hardwood too, maybe good hot fires produced less ash.

[jaycee]

We heat mainly with wood, in an air tight wood stove, it's a " Conestoga model 1826 " , step stove design by Elmira Stove Works.
The draft control is the two wheels of the wagon and the system works well.
It is very efficient, the ashes that I take out once a month are very fine just like cigarette ash's . this is an indication of the efficiency , total burn of the wood.
We can cook on it. as it has the two different levels in the step design , does not require any hydro and we have had it now for 39 years.
It was one of the few back then that had a ULC approval.

[js4fn]

You ever look at drolet stoves come out of Quebec
Heat mainly with wood my stove is
7 years old and looks like new
Drolet.ca