Ashford 30.2 install thread

[xshmoox]

I’m probably wrapping burning up for this year I wanted to really pull the cat to inspect further and inspect my chimney, needless to say cat was worse than I thought almost fell apart pulling it out. And when I got to the chimney I was even less thrilled to see the build up it has caused. I’m unsure if that’s gonna come clean. Picture is looking up from clean out tee. I forgot to reach out to dealer as work was crazy busy with cold weather but plan to reach out tomorrow.

 

[begreen]

Ugh, that's not a pretty sight. Is it from the bottom looking up, or top down?
How many hours or years on the cat?

 

[xshmoox]

Ugh, that's not a pretty sight. Is it from the bottom looking up, or top down?
How many hours or years on the cat?

Bottom of tee looking up. That’s 1.5-2 cords lol

 

[xshmoox]

So probably roughly 2250 hours give or take

 

[begreen]

Something is not right if the cat was new. It should last around 10-12,000 hrs.

 

[xshmoox]

Yeah I know. I’m under the assumption it was just a bad cat. I never even experienced the overactive new cat syndrome everyone has when the cat thermometer pegs. Plus I was pretty underwhelmed with heat output. So hopefully that was just the case. I’ll contact the dealer and get a warranty cat and probably get it installed and maybe I’ll do a couple day test run to see the difference before the season is over.