I really like the Mt Vernon INSERT, but I have heard of a lot of problems with models with up till late 2008, and that Quadrafire has worked them. I am mechanically skilled but this is for my kid who will use it in a fairly light colored formal living room (he needs the heat and this is the best location. The Accentra was the other contender, but for the same money, it is noisier but gives less heat, although dealers seem to like its reliabilty.)
That said:
Do folks who know the stove feel the bugs have been ironed out? I hear Quadra is not the most responsive company.
IN an area like eastern PA, I use a bag of pellets a day in my Breckwell P24 as an alternate heat source. Is this comparable in consumption on average (1600 square ft for him - he has a heat pump -I have heard they are voracious pellet eaters).
I have a monsterous ash pan on my breckwell. Ashpans on inserts are smaller and I hear this has some self cleaning ash dump system. How often must it be emptied on average in colder months?
Thanks for any input.
Dan M.
That said:
Do folks who know the stove feel the bugs have been ironed out? I hear Quadra is not the most responsive company.
IN an area like eastern PA, I use a bag of pellets a day in my Breckwell P24 as an alternate heat source. Is this comparable in consumption on average (1600 square ft for him - he has a heat pump -I have heard they are voracious pellet eaters).
I have a monsterous ash pan on my breckwell. Ashpans on inserts are smaller and I hear this has some self cleaning ash dump system. How often must it be emptied on average in colder months?
Thanks for any input.
Dan M.
