So, with all of the trouble I have had using my new I3100, I have a new problem. Last night the air tube fell out again, so I didn't fire the stove overnight and came back to install the air tube. As I finished hammering it in, I noticed paint flaking from the side wall just above the fire brick, mostly on the E side but also a little on the W side.
I have been meticulous about trying to not overfire this thing. As I said in another post, I even had a friend over who owns a Regency I2400 and he gave me the suggestions to run hotter than I was. Now I have flaking!! No doubt, Regency will claim I have overfired the unit.
I am very disappointed with this insert. I wish now I would have modified my hearth and put a freestanding stove in instead. Yesterday was the coldest it has been all year, and unless the insert was at full open burn, the temp tumbled very quickly in the room the insert is in to below 70F. After two hours, the NG furnace begins kicking in and all the I3100 does is keep it from coming on more often than it would.
Perhaps new windows would have been a better place for my $4300.
I have been meticulous about trying to not overfire this thing. As I said in another post, I even had a friend over who owns a Regency I2400 and he gave me the suggestions to run hotter than I was. Now I have flaking!! No doubt, Regency will claim I have overfired the unit.
I am very disappointed with this insert. I wish now I would have modified my hearth and put a freestanding stove in instead. Yesterday was the coldest it has been all year, and unless the insert was at full open burn, the temp tumbled very quickly in the room the insert is in to below 70F. After two hours, the NG furnace begins kicking in and all the I3100 does is keep it from coming on more often than it would.
Perhaps new windows would have been a better place for my $4300.