This weekend my wife and I made one last swing around to stove dealers and we thought we were ready to purchase a Santa Fe pellet stove as the off season sale started and the local dealer
'beleived" the Santa Fe will qualify for the upconing tax rebate. We have a small living room and need a small stove to place in the corner. It came down to the Harman Advance, the Enviro Evolution and the Quadra Fire Santa Fe. The Harmon and the
Enviro looked like good stoves, but even with some off season sales prices they were no where close to the Santa Fe that can be had on sale for $1599.
My remaining issues are where the exhaust will exit the house just 48" away from the nearest window if we measure diagonaly downward from the window toward the exhaust. My dealer thinks I will be able to get by with a horizontal pipe only, but I have concerns about soot on the vinyl siding occuring. The dealer said those home that have soot are not taking care of there stoves as they should.
If I could I would run the pipe up the side of my home and above the roofline. I have a small cap cod style. Windows on the second floor prevent a pipe going straight. My only option would be to place a 45 degree to move the direction of the pipe to the left and then a 45 degree back to the right and then straight up to the roof. I think that might look a little goofy on the side of the house and might cause cleaning issues.
My idea was to ask the dealer to at least install the outside exhaust using 4" pipe in such a way that if I did get soot on the house I could easily modify the outside to extend the pipe upward approx 5' and also get some natural draft in time of commercial power failure. I also asked about using outside air and was surprised at how large the outside air assembly is on the exterior of the building when compared to a simple exhaust. I wonder if you can just bore a seperate hole and push a pipe throught for ouside air provided I keep it 1' away from the exhaust?
Lastly and this is the biggy!
last evening I searched the forum for any new info on the Santa Fe stove and was really discouraged to see some reports of hopper fires using this stove. Now I am tryinhg to decide if this was such a good idea after all! Would any Sants Fe owners please comment and any other users that have had hopper fires.
'beleived" the Santa Fe will qualify for the upconing tax rebate. We have a small living room and need a small stove to place in the corner. It came down to the Harman Advance, the Enviro Evolution and the Quadra Fire Santa Fe. The Harmon and the
Enviro looked like good stoves, but even with some off season sales prices they were no where close to the Santa Fe that can be had on sale for $1599.
My remaining issues are where the exhaust will exit the house just 48" away from the nearest window if we measure diagonaly downward from the window toward the exhaust. My dealer thinks I will be able to get by with a horizontal pipe only, but I have concerns about soot on the vinyl siding occuring. The dealer said those home that have soot are not taking care of there stoves as they should.
If I could I would run the pipe up the side of my home and above the roofline. I have a small cap cod style. Windows on the second floor prevent a pipe going straight. My only option would be to place a 45 degree to move the direction of the pipe to the left and then a 45 degree back to the right and then straight up to the roof. I think that might look a little goofy on the side of the house and might cause cleaning issues.
My idea was to ask the dealer to at least install the outside exhaust using 4" pipe in such a way that if I did get soot on the house I could easily modify the outside to extend the pipe upward approx 5' and also get some natural draft in time of commercial power failure. I also asked about using outside air and was surprised at how large the outside air assembly is on the exterior of the building when compared to a simple exhaust. I wonder if you can just bore a seperate hole and push a pipe throught for ouside air provided I keep it 1' away from the exhaust?
Lastly and this is the biggy!
last evening I searched the forum for any new info on the Santa Fe stove and was really discouraged to see some reports of hopper fires using this stove. Now I am tryinhg to decide if this was such a good idea after all! Would any Sants Fe owners please comment and any other users that have had hopper fires.
