Hello Everyone:
Its been a bit since I've posted, as I finally purchased a pellet insert to supplement my electric heat and my Joutl C550 Rockland Insert. The Joutl is in the basement and I purchased a Quad Mt. Vernon insert for the upstairs fireplace. I have a few questions that hopefully some of you Mt. Vernon insert owners can answer. As far as the installation, I'm either going to have my current chimney guy who I trust 100% do it, or have the dealer do it. Not totally sure yet. Anyway, It looks like the insert will be needing a pipe to suck in air as well as a pipe for exhaust. Is this correct? I see me running two pipes up the chimney if this is so. Are they both 3 inch or is one 3 inch and the other 4 inch?
I was talking about maintenance with the dealer, and I have more questions about that too. When you remove the (I believe its the convection fan??) for cleaning, is there some sort of gasket that you need to replace? If so , is this a yearly replacement of this gasket, or is it sooner? How often do you find that you need to clean the blower per tonnage of pellets?
Is there any other gotchas out there that you can think of with either installing the unit or cleaning it? If so, please feel free to chime in as the install should be taking place within the next 3 weeks, and I better get my butt in gear getting pellets stocked up in my basement( as well as my 3 cord of wood for the basement insert!!)
I will start this year with 2 tons of either Barefoot or Allegheny pellets (one ton free from the dealer) , and I will try to get 10 bags of pellets (whatever they have) from Lowes and 10 from Home Depot just to try them so I'm looking at about 2.5 ton to burn this year, and will go from there.
Any comments/suggestions welcome as this will be my first experience buying and burning pellets in a stove that seems to be a whole lot smarter than I am!!
Thanks,
Joe
Its been a bit since I've posted, as I finally purchased a pellet insert to supplement my electric heat and my Joutl C550 Rockland Insert. The Joutl is in the basement and I purchased a Quad Mt. Vernon insert for the upstairs fireplace. I have a few questions that hopefully some of you Mt. Vernon insert owners can answer. As far as the installation, I'm either going to have my current chimney guy who I trust 100% do it, or have the dealer do it. Not totally sure yet. Anyway, It looks like the insert will be needing a pipe to suck in air as well as a pipe for exhaust. Is this correct? I see me running two pipes up the chimney if this is so. Are they both 3 inch or is one 3 inch and the other 4 inch?
I was talking about maintenance with the dealer, and I have more questions about that too. When you remove the (I believe its the convection fan??) for cleaning, is there some sort of gasket that you need to replace? If so , is this a yearly replacement of this gasket, or is it sooner? How often do you find that you need to clean the blower per tonnage of pellets?
Is there any other gotchas out there that you can think of with either installing the unit or cleaning it? If so, please feel free to chime in as the install should be taking place within the next 3 weeks, and I better get my butt in gear getting pellets stocked up in my basement( as well as my 3 cord of wood for the basement insert!!)
I will start this year with 2 tons of either Barefoot or Allegheny pellets (one ton free from the dealer) , and I will try to get 10 bags of pellets (whatever they have) from Lowes and 10 from Home Depot just to try them so I'm looking at about 2.5 ton to burn this year, and will go from there.
Any comments/suggestions welcome as this will be my first experience buying and burning pellets in a stove that seems to be a whole lot smarter than I am!!
Thanks,
Joe