I'm looking at an Avalon Arbor pellet stove and had a visit with my local Avalon dealer. They quoted me $2600 for the stove and another $1400 for the parts and install. $500 for the installation seems relatively reasonable for Eastern, MA, but $900 for the four inch pipe/elbows fittings seems a little steep.
Here's what I need to do:
From the Tee at the back of the stove, run 8' vertically through a ceiling so that should be a tee, 5' and a 3' pipe (or 2x 4' or however we make it up) and a ceiling plate.
Once through the ceiling turn 90 degrees horizontally and run about 5' of pipe out the exterior wall, so I need a 90 elbow, a 5' pipe an exterior wall plate, and a horizontal cap.
Tallying all of this up using DuraVent at hartshearth.com puts me at $590 for:
60" Black Pipe
36" Black Pipe
Black Tee
Black Ceiling support
60" Stainless Pipe
2 45 degree elbows (in case I need some wiggle room btwn joists)
Wall Thimble
House Shield
Horizontal Rain Cap
I realize my local dealer needs to make a profit and I'm happy to give him one, but if I can get the supplies retail for $590 I assume he can get them for less-- let's be nice and say $500--is it reasonable to expect to pay almost a 50% markup? If not, what is a reasonable profit margin? Is he giving me the "15% off sale price" of the stove and marking up the install supplies to make up the loss on the stove? Any insights into what a fair price would be is much appreciated. Is DuraVent crap and that's why it's so much cheaper? Should I bag the local dealer, get one in NH, save on the sales tax and do it myself?
Thank you for your help!
Steve
Here's what I need to do:
From the Tee at the back of the stove, run 8' vertically through a ceiling so that should be a tee, 5' and a 3' pipe (or 2x 4' or however we make it up) and a ceiling plate.
Once through the ceiling turn 90 degrees horizontally and run about 5' of pipe out the exterior wall, so I need a 90 elbow, a 5' pipe an exterior wall plate, and a horizontal cap.
Tallying all of this up using DuraVent at hartshearth.com puts me at $590 for:
60" Black Pipe
36" Black Pipe
Black Tee
Black Ceiling support
60" Stainless Pipe
2 45 degree elbows (in case I need some wiggle room btwn joists)
Wall Thimble
House Shield
Horizontal Rain Cap
I realize my local dealer needs to make a profit and I'm happy to give him one, but if I can get the supplies retail for $590 I assume he can get them for less-- let's be nice and say $500--is it reasonable to expect to pay almost a 50% markup? If not, what is a reasonable profit margin? Is he giving me the "15% off sale price" of the stove and marking up the install supplies to make up the loss on the stove? Any insights into what a fair price would be is much appreciated. Is DuraVent crap and that's why it's so much cheaper? Should I bag the local dealer, get one in NH, save on the sales tax and do it myself?
Thank you for your help!
Steve
