Been reading for over a year but just joined.
My wife and I spent the day shopping for inserts and went to 4 different stores. Been researching for awhile.
I have loved the Jotul Rockland 550 insert and had my wife convinced (until today). Then she and I both fell in love with the Lopi Cape Cod insert.
Then after speaking with a salesman for awhile he turned my wife onto the Avalon Olympic and the Lopi Freedom.
I had previously wanted something w/o a surround as my existing brick/masonry fireplace in our 1912 Sears kit house has beautiful ornamental dental work. My wife did not want the “wood stove stuffed in a fireplace” look. But has since changed her mind. Which is good because we will save over a thousand bucks.
Looks like we are going with the Olympic or the Freedom w/o a surround in black. We both like the Olympic but I have concerns that the door does not open more than 90deg. The store did not have the Freedom in stock but told us the door opened up more on that model than the Olympic. My wife prefers the door “style” on the Olympic over the Freedom. I know they are basically the same stove/insert.
Anyway……, any discussion on these two inserts would be appreciated before we take the plunge.
My wife and I spent the day shopping for inserts and went to 4 different stores. Been researching for awhile.
I have loved the Jotul Rockland 550 insert and had my wife convinced (until today). Then she and I both fell in love with the Lopi Cape Cod insert.
Then after speaking with a salesman for awhile he turned my wife onto the Avalon Olympic and the Lopi Freedom.
I had previously wanted something w/o a surround as my existing brick/masonry fireplace in our 1912 Sears kit house has beautiful ornamental dental work. My wife did not want the “wood stove stuffed in a fireplace” look. But has since changed her mind. Which is good because we will save over a thousand bucks.
Looks like we are going with the Olympic or the Freedom w/o a surround in black. We both like the Olympic but I have concerns that the door does not open more than 90deg. The store did not have the Freedom in stock but told us the door opened up more on that model than the Olympic. My wife prefers the door “style” on the Olympic over the Freedom. I know they are basically the same stove/insert.
Anyway……, any discussion on these two inserts would be appreciated before we take the plunge.
