I went to the Travis industries web site and it said they no longer sell Avalon stoves. When did they drop Avalon?
https://www.avalonfirestyles.com/
https://www.avalonfirestyles.com/
When did Travis Industries drop Avalon?
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Jan Pijpelink
Minister of Fire
It was a brand that they bought up a long time ago. With Lopi,Travis industries, Avalon, and FPX it was getting too hard to keep them straight. They simply dropped a few badges and some outdated designs.
I didn't see either on their web site.
I picked up two Freedoms on craigslist for free in the last two years. The first one was a basket case that I repaired for my house and I got a turnkey stove for a friend. Both came with blowers and the second had a surround. Great stoves.
I picked up two Freedoms on craigslist for free in the last two years. The first one was a basket case that I repaired for my house and I got a turnkey stove for a friend. Both came with blowers and the second had a surround. Great stoves.
Jan Pijpelink
Minister of Fire
Jan Pijpelink
Minister of Fire
I agree. I have the Avalon Rainier insert, extended install, no surround for more heat. Great stoves indeed.
I paid $100 for this freedom bay on the FB marketplace. I think I paid $800 for my freedom , but it was only like 2 years old.
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Nice! Did you get a good deal on it? Your door isn’t completely latched, it should be point straight down when completely latched.
I got the Freedom for free with a solid liner. It was over fired and the air ducts were cracked , it was missing the upper brick supports and it was really rusty. I spent a lot of time fixing it up. It did come with a blower that worked too.
The only steel stoves from Lopi that I’ve seen overfire like that has from bad gaskets or not getting the door latched completely. They are pretty tough stoves.
You should have seen the house that it came out of. Everything there was worked over and trashed. The house was on an acre in Berkeley, California which is worth well over a million bucks. The grass was 4' high and there was trash everywhere. It was a portion of an old farm and the lot had the farmhouse. It looked like it was built in maybe the 1920's and could have used paint decades ago. There were broken windows and missing siding. The inside was filthy and it looked like someone dragged boulders over the oak flooring. Garbage everywhere.
The stove was busted up too. The glass was broken and all the upper firebrick was missing. Inside there was melted plastic and all kinds of cigarette butts. It wouldn't surprise me if they were throwing gasoline or something similar in there. The air ducts were cracked at the joints and the upper firebrick support metal was warped bad. This poor Freedom was thoroughly trashed. It took me months to fix it up.
The stove was busted up too. The glass was broken and all the upper firebrick was missing. Inside there was melted plastic and all kinds of cigarette butts. It wouldn't surprise me if they were throwing gasoline or something similar in there. The air ducts were cracked at the joints and the upper firebrick support metal was warped bad. This poor Freedom was thoroughly trashed. It took me months to fix it up.
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