Ashford 30.1 installed 8 hours. Love it already. Thx Hearth.com

[nEWRfire]

I've been a member of this forum since Jan 2017 and read it for a few months before hand. I never would have found out about blazeking if it wasn't for this forum - so thank you. Before i discovered hearth.com I was actually really frustrated with the lack of woodburning stove info and conflicting advice from showrooms. Some of you may remember my rookie questions. Expect more.

Why do I love the blazeking already. I started a small fire and when it was down to the coals I wanted to reload. I have read on here about the ease of reloading and burning new logs but never quite believed that it would work. I threw on some 15-18% moisture logs, had faith and in a few minutes they had taken. Wow.

I also love the blazeking customer service - I had a question about setting it up. Long story short, I bought the blazeking from a dealer who brought it to my door and I had to do/arrange the rest. I called blazeking and a friendly person answered - I told her why I was calling and she said oh you need to talk to 'dave' put me through to him and it sounded like he was in the middle of making a blazeking but he talked me through exactly what I needed to do.

Big shout out to Nick at Flue Tech Inc who did my chimney install today. Top professional and great service.

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Oh man. How much did they charge you?? I got a quote from Flue Tech for an Ashford 30 in Rockland. They were going to charge $5,000+stove. So I was looking at almost $9K total for the install. Since we might be moving in 2-5 years I decided to stick with my crappy fireplace and NG boiler for another year until we find out how long we are staying... But I doubt I would use Flue Tech. Seem good but overpriced. They also didn't want to do a interior pipe run. They would only run it externally.

Where did you get the stove? I asked several places around and Fireplace Etc. in Milford CT was cheapest at $3600 w/ fan kit.

Looks beautiful! I'm jealous.

 

[nEWRfire]

Fluetech were the middle quote we got. One company charged us $100 for a quote and then wanted to charge us $8.5k for install. Fluetech were a lot lot cheaper than this. They installed ours internally about 30 feet of pipe. Bought blazeking from a different dealer for approx $3.4k

 

[redktmrider]

Nice install! I really like the stove pad, it's beautiful! Is it granite?

 

[ValleyCottageSplitter]

Fluetech were the middle quote we got. One company charged us $100 for a quote and then wanted to charge us $8.5k for install. Fluetech were a lot lot cheaper than this. They installed ours internally about 30 feet of pipe. Bought blazeking from a different dealer for approx $3.4k

What? Really? The high bidder wanted $8.5K plus stove?
FT wanted 25' to run outside. I measured everything up and it would need 16' chimney, 5.4' stove pipe to run inside, maybe 18-20' to run outside. 30ft sounds super high. Is that 3 floors or something?

 

[Highbeam]

That shim!

Nice stove.

 

[Easy Livin’ 3000]

Fluetech were the middle quote we got. One company charged us $100 for a quote and then wanted to charge us $8.5k for install. Fluetech were a lot lot cheaper than this. They installed ours internally about 30 feet of pipe. Bought blazeking from a different dealer for approx $3.4k

$100 to provide a quote? I hope you told them what to do with that offer!

 

[nEWRfire]

Nice install! I really like the stove pad, it's beautiful! Is it granite?

Granite. Remnant from the stone 'yard' $400 including shaping. Hard part was getting from back of truck into house

 

[nEWRfire]

That shim!

Nice stove.

Too giddy to share my pics. Shim has gone now

 

[nEWRfire]

What? Really? The high bidder wanted $8.5K plus stove?
FT wanted 25' to run outside. I measured everything up and it would need 16' chimney, 5.4' stove pipe to run inside, maybe 18-20' to run outside. 30ft sounds super high. Is that 3 floors or something?

3 floors. Yep 8.5k without stove. Don't think they wanted the work.