Installed my brand new VC Aspen C3 last month and I’m not impressed. Let me start by saying the advertised burn time of 10 hours is false advertising. Packing the firebox full at night will get you 4–6 hours. I would love to know where they came up with 10 hours.
Getting a fire started is pretty easy although smoke will often pour into the house from the air inlet pipe under the stove. Additionally if you open the door more than a crack smoke will pour into the room. You can start the fire and close the door but to get the stove up to a respectable temperature you have to leave the door cracked open which is not great. If you just shut the door the stove will hover between 300-400 degrees.
One of the most annoying things about this stove is that the glass gets so dirty after each burn that it needs to be cleaned everyday with a razor blade.
All in all the stove misses pretty much every mark. If you’re going to manufacture a stove with no air control then it had better be perfect which this one is far from. Apparently they are now “temporarily unavailable,” I got the last one from the dealer nearby. I wonder why? I had heard negative things about Vermont Castings for a long time before buying this stove but I took a chance, wish I hadn’t
Getting a fire started is pretty easy although smoke will often pour into the house from the air inlet pipe under the stove. Additionally if you open the door more than a crack smoke will pour into the room. You can start the fire and close the door but to get the stove up to a respectable temperature you have to leave the door cracked open which is not great. If you just shut the door the stove will hover between 300-400 degrees.
One of the most annoying things about this stove is that the glass gets so dirty after each burn that it needs to be cleaned everyday with a razor blade.
All in all the stove misses pretty much every mark. If you’re going to manufacture a stove with no air control then it had better be perfect which this one is far from. Apparently they are now “temporarily unavailable,” I got the last one from the dealer nearby. I wonder why? I had heard negative things about Vermont Castings for a long time before buying this stove but I took a chance, wish I hadn’t