HI Jake, I have the QuadraFire 1200i. It's going on its 5th year and has been a fine stove. We have it hooked up to a digital thermostat so it sets back at night, yet is warm and cheery when we wake up. Neither stove will thoroughly heat your house in your climate if the house is not tightly insulated with good windows. If it is really cold outside and blowing hard, then it is likely that your furnace may come on while the pellet stove is running. But the furnace will shut off much more quickly than if it was trying to heat the house alone. Chimney height is not an issue, the exhaust is presurized and will need it's own 3" pipe inside of the existing stack. The Quad and the Harmon are both good stoves. I think the Quad is easier for maintenance, but I don't think you would go wrong either way. If you're having trouble buying locally, consider buying from a NW dealer and have it shipped. They're made in WA so I would expect freight to be approx $400.

Rob, have you tried the pan release goo most of us decorators use? There's no recipe, really. It's basically, equal parts flour, shortening, and just a squirt of a neutral oil to make the mixture easier to brush onto a pan. Btw, for me, greasing a pan, depends on the type of cake I'm baking. It's not a one-size-fits-all. Pans for angel food, chiffon, and sponge-type cakes, should never be greased, or the batter will not have anything to 'hold on to,' and cakes will not rise to their full volume. However, most other cakes get the lube treatment (If Jessica were reading this, she'd go blind). And when I do grease a pan, I only grease the bottoms, lightly. Then, I line the bottom with a round of parchment, leaving the sides alone. Once the cake is out of the oven, I run a thin, metal spatula around the sides of the pan to loosen, and let the cake cool in its pan for 5 to 10 minutes. Then, I put a piece of parchment on top of cake to cover, flip the pan over onto a cooling rack, remove pan and allow cake to cool completely. The parchment on the wire rack is there to keep cake from sticking to it, plus it makes it easier to transfer to your serving platter later. Some bakeries use food-grade plastic wrap (instead of parchment) for this purpose, wrapping the cakes (while still hot) to retain moisture. Assuming I'm going to store a cake for more than a few days, I'll wait until cake has completely cooled, before wrapping it in plastic wrap. Then, I'll add a layer of foil, before storing it in the fridge or freezer. If you're planning on icing the cake the same day it was baked, ignore the previous rant. Sol

"Can I use Miracle grow on them by diluting it in water and then watering it into the soil?" Yes " I had some house plants before and I use it and it gradually killed it. What is the reason?" It wasn't the fertilizer that killed the plants unless it was misused and/or simply acted as a contributor to another issue that was severely limiting by it's own lack of merit. Nutritional issues often act in concert with poor soils and over-watering to force the plant to deal with limitations the plant is not genetically programmed to tolerate, which produces stress levels so severe the plant's systems just start to wobble like an out of balance top until they simply cannot function as designed. Fertilizers with 3:1:2 ratios are good for houseplants because they furnish nutrients in the ratio at which the plants actually USE the nutrients. This allows you to keep fertility as low as possible w/o having to deal with deficiencies, which is a big plus for several reasons. Miracle-Grow comes in many RATIOS. 30-10-10 is a 3:1:1 ratio. 24-8-16 and 12-4-8 are both 3:1:2 ratios and 20-20-20 is a 1:1:1 ratio. If I had to choose a MG product as my "go to" fertilizer for almost everything I grow, I'd probably make it the liquid 12-4-8 mixture because of how easy the liquid is to use, compared to the granular. If my choices were broadened so as to include Dyna-Gro's Foliage-Pro 9-3-6, I'd definitely opt for the 9-3-6, another 3:1:2 ratio fertilizer. I like it because of its ratio, because it has all nutrients essential to normal growth (note that your MG lacks Ca, Mg (secondary macronutrients) and several micro-nutrients. FP 9-3-6 also gets most of its N from nitrate sources, which helps keep plants from getting leggy and coarse under low light (indoor) conditions, an important consideration for houseplants. Growing well is a rather holistic venture that must be looked at in its entirety. In most cases, a grower's growing experience comes apart at the seams because the grower finds himself unable to keep the plant's root system healthy and functioning normally. My experience has been that if you focus on keeping roots happy and succeed, the rest suddenly becomes remarkably easier. Let me know if you want to chase that thought a bit to see if what I said makes good sense. Al

I have moved 12" and 24" tall Sabals with a fair degree of success. It was explained to me that all sabals will kill off damaged roots all the way to the base of the plant and this is why so many transplants fail. If the plant isn't big enough to hold enough water on its own, it will dry out and die. So to get a transplant to take, you need to keep the soil around the 'bulb' moist, but not wet. The bulb can take a few days of dry weather, but it is better to water at least every other day until you see growth, but only water the soil. Naturally, there isn't much you can do about rain, but the drier you can keep the above-ground bit, the more likely it won't rot before it has had a chance to establish new roots.