Moved houses last year on the sidd of Guardian Mtn in Byrdcliffe, Woodstock NY. A beautiful secluded place in deep forest in a 1988 house. Unfortunately other than oil heat, the home had an originsl heatilator with the chimney double wall ss in a wooden chase that had been modified and was dangerous.
We got rid of the ineffective heatilator and relined the chimney properly and did a beautiful tile job over multiple layers of hardibacker. Bought a new Vermont Castings Encore with catlyst (our first, our old house had original Vigilant & Defiant) and connected it up, burning local red osk & cherry we seasoned a year under cover.
The stove burns very hot, always. Damper closed, air vent closed, it shoots uo to 750f in an hour and stays there till it runs out of fuel in about 5 hours.
Cracker Mill, who sold us this (and the previous 2 long ago) says stove is fine, offered to sell me a butterfly for the chimney.
Something seems wrong, leaky in the stove perhaps. Our old VC stoves gave us over 14 hours burn time.
Suggestions?
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We got rid of the ineffective heatilator and relined the chimney properly and did a beautiful tile job over multiple layers of hardibacker. Bought a new Vermont Castings Encore with catlyst (our first, our old house had original Vigilant & Defiant) and connected it up, burning local red osk & cherry we seasoned a year under cover.
The stove burns very hot, always. Damper closed, air vent closed, it shoots uo to 750f in an hour and stays there till it runs out of fuel in about 5 hours.
Cracker Mill, who sold us this (and the previous 2 long ago) says stove is fine, offered to sell me a butterfly for the chimney.
Something seems wrong, leaky in the stove perhaps. Our old VC stoves gave us over 14 hours burn time.
Suggestions?
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