After much research, we bought a Vermont Castings Alpine C3 Wood Stove. It was the perfect stove for our situation (on paper, at least), but in real life, not so much. You see, most of the time, the smoke emptied out into the camp via the door, bottom of the stove, or stove pipe.
Not good.
The installers came out to look at it a couple of times. The first time, they noted that the heat blanket in the stove had melted, so they replaced that. The next time they noted that the stove was cracked. They replaced it, and it did work for a short time after that.
After the stove stopped working again, we decided enough was enough. We wanted a new, different stove.
One that, you know, worked.
The guys came to remove that stove. Surprise! The entire area that hooked up to the stove pipe was completely blocked.
After they removed the defective stove (good riddance!), they gave us a temporary replacement. It’s a True North TN-20.
Not only is it beautiful, but it’s a beast! The temperature blasted to 90 degrees, much better than the barely 60 we were getting to with the former stove.
Now if we only had a well …
Karen Creamer
It looks like the stove pipe flange was welded on without the flue pipe hole cut out? No wonder it smoked so much
The stove guy said when the EPA changed the guidelines for emissions, that’s what messed up this stove!