Installed our New Englander stove according to manual and much help from the technical support people last year.. The stove ran all last season without a glitch... We fired it up last week and it ran perfectly.... We contacted the county several times after installation to have the final inspection... They never showed up until today....The gentleman was reading the manual, clearly confused and then stated, "You installed this stove according to the Basement illustration on the manual... Since you don't have a basement, I cannot approve it..... I live in a modular home and the easiest installation was through the wall... The manual has a note next to the basement illlustration reccommending this method and does not say you cannot use this method on a modular home... BTW, the stove is approved for manufactured homes.. We have read the manual and the stove is the appropriate distancee from the walls. The piping is installed internally and externally according to the manual...
He then tells me that we have two weeks to fix the installation or to pay another permit fee to extend it until we do.... I asked about penalties, he said there were none..
We are moving to warmer climes in Feb 2012... At that point, a friend is buying the stove from us.. I am reluctant to fix an issue that is nonexistant... My husband is calling the county to complain....The inspector couldn't read a manual... A friend installed his the same way and they approved his.. He lives in a trailer in a trailer park 4 miles from me...
He then tells me that we have two weeks to fix the installation or to pay another permit fee to extend it until we do.... I asked about penalties, he said there were none..
We are moving to warmer climes in Feb 2012... At that point, a friend is buying the stove from us.. I am reluctant to fix an issue that is nonexistant... My husband is calling the county to complain....The inspector couldn't read a manual... A friend installed his the same way and they approved his.. He lives in a trailer in a trailer park 4 miles from me...