Kimberly® Stove Reviews

Extreme cold testing complete. Not only passed, but passed loud & proud! This is actual temp inside during a 50 below windchill event, -34 actual at moment of picture, my electric bill for January…18… Feb is $15!

~ Steve B. in North Dakota

We have been running our wonderful Kimberly for about three weeks now and are so totally in love with her. We are burning the Idaho Energy Logs (compressed logs) and we get a huge burn time and lots of heat from the Kimberly with them, we have also burned cedar and hickory and spruce just to see how it would do. It has been keeping our house toasty warm day and night. I love not having to turn on the forced air furnace as it is costly, noisy and creates a lot of dust. When I am in bed at night its so quiet it took time to get used to cause the forced air made so much noise and the Kimberly once in a while might pop or crackle but that is it. I can see the stove from my bedroom while I am laying in bed and love to see the warm orange glow of the fire at night.

Kimberly has kept our house toasty warm and its been down to 21 degrees the coldest so far, but we have a large house and so far so good, we have not even had to run it on high unless we are first starting a fire from a cold stove. We are thinking on getting the Katydid too and using Katydid in the house and moving the Kimberly to the garage as at this time we also have a oil stove in the garage to heat it. I cannot even tell you how much fuel oil we have saved already using Kimberly and the fire is so nice and warm and dry. If you do have a video of Kimberly inside and out we would love to see it. And thank you for everything, we are satisfied customers. And the peace of mind having the Kimberly to keep us warm and to cook on if the grid goes down is very important to us. Kimberly does a wonderful job for us and made us happy happy happy!

~ Karen G. in Alaska

In 2014, my wife and I built a 952 sq. ft. log cabin in Alaska, with the idea of having a back-up heat that didn’t take up very much space. Well, when I found the Kimberly wood stove, we knew that’s what we wanted. It has now been one year, and I have to say that we mostly use this stove as our primary heat source; even at temperatures below zero, this little stove conquers the elements. When you get the draft just right, this little stove really puts out some heat. Anything above 20 degrees, we prefer not to let the secondary burn kick in due to it getting too warm in our home.

A special thanks to Unforgettable Fire, LLC dealers for the most outstanding customer service available. Any question or concern I’ve ever brought to their attention was taken very seriously and promptly. This company really cares about their product and the people that invest in them.

~ From Kevin & Valerie in Alaska

I wanted to write you about the Kimberly Stove I purchased from you last February.  Being new to wood burning I was not really sure what to expect, nor how to install it. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy the installation was, and even more impressed by your knowledge of this product when it came to troubleshooting, when the chimney system was not working properly.

To be quite honest, I had some moments of worry when I fired up the stove for the first time with all my buddies, and my wife present. As you know it was hard to get going, and at first put out very little heat, sort of embarrassing, even my wife was asking why I had spent the money for this unit. However one phone call to you, and the simple fix you suggested brought the stoves performance directly to what you had said it would do.

You may remember that I was using a very inefficient propane heater which was very expensive to run in my man cave, the Kimberly runs forever on a small amount of fuel, and belts out the heat. I also took notice of the dry heat compared to propane, I could not imagine how much moisture would accumulate on a boat with the propane, but the Kimberly dries out the air quite nicely, important in our wet and cold winters here in Seattle.

Thank you once again for your excellent product and customer support, that also is uncommon in today’s business world.

~ Tracy F. in Washington

When we were looking for a wood stove to put in our tiny cabin on wheels, we did a LOT of research. We looked at models from all over the world, but just kept coming back to the Kimberly. The small clearance distances were very appealing to us as we were placing the stove into a room that is less than 8 feet wide. Not to mention that the stove is a beautiful addition to our cabin. It keeps our 200 sq ft mighty toasty, even on a sub-zero night in the Wisconsin north woods. We were also really happy to purchase a product designed and manufactured in the USA.

Really, meeting with Vanessa at a trade show is what really sealed the deal for us. She’s warm and friendly and is committed to keeping her customers happy. Vanessa and Roger (the inventor of the stove) were available before, during, and after the install to answer any questions we had – even when we were wondering if we were starting the fire correctly, even on New Year’s Day! How many products have customer support provided by the inventor himself? Not many. Both Roger and Vanessa keep in contact with us to be sure that we are happy with the product.

~From Erin K. in Wisconsin

I’ve been using my Kimberly wood stove every winter since I moved in, and I’ll be honest in saying it hasn’t been an easy road to loving it as I do now. A very large part of the problem (maybe all of it) was that I bought any-old-pellet-stove-pipe locally rather than the brand that Unforgettable Fire recommended, and it turns out that it’s not sealed as well as it needs to be for the stove to burn super efficiently.

The dealer from whom I bought the stove, Vanessa, has gone over the top in helping me troubleshoot via detailed emails, phone calls, and even a trip to Wisconsin to spend a long afternoon doing everything she could to “upgrade” the seals on the stove itself (mine was an earlier iteration) and check my installation (with live phone advice from Roger, the stove’s inventor and CEO of Unforgettable Fire). She also convinced me that I needed to replace the chimney pipe, which I did in 2018, and the stove worked like a champ last winter.

I’ve also learned to use compressed sawdust logs when I want a long overnight burn, and with that I can wake up to coals 8 hours after I fed the stove before bed. Plus, it’s still so damn charming, especially with my custom metal hearth pad…

– From Tracy G. in Wisconsin

I’ve been able to analyze my situation in terms of the heat capacity and costs of operating the Kimberly™ stove. I’ve had a chance to use the stove all day, about 12 to 15 hours/day for 3 days now. I don’t attend the stove from about 10pm to about 7am. I can say that the house can stay @ 70F all day that I use the stove. The outside temperatures have been between 37F to 40F, the winds varying from 0mph up to 30mph. My house area is about 1300ft2. Today, I’ve had the upstairs open, which adds another 300ft2. So my situation substantiates your claims.

When lighting the fire for the first time, I’ve developed, what I think is a great technique. I set a bed of pellets a little below the door. I then put a firestarter so that it sits against the grate and is partially submerged in the pellets. I place the brick (or log) so that it sits on the pellets and on the starter so there is a little air gap between the pellets and the brick. The pellets start to burn real quickly (probably because there is a lot of air between them). I’ve got a good fire in less than 5 min. I only use the pellets to get a fire going. It causes too many complications to try to heat with them.

I’ve been tracking my propane usage. It works out to 2.9 gals per day of propane for the month of January vs about 10 bricks/day at a cost of $0.50/brick. A gallon of propane costs about $2.50/gal, depending when you buy. Comparing costs:

Propane – $2.50/gal x 2.9 gal/day=$7.25/dayKimberly – $0.50/brick x 9 brick/day =$4.50/day (based on 2.75hrs/brick/x 24hrs. A brick weighs 3.5lbs so presto logs would result in 31.5lbs/day)

So you get a 38% cost savings with Kimberly over natural gas or propane, based on my analysis. You just can’t keep a good engineer down. Our home is fairly well insulated for it’s 11 years old.

~ From Guy G. in Kentucky

Truly appreciate your commitment to this international transaction. I think you have been a Star and realize you are not making any profit considering the time and dedication you have put into all the admin.

~ Mark L. in Scotland