Hello everyone,
My wife and I just bought our first home a few months ago and are about to spend our first winter in it (although it did snow for a while tonight). We live in the Northeast, and our home has an existing masonry fireplace.
We are planning on putting in a fireplace insert, and had decided to go with the PE Summit. I know that there seemed to be quite a problem with the ones that were manufactured in the 2006-2007 time frame, so hopefully that's worked out.
However, my wife showed me some comments on another site where every single one of them adamantly said not to buy the PE Summit. Most of the complaints were related to the baffle wearing out or warping annually, as well how noisy they are. Has anyone here had similar problems with their Summit?
The dealer we are getting it from has given us a quote for around $2500 for the insert, door, trim, and installation. I still want to go ahead with it, but don't want to regret it in a year. I figured it was time to ask the experts on this site!
BTW, I have really enjoyed and appreciated reading all of the different threads on this site. Everyone has an enormous amount of information on inserts and how best to burn. I hope to learn a lot from you guys and gals! So thanks is advance for all of the info.
My wife and I just bought our first home a few months ago and are about to spend our first winter in it (although it did snow for a while tonight). We live in the Northeast, and our home has an existing masonry fireplace.
We are planning on putting in a fireplace insert, and had decided to go with the PE Summit. I know that there seemed to be quite a problem with the ones that were manufactured in the 2006-2007 time frame, so hopefully that's worked out.
However, my wife showed me some comments on another site where every single one of them adamantly said not to buy the PE Summit. Most of the complaints were related to the baffle wearing out or warping annually, as well how noisy they are. Has anyone here had similar problems with their Summit?
The dealer we are getting it from has given us a quote for around $2500 for the insert, door, trim, and installation. I still want to go ahead with it, but don't want to regret it in a year. I figured it was time to ask the experts on this site!
BTW, I have really enjoyed and appreciated reading all of the different threads on this site. Everyone has an enormous amount of information on inserts and how best to burn. I hope to learn a lot from you guys and gals! So thanks is advance for all of the info.