DDSS Indoor Wood-Burning Heating Stove, Thickened Cast Iron Rural Heating Stove, Smokeless Cooker, Energy Power Saving.

Tiny small. Only the small belly is cast iron rest is ordinary metal. Whole thing bends easily. Fire compartment is far too small to put logs; only small amounts of kindling. Shockingly pathetic. Unbelievable. Unfit for inside home. Returned.

Man, this product is definitely you get what you paid for first year Welding students could do a better job showed up full of soot. It was delivered a month late not happy with this product at all. Don’t wanna start a fire in it unless it’s outside I really don’t trust it.

I really like this stove. It is a high quality product at a reasonable price. It came in two shipments from China to the United States. The first package contained three exhaust pipes measuring four inches in diameter by 39 ½ inches long. I have requested three new pipes as the ones I got were damaged.What happened? Instead of returning the stove and pipes, which I can only assume the shipping charge would be enormous, what happened was after I sent pictures of the pipes, I was given a discount. Everyone is happy.The second package includes: The stove it does stand by itself. I plan on using some unique foam on the floor, 16 inches clearance all around, then to layer some fired bricks for the stove to sit on. It came with the three tools listed. There is a circle plate with a hole in the center to be placed inside on top of the belly. The flat surface, comes with two metal rings, and another circle plate again with a hole in it. All of these came in high quality skilled labor. Think of a original Star Trek episode where Captain Kirk fires a phaser at rocks to heat them up to give off heat to warm up a cave. That is exactly what this stove does. Put product inside the belly, light it. Put it together for the stove to give off 360o heat.It was over 85o outside. I took it out in the backyard, put about a half a pound of wood pellets, put one of the two elbows on top tube that is attached to the stove. I lit it with a butane torch. It was very hot, there is an air vent on the side, to close off the air circulation. I was working twenty feet away for me to feel the heat from the exhaust.Wow. I found a video on YouTube to vent the pipe through the outside brick wall instead of venting through the chimney. I learned my lesson with the old boiler. I own a brick house with a double wall. The inside wall and chimneys, are not fired. The outside wall the bricks are fired and glazed. Heat will loosen the mortar for it to fall to the bottom. The new boiler vents out the lentil on top of the casement windows. Venting directly to the outside will prevent this to ever happen.Important formula to remember, this stove can burn coal, charcoal or wood pellets or anything else. Important formula to remember, if it takes an hour to burn a half pound of wood pellets, it takes an hour to burn one, two or three pounds of wood pellets.The shaker works wonderfully, though I had to cut some screen as the open slots for the ash to drop are too big for the wood pellets. The screen is destroyed only after one burn. Too thin. I will try using metal scissors to cut strips from a sheet of metal I have on the side yard. Once ash has built up, use the thongs or the other tool to pick up the cold sheets for the ash to drop into the pan and dispose of them accordingly.All in all, thankfully, I am in the camp for us on Mother Earth to have a global economy. I have observed lots of items of high quality being sold in the United States with the label made in China.My mom’s statement she made to me in the sixties, Mark, one day China is not going to be agreeable (for some people to go to China, ask them to make cheap items and then to sell them here in the United States). This blew me away one day, I was in a Kuhn’s a grocery store for me to buy some fresh loose garlic. Grown in China. China rocks! *smile*I have no loyalty to products produced/grown here in the United States.

Did not like anything about the stove.

I wish I had ordered the slightly larger stove. This tiny stove is heating my entire house. 1,000 square feet! I love this little thing. Be careful to use leather gloves when using it. It’s like a pizza oven. You touch it! It will burn your skin quickly. I have cooked several meals with it. The best soup beans ever!!and it perks coffee great!

More china junk not worth the money

I bought a different wood stove (US STOVE brand). Unlike this stove, US Stove posted the square footage their stove would heat. Also, anyone who views the photos for this pot belly stove after reading how great the welding job is and then buys the stove, well, you deserve to get ripped off and Amazon should not have to foot the shipping cost for a return.

Lots of heat and great for a cast iron skillet.