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Review of Avalon:Travis Industries --- Olympic -- Freestanding Stove burning Wood only
Installation Type: Wood/Coal - Freestanding into metal Chimney
Date Reviewed: January 23rd, 2010

Satisfaction Ratings from 1 (best) to 5 (worst)

Satisfaction with unit=1-very satisfied
Satisfaction with dealer=0-no rating/experience
Satisfaction with manufacturer=1-very satisfied

Other Information about the Home and Stove

Room Size (Square feet): 609 | House Size: 3400
Bought in 2004 , Price Paid: $2200
Location : Wilson , WY , USA - Email of Reviewer: cal48koho@gmail.com
Purchased from: Fireplace Retail Store - unknown in Riverton WY


Likes: easy to fire. Glass stays clean. Possible to do limited cooking on top


Dislikes: none whatever


Comments: We heat 100% with wood and occasional coal lumps in perhaps one of the coldest parts of the US. Regularly below zero and -30's to occ -40's and have seen -60's. We heat a log cabin and inherited this stove from a renter who installed it. It is superb and we also burn trash becasue opur county has no landfill. We cook on a wood antique copper clad cookstove. We burn cottonwood and aspen and sometimes pine and fir we cut ourselves mostly on our land and we envy anyone who can burn hardwood. If it will be below -20 or -30 we often add a chunk of coal to make a fast morning start. We do not damp it down at night .


* Dates that reviews were submitted were not recorded prior to Nov. 2004


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