Built by hand in Prince Albert, SK · Find a Dealer
Quality & Innovation Since 1972

Heat that holds
through the season.

Outdoor wood, coal, and stoker boilers, hand-built in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Robotic welders, laser-cut steel, and a design that lasts thirty years — with every part replaceable.

50+
Years of Continuous Manufacturing
11
Models · Wood, Coal, Stoker, Pellet
1M+
BTU/hr · Residential to Industrial
SK
Hand-Built in Prince Albert, Canada
The Lineup · Six Sizes

One engineered standard.

From the compact BL2534 for residential loads to the ML42 industrial flagship at over a million BTU per hour — every model shares the same heat-exchanger geometry, the same hand welds, the same replaceable parts.

Ultimizer BL2534
Ultimizer Wood
BL2534
Output
200,000 BTU/hr
Coverage
up to 4,000 sq ft
Firebox
25 × 34 in
Fuel
Cordwood
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Ultimizer BL2840
Ultimizer Wood
BL2840
Output
300,000 BTU/hr
Coverage
up to 6,500 sq ft
Firebox
28 × 40 in
Fuel
Cordwood
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Ultimizer BL3444
Ultimizer Wood
BL3444
Output
400,000 BTU/hr
Coverage
up to 9,000 sq ft
Firebox
34 × 44 in
Fuel
Cordwood
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Ultimizer BL4044
Ultimizer Coal
BL4044
Output
500,000 BTU/hr
Coverage
up to 14,000 sq ft
Firebox
40 × 44 in
Fuel
Coal & Cordwood
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Stoker ML30
The Stoker
ML30
Output
600,000 BTU/hr
Coverage
up to 20,000 sq ft
Auto-Feed
Yes
Fuel
Coal, Pellet
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Stoker ML42
The Stoker
ML42
Output
1,000,000+ BTU/hr
Coverage
Industrial
Auto-Feed
Yes
Fuel
Coal, Pellet
View specs
Why Portage & Main

Three reasons our boilers outlive the rest.

i.

Built to last thirty years.

Our oldest unit still in continuous use was installed in 1995 and has heated every winter since. Robotic welds, laser-cut firebox plate, and forced air-jacket cooling on every joint — we engineer for decades, not seasons.

ii.

Every part replaceable.

Doors, gaskets, refractory, heat exchanger, grates — every component is a service part you can swap in the field. If a competitor’s firebox cracks, you buy a new boiler. If ours wears, you order a panel.

iii.

EPA-rated clean burn.

Our gasification models meet EPA Phase 2 emissions and burn 30–50% less wood than legacy outdoor stoves. Customers report 12–14 hour burn cycles on a single load — and 90 gallons of propane backup in a year instead of 800.

The Ultimizer Principle

Combustion lives or dies on three legs.

Every fire on earth needs three things in balance: oxygen, fuel, and heat. Most outdoor boilers starve one leg to make the others easier — and you pay the price in smoke, creosote, and wasted cord. The Ultimizer engineers all three. That’s why it burns cleaner, longer, and on less wood than the boiler it replaces.

  • Oxygen. Forced-air injection above and below the fire bed, metered to combustion temperature — not guessed at by a draft damper.
  • Fuel. A deep, narrow firebox stages cordwood for staged gasification — the volatile gases burn a second time on the way out.
  • Heat. Insulated refractory holds combustion at 1,800°F+ — the temperature where wood smoke becomes BTU instead of pollution.
Read the technical paper
The Exploded View
Cutaway view of a Portage & Main boiler showing every replaceable component
Built to be Serviced

Thirty winters from now, you’ll still have parts.

A boiler is not a sealed appliance. It’s a workshop you keep running.

Every door, gasket, refractory brick, heat exchanger panel, fire grate, and ash pan in a Portage & Main boiler is a service part. We stock them. Our dealers stock them. You can rebuild a 1995 ML30 today with parts off the shelf — and we’ve done it.

That’s the difference between an outdoor boiler and a disposable furnace. You don’t replace it. You maintain it.

Browse the parts catalog
From the People Who Load It Every Winter

Owners, in their own words.

This unit has been in continuous use every winter since 1995 and has functioned flawlessly and very efficiently. Thirty years on and still going.
David Fountain · ML30 owner · since 1995
Twelve to fourteen hours between loads — wow. Cut my wood by a third.
Dylan · BL3444, Manitoba
Ninety gallons of propane in a year. My neighbor used eight hundred.
Troy Dahlgren · BL2840, Northern BC
Let’s Talk

Get a quote, in your climate.

Tell us about your space and we’ll point you to the right model — or hand you off to a local dealer who can quote installation. No salesy follow-up. Just an honest read on what fits.

Toll-Free, 8 to 5 CST 1-800-561-0700
Heat Smart Plus Inc.
Highway 11 North · Prince Albert, SK
Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central

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