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    New Hearthstone Shelbume operation

    New to wood stove, had this installed little above a month. It works great until last night. When I engaged the cat with a full load of the wood in the box. Obvious fire shown. After a while I realized the temp went down and when I opened the box, smoke comes out and the wood turn black not...
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    Brand new Vermont Castings Defiant 1975-CAT-C

    I had a VC Defiant Professionally installed brand new Fall 2021. Brick chimney 35' with new 6" liner. Previously used with Drolet non cat, one year, and VC Defiant from 1980, rebuilt, used one year, still leaked so abandoned for new. Waited 6 months for unit to be built. Super excited to buy a...