Customer Reviews

CI STD Boxwood Stove

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This is a wonderful woodstove ... if you keep in mind that it is only $150.

I use one of these to heat my 1,250 square foot home. It works wonderfully.

The seams the other reviewer talks about breaking are not welded, they are caulked. And the manual says upfront that the seams will need to be re-caulked every so often. Same with the paint.

It is ugly, it does not fit together perfectly. But it really puts out the heat, and the price can't be beat.

I've been using this stove on occasion in my woodshop for two months now. All four corners around the firebox have already cracked. The thing would completely fall apart were it not for the four slender metal rods on each corner that are apparently the "back up" for the welding (or caulking, it seems. Yikes!).

One side is now white (couldn't handle the heat?)and the stove hasn't been subjected to anything out of the ordinary. I'll be looking for a new stove next winter.

What I like about this stove:

1) It will burn just about anything, even wet poplar.

2) It's not fussy about the chimney you put on it. Certified stoves can be very fussy.

3) It feels like it will last forever. There are no braided door seals to fall off, no delicate refractories to crumble, no catalyst to poison, no glass to break.

4) It's the right weight. It has a lot of thermal mass yet can be broken down and transported by one person. My EPA certified stove takes a Sikorsky Skycrane to move.

What I don't like:

1) Too much heat goes up the flue. It has nowhere near the efficiency of my Scan stove (but it cost only 1/20th as much).

2) The caulk they use to seal the stove stinks to high heaven on its first hot burn. Prepare to ventilate room or do your first burn outside.

All in all, I'm very happy with my Vogelzang BX26E. It's practically perfect for a rustic cabin in the mountains. And it reminds me of stoves I saw as a child, of which I have very fond memories.

I heat my uninsulated workshop with this stove. Good product for the money. I purchased the stove at a sale for 169.00 [new and in the crate]. Also bought a basic vertical flue kit. Unpacked and assembled quickly, installed the flue, and fired it up in less than 3 hours. Initial burns are stinky as mentioned by another reviewer. The stove casting on my unit is good; no smoke leaks or defective caulking. The casting is not very thick, hence the manageable weight of the stove (about 100#s). A heavier casting would make a better stove; but would cost considerably more. The stove will burn wood. If you learn the damper and sliding front door platform vent, you can control the burn very nicely. On my stove, damper 1/2 closed and platform vent open 1/16" will hold a 3 log burn for a couple of hours. I plan to install a second damper in the flue stack about 4 ft. up. This should give better control of the burn and greater heat dissipation. There ain't nothin' wrong with this stove, for the money. If it doesn't work for you, then you probably shouldn't be messin' with wood heat. There is an art to fireplace and wood stove operation.

I have the BX26E Vogelzang boxwood stove and it has already paid for itself in the savings over heating my home with electric heat (2 seasons). This will be my third year using the stove and it's all free now. That's including all the stove pipe and fittings for the installation. Be sure to use 22 gauge black stove pipe or double wall stove pipe on the outside. Till I learned to use and fire up the stove correctly, I would get the fire too hot too fast. It is an art using a wood stove correctly to get the most heat in the house and less up the chimney. The caulking on the corners has cracked but they are not leaking smoke. The proper caulking is availabel in a tube for a caulking gun and is not hard to apply. The back end of the stove has turned light grey where the paint has burned off, but I have black stove pipe paint to make it look new again. I put a small layer of clean, dry sand in the bottom of the stove instead of firebrick and I use a grate. This little stove puts out a lot of heat. I had my house 80 degrees when it was 26 outside. My home is just a little over 900 sq ft. and I have the stove on a closed in porch that opens to the house thru a 6 foot sliding glass door and one window. I put a clothes line on the porch and because the stove has two eyes, I cook, heat and dry clothes with one appliance. Hard to beat that. Just remember if you are not drying clothes when you are using your stove, keep a kettle of water on the top of the stove to put moisture back in the air because the stove will surely dry things out.

I've been using it for a few weeks and have been able to heat my 1350sq.ft. apartment to 70 degrees, even when it's 10-20 degrees outside. The room with the stove in it is in the high 70's and the adjacent rooms are at 70.

Since I don't have to buy the wood, I've significantly reduced my heating bills. Even if I did have to pay for the wood, the cost would be comparable my previous expense for gas, except for the my house is much warmer now.

This is an older style stove that does not qualify for the tax credit. It is not fully sealed. To de-bunk a previous review, smoke will come out of the seams when starting a fire if you don't generate a draft up the flue before starting a fire. It's not the stove's fault if you don't know how to use it.

I didn't give this stove five stars because: the sides do whiten with use a require repainting, the damper doesn't close completely, and there's a smell from the first few fires.

I got this stove for $180 locally and didn't have to pay shipping. It is well worth the money. If you want to spend more money and increase your heating efficiency, I would recommend a stove with a catalytic combustor to increase efficiency +10%, but mostly reduce emmissions -80%. These stove's cost 4-5 times as much and possibly much more.

I like that I can make pancakes and grilled cheese on the stove using a cast iron pan.

Keep in mind the other costs of buying a wood stove. I had to get heat shields $120 for the floor and walls, I recommend getting a grate for the bottom of the stove $25, stovepipe and a damper $25, and the stainless insulated chimney pipe $400+.

I'm replacing this stove next season with one slightly bigger, but would recommend this stove to heat a workshop, garage, cabin, or small apartment <1000sq.ft.

THIS IS NOT a fancy, high-end, super-efficient stove. It is a $149 (plus tax, with coupon) cast iron box stove. I use it in central Texas anytime outside temps drop below 60 degrees F. Our house is 2500 square feet, two stories and we can heat the whole house with just the stove down to around 25 degrees F, and then the furnace kicks on once in a while. It is in our living room on the hearth with a liner inside the brick chimney. With all doors open, we stay warm enough except for the furthest back bedroom, which is a spare and we pretty much leave the door shut at all times. If you have really dry wood or only small pieces, you must seal the gap on the bottom of the door with aluminum foil to slow down the air flow getting to the fire or it will overheat. I also have a VERY strong draft, even with the damper in the collar closed I have to "cock-open" the rear burner lid to allow some air into the box, to break some of the suction, or it will over-fire. I may at some point use a brazing rod to build up the areas where there are large gaps under and around the door for better fire control.

Vogelzang 96,000 BTU Cast Iron Boxwood Stove, Model# BX26E This is against Northern Tool, not the product. After comparing their web-site with Amazon's ad, I see why my order was cancelled. N.Tool's ad states item cannot be shipped to CA, but the Amazon ad does not state that. I checked all of N.Tool's wood stoves, and the same applies to those stove's not allowed to be shipped to CA & WA.

I recently purchased the Vogelzaang model bx26e.

I have to comment that having only used this stove twice I can safely safe this is the biggest piece of junk I have ever purchased.

The engineer must have been thinking this was for display only and not for burning anything. Some of the upper seams leak smoke. The fire door does not sit tightly against the frame and you can see flame on the other side. The damper collar almost sits outside of its recessed place and therefore leaks smoke the most.

Made in china

This stove will kill someone.