I knew it was missing the flue connector but figured I could fabricate or have my friend fabricate something for me. The price was only $120, and I see people out there trying to sell individual pieces for $100+ like doors and door glass etc. I was less than a half hour away. So I figured I’d just pick it up. Seeing these VC Encore seems to be all over, I figured they must not be hard to obtain or unload.
When I got there I realized why the guy couldn’t give me the model number. The rear heat shield is gone. Lots of bolts are removed, and pieces are literally falling out of this thing as if someone took it apart to move it out of the house (a house his daughter bought but didn’t want the stove). I am not afraid of a project. In fact, I burry myself in them. I was debating whether to build a fireplace around one of the inserts I already own or to put a wood stove up against the chimney that currently has a 4.5” hole in it, but is now rebuilt and ready to be lined with up to an 8” SS liner.
As I sit here with this pretty wood stove in the back of my truck, I think about how I may have gone the wrong way, and perhaps building a fireplace brick by brick might have been smarter.
Anyway, I will learn a new wood stove. I think I didn’t give the VC fireplace insert I owned a good enough shot before I dumped it. The guy who bought it from me loved it. I stuck with my Vermont Stove Company Shelburne insert(s). Maybe it’s time for me to simply try something new and not stay so married to that dumb old insert.
The VC Encore is a pretty unit which is one reason I liked the VSC Shelburne.
There’s no urgency around this project I’ve obtained, but I would like to learn more about it, maybe identify the model, maybe based on some casting numbers or stamping.
I hope to learn that this stove isn’t missing critical pieces, like:
- back heat shield
- duct connector piece
- blower?
- intake air duct. It appears to take a ~4” duct for intake air in the back bottom.
- irreplaceable back firebrick with the shell pattern on it. That doesn’t look like a cheap replacement item. But at least this stove is common. I hope to learn that most encore models are the same.
My model is a creme color one and it seems every time a look at it another flake falls off. The light color is pretty, but sure doesn’t look good when the paint comes off. I wonder if I will be able to find stove paint in this color. I guess there’s a reason they stopped making this color.
When I got there I realized why the guy couldn’t give me the model number. The rear heat shield is gone. Lots of bolts are removed, and pieces are literally falling out of this thing as if someone took it apart to move it out of the house (a house his daughter bought but didn’t want the stove). I am not afraid of a project. In fact, I burry myself in them. I was debating whether to build a fireplace around one of the inserts I already own or to put a wood stove up against the chimney that currently has a 4.5” hole in it, but is now rebuilt and ready to be lined with up to an 8” SS liner.
As I sit here with this pretty wood stove in the back of my truck, I think about how I may have gone the wrong way, and perhaps building a fireplace brick by brick might have been smarter.
Anyway, I will learn a new wood stove. I think I didn’t give the VC fireplace insert I owned a good enough shot before I dumped it. The guy who bought it from me loved it. I stuck with my Vermont Stove Company Shelburne insert(s). Maybe it’s time for me to simply try something new and not stay so married to that dumb old insert.
The VC Encore is a pretty unit which is one reason I liked the VSC Shelburne.
There’s no urgency around this project I’ve obtained, but I would like to learn more about it, maybe identify the model, maybe based on some casting numbers or stamping.
I hope to learn that this stove isn’t missing critical pieces, like:
- back heat shield
- duct connector piece
- blower?
- intake air duct. It appears to take a ~4” duct for intake air in the back bottom.
- irreplaceable back firebrick with the shell pattern on it. That doesn’t look like a cheap replacement item. But at least this stove is common. I hope to learn that most encore models are the same.
My model is a creme color one and it seems every time a look at it another flake falls off. The light color is pretty, but sure doesn’t look good when the paint comes off. I wonder if I will be able to find stove paint in this color. I guess there’s a reason they stopped making this color.
