Price sound a little steep for new Lopi Declaration?(FPX elite 33, Avalon etc..)

[bonedoc]

Just got my official price quote for the installation of a FPX elite 33. About $4100 for materials; stove, (basic) face and surround, chimney liner and $900 for labor.

Over $5000 is about $1000 more than I had been quoted for the soup-to-nuts install of a PE Summit or Jotul 550.

Does that sound a little steep or are these units just that expensive and difficult to install?

(Oil at $2.25/gallon seems more and more appealing all the time.....)

 

[Pagey]

I paid just over $4,900 for my Lopi Endeavor install, which included: just over $2,000 for the stove, $400 for the pre-fab hearth pad, right at $900 to $1,000 for labor, and 5' of Selkirk double wall stove pipe and about 14' of Class A from Hart & Cooley. Expensive? Yes. Will takes years to "pay for itself"? Yes. Being warm in my own home for the first time in five years? Priceless. ;-)