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RedGuy

RedGuy

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Oct 30, 2010
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Davisburg, MI
After researching, buying, waiting, I finally got my wood stove and insulated SS Liner installed! Just need to get the OK from the insurance man and I'm ready to fire it up. :D BTW It took me, an amature a total of about 6 hours from opening the boxes to afixing the chimney cap. I can't believe an installer wanted $1,300 to do this job.
 
Good on you for getting it done yourself - congrats, and.........PHOTOS! Cheers!
 
Did you get it from solleys?
 
woodzilla said:
Did you get it from solleys?
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No, Solleys wanted the most out of anyone I checked, the wanted abit over $1,000 for the Liner Kit and their cheapest wood stove is over $2,000. I paid $632 for my 20ft Flex King Pro with insulation and $629 for my stove from Lowes. I generally like to buy things local, but seems that Solleys caters to the higher end customer.
 
cmonSTART said:
Nice job!

Pics or it didn't happen!
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Pics to come, still have to clean up the mess LOL.
 
Congrats look forward to the pics!

Ray
 
RedGuy said:
woodzilla said:
Did you get it from solleys?
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No, Solleys wanted the most out of anyone I checked, the wanted abit over $1,000 for the Liner Kit and their cheapest wood stove is over $2,000. I paid $632 for my 20ft Flex King Pro with insulation and $629 for my stove from Lowes. I generally like to buy things local, but seems that Solleys caters to the higher end customer.
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I've heard that before. I stopped in there just to see their showroom. Ended up getting a great price ( off season). Good luck with your inspection and first season. Congrats!
 
Finally up and running! Insurance guy cam by today took two pics said it looks great, fire it up! Plus since I installed it as an insert, no increase in my premium. :D So far I've burned two low short fires in it to cure the paint, in a couple hours it'll be time to fire it up for the high burn to finish the curing. The fumes from the pain so far have been tollerable, well see what happens when I really crank it up this next time.

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Looks good!

Of course we will need the full report as soon as possible..lol...burn times..stove top and flue temps!
 
Looking good enjoy the heat!
 
HotCoals said:
Looks good!

Of course we will need the full report as soon as possible..lol...burn times..stove top and flue temps!
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Thanks! BTW I can give burn times, but I don't have any temp tools. I'm new to wood stoves, what and where would I buy something like that?
 
Very Nice! Good looking install. Enjoy the heat!
 
cmonSTART said:
Looks great! That's a really interesting fireplace opening.
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Yeah I like the fire place, someone obviously took some time to make it look good, unfortunately they just didn't make it fuctional as a fireplace. It's nice to finally see smoke coming from the top of my chimney rather than the front of the fireplace! LOL
 
Well after my first night burning I was pretty pleased with the stove. Even when it came time for the 3rd high burn to cure the paint there was not a significant amount of fumes or smoke assosiated with it. I figure this was due to properly curing the stove with 2 short low burns allowing the stove to cool before the high burn, as the manual recomends. I fired the stove up for the rest of the night at about 7:30 within about 1/2 an hour it was running us out of the living room! LOL A box fan placed at the stairs took care of that. I loaded 4 pieces of wood at first which more or less filled the box, through out the night I added about 5 more pieces of wood till about 11:30 when I put one large split in, turned the air control down and went to bed. This morning when I woke up at 7 the stove was still putting out a fair amount of heat and there was a good bed of coals. Now the down side, looks like at some point durring the night my top plate popped off, my guess is the liner expanded due to the heat and pushed it off. I may have to get a terracota cap.
 
RedGuy said:
Well after my first night burning I was pretty pleased with the stove. Even when it came time for the 3rd high burn to cure the paint there was not a significant amount of fumes or smoke assosiated with it. I figure this was due to properly curing the stove with 2 short low burns allowing the stove to cool before the high burn, as the manual recomends. I fired the stove up for the rest of the night at about 7:30 within about 1/2 an hour it was running us out of the living room! LOL A box fan placed at the stairs took care of that. I loaded 4 pieces of wood at first which more or less filled the box, through out the night I added about 5 more pieces of wood till about 11:30 when I put one large split in, turned the air control down and went to bed. This morning when I woke up at 7 the stove was still putting out a fair amount of heat and there was a good bed of coals. Now the down side, looks like at some point durring the night my top plate popped off, my guess is the liner expanded due to the heat and pushed it off. I may have to get a terracota cap.
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Congrats on the new stove install! I like the look of your fireplace and stove! Fireplace is unique looking than the tradition square look, reminds me of a beehive... Sounds like the new stove is working out for you too.. Does the blower throw out lots of heat? It's cool that the blower is free with the stove and pretty much unheard of these days.. Keep us posted and good luck!

Ray
 
I can't reall feel the blower moving the air, but it's also a very low CFM fan, 110cfm. I get plenty of heat coming out of the fireplace so I assume it's moving air. It's not very loud, sounds like a typical bathroom fan. And yes it's very nice the blower comes with it, IMO $629 with the blower is a great deal. If I can reduce my oil usage by even 1/2 the stove and liner will have paid for itself this year! Actually probably only a 1/3rd reduction would pay for it with the tax credit.
 
RedGuy said:
I can't reall feel the blower moving the air, but it's also a very low CFM fan, 110cfm. I get plenty of heat coming out of the fireplace so I assume it's moving air. It's not very loud, sounds like a typical bathroom fan. And yes it's very nice the blower comes with it, IMO $629 with the blower is a great deal. If I can reduce my oil usage by even 1/2 the stove and liner will have paid for itself this year! Actually probably only a 1/3rd reduction would pay for it with the tax credit.
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Sounds like you got a great deal on that stove! When I was at Lowes I recall them costing quite a bit more than what you paid.. The blower alone is worth $100.00 as they charge alot when you get them from the stove people.. I like the fact that it is a low cfm blower as that keeps the noise down and still gets the job done. Was a pedestal base an option on that stove too?.. If they had an option for cast iron legs I think it would look nicer than the ones that come with it.. Let us know how it works out for you..

Ray
 
The pedistal base is an option from the manufacture, put lowes doesn't sell them that way. The legs though was one of the reasons I bought it I like the look. These stoves where $769 a couple months ago, then they dropped the price to $699 plus I had a 10% off coupon which brought it down to $629. So far it's working well aside from my top plate coming off, but since it snowed last night I'm not going on the roof today to deal with it. Also appers my wood is not quite seasoned, it was felled this spring into 8ft logs but I didn't start splitting it til this weekend. It's burning ok, not really getting any smoke at all but the wood does sizzle for 15-20 minutes when first put in. Unfortunately this is what I have as I'm sure even if I was to buy wood I wouldn't get anything better. I'll just have to keep cutting and splitting in hopes to get ahead of the game and have some good seasoned wood for next year.
 
Do you have the dimensions on the 1800? I can't find them anywhere online. I've been hunting for a little stove to put in our fireplace, and I don't want to shell out the 2k for an insert.

-Gil
 
gil said:
Do you have the dimensions on the 1800? I can't find them anywhere online. I've been hunting for a little stove to put in our fireplace, and I don't want to shell out the 2k for an insert.

-Gil
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30.75"H x 27"L x 23"W
 
gil said:
Do you have the dimensions on the 1800? I can't find them anywhere online. I've been hunting for a little stove to put in our fireplace, and I don't want to shell out the 2k for an insert.

-Gil
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It's 29 1/2 inches to the top, 31" to the top of the flue, 27" wide, 23" deep to the edge to the front of the ash pan, 20" back to front glass add 4" for the blower, the legs are 26" wide 14" deep. For me that hight to the edges mattered since my fireplace is arched. If you need any other dimensions let me know, I have one right here. ;)
 
BTW add another 6 inches to that height for the pallet and packaging for transporting it. I didn't and it just BARELY fit in the back of my suburban due to being taller than I figured.
 
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