harrymowrey
New Member
- Mar 9, 2007
- 4
I have been burning a quadrifire castille model now for three years. It is a stand alone model and it takes about 5 minutes every Saturday to sweep the ash, wash the glass and fill the hopper. About every three months I drop the baffle plate and back plate and dust that out ...add an additional 10 minutes. Then about twice as year I run a 3" pipe brush through the piping. Mine is vented thru the back wall horizontally. It only has about 3 or 4 ' attached, very easy cleaning and it is all to code :>0 add another 5 minutes, I was afraid that the draft would not be enough but it works great. So total maintenance time so far is about 230 minutes per year...about 4 hours minus 10 minutes. A small price to pay considering when I get up in the mornings there is a flickering heat in my living room ....love the programmable thermostat..and it gives the wife something to push when she is cold instead of our central heat thermostat.
When we installed this stove I had the hearth in place all ready, It took all of about 45 minutes from un crating to watching it burn for the installation. The stove place had qouted me $1200.00 to install. gotta watch those people.
This forum alerted Me to the fact that there was a problem with the blower motor in these units , I contacted the store and I now have a FREE replacment sitting on my shelf when this one quits...thanks again.
I bought my last ton of pellets in July for $265.00 out the door. Now they are going for about $300.00 so I think it does matter when you buy. My father is installing a astraflam insert this weekend, I will report back once we have some data on it.
Harry Mowrey
When we installed this stove I had the hearth in place all ready, It took all of about 45 minutes from un crating to watching it burn for the installation. The stove place had qouted me $1200.00 to install. gotta watch those people.
This forum alerted Me to the fact that there was a problem with the blower motor in these units , I contacted the store and I now have a FREE replacment sitting on my shelf when this one quits...thanks again.
I bought my last ton of pellets in July for $265.00 out the door. Now they are going for about $300.00 so I think it does matter when you buy. My father is installing a astraflam insert this weekend, I will report back once we have some data on it.
Harry Mowrey