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Central Boiler vs Greenwood/Seton
Posted: 13 August 2008 12:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]
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Chase - I’m looking into these units in NJ also and would like to compare notes.

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Posted: 13 August 2008 03:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]
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MY GW100 will be operating two year come January. This summer we are running it a lot for DHW. Just my opinion, but GW’s servce sucks. The unit itself seems fine, except that the refractory cracks - probably from thermal shock - too easily.

Depending on whether I have to buy wood this year, my payback should be about April 2010. Would I buy another? Maybe. But not until I was positive that the Vitolig200 was unavailable.

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Posted: 13 August 2008 09:16 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]
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I have a Seton 100 on line for one season. I have no refractory cracking issues. My unit, though, was not put together very well and leaks at a lot of the seams. I will need to seal it up somehow. But overall, I am impressed with unit. It has a lot of potential. The best feature is the whole logs that it burns. Not splitting and stacking means a lot less work.

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Seton 100. No storage.

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