I was chatting with my Dad today about an old woodstove he had. It was a Vermont Castings Defiant or Defiant Encore - he doesn't remember nor do I.
The stove was bought and installed sometime about 1992 and he had a new masonary chimney built with an 8 inch thimble. He seems to recall that the stove pipe dictated the 8 inch thimble on the chimney.
The stove was a cat model and inspite of cutting dead wood, he got gallons of creosote with the VC and found himself cleaning the chimney about once a month or so. He sold it in about 1996-ish.
My question is - what VC stove was made in the 1992 time frame - the Defiant or the Defiant Encore and how did they differ, size only? I'm thinking my Dad, inspite of good wood, never burned the stove/cat correctly and that made for a lot of creosote. But really, were these older VC cat stoves as clean burning as today's cat stoves?
Thanks!
Bill
The stove was bought and installed sometime about 1992 and he had a new masonary chimney built with an 8 inch thimble. He seems to recall that the stove pipe dictated the 8 inch thimble on the chimney.
The stove was a cat model and inspite of cutting dead wood, he got gallons of creosote with the VC and found himself cleaning the chimney about once a month or so. He sold it in about 1996-ish.
My question is - what VC stove was made in the 1992 time frame - the Defiant or the Defiant Encore and how did they differ, size only? I'm thinking my Dad, inspite of good wood, never burned the stove/cat correctly and that made for a lot of creosote. But really, were these older VC cat stoves as clean burning as today's cat stoves?
Thanks!
Bill