Quadra-Fire Mt. Vernon AE
| Product Type: | Free Standing Pellet Stove |
| Brand: | Quadra-Fire (Hearth & Home Technologies) |
| Description: |
Multi-fuel stove made of cast-iron designed to deliver heat to single-family homes. The unit features:
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| Product Type: | Free Standing Pellet Stove |
| Brand: | Quadra-Fire (Hearth & Home Technologies) |
| Description: |
Multi-fuel stove made of cast-iron designed to deliver heat to single-family homes. The unit features:
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Sat, 01/14/2012 - 19:00
the ignitor burns out too often, average yearly at an installed charge approx. $180.00. Compute this with your annual operating cost.
a typical condensing gas furnace ignitor life 5 - 10 years.
My local dealer verified this ignitor problem.
This stove is by far superior to any other, and the manufacturer needs warned to address issue.
Wed, 07/27/2011 - 07:52
This is agood site. I like it.
Fri, 02/11/2011 - 01:26
Had my stove 4 years. Puts out a lot of heat when working. Its noisy, goes through ignitors quickly. Have had to replace 3 ignitors in the past 4 months. This is a very expensive appliance, expected much better reliability. Wouldn't recommend Quadrafire.
Sun, 01/30/2011 - 21:23
I thought it had an 80lb capacity? I was just looking at this model the other day and plan to replace my wood stove with it.
Mon, 01/17/2011 - 00:27
Hi Everyone,
This is a tremendous stove, heating most of my 3600 sq ft home. It's my second pellet stove, and it has some significant benefits over our first.
On the plus side:
It's relatively easy to clean, but I also credit that to our ash vac, money well spent.
It has a nice control system, making it much like a regular heating system.
It kicks outs gobs of efficient heat. It has actually made itself a center of our family room, unlike our incredibly inefficient/expensive propane fireplace insert in our last house.
It looks great.
Downside:
I've seen all kinds of quotes about the hopper capacity. Folks, it is 40 lbs MAX. If it is still running and you want to add a bag, well maybe you will get it in. I go through a bag a day in moderate winter (daytime highs over 30), more below that. I saw someone quoting 65 lbs, I would ask of what...it's 40 lbs of wood pellets.
Also, and this is my main disatisfier, you can try to put 40 lbs in, but you'll get to 20-30 lbs and have to jam your hand in the hopper to push them into the trough. EXTREMELY disatisfying. Such a nice stove whose day to day experience is ruined by this lack of decent engineering.
ALSO, should you run it dry of pellets, which is easy to do as a new owner not used to filling it up, be prepared for a 15-20 minute startup time if you don't preload the firepot, maybe even if you do. Seems like forever if you are waiting for heat.
Overall, very good stove, but it seems like they need another engineering cycle to make it easy for the average homeowner.
Thu, 12/04/2008 - 12:19
The URL listed in the first message of this thread contains information from 2006. Since then, Quadrafire has made many engineering changes to the electronics of the Mount Vernon. These changes have resulted in a much improved unit. I have been reading many blogs that support my statement and discussed the past problems with a Quad dealer that stopped selling Mt Vernons in early 2007 due to the problematic design, but resumed selling in the summer of 2008 after the improvemnts to control circuitry was made. I'm waiting for mine to be delivered in the next week.
Wed, 10/08/2008 - 14:37
Just review this http://www.hvac-talk.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=121383
Sat, 03/29/2008 - 23:07
I purchased a Mount Vernon AE last year and it spent 3 out of the last 6 months in inoperable condition. Quadrafire attempted fixes but nothing seemed to fully fix it and then one night we woke up at 3AM to the house smelling of burnt plastic and we decided enough was enough and we did not want to risk a house fire. Long story short,..Quadrafire was absolutely aweful to work with; their communication was terrible and we eventually had to get drastic to get them to take back the unit. Don't buy any of the Hearth and Home Technoligies brands,...especially Quadrafire. BTW, Hearth and Home does a great job hiding all contact information from the consumer but you can use google maps to do a search and get the phone number.
Tue, 02/12/2008 - 03:25
I purachsed a quadrafire mt vernon ae pellet stove to assisst with heating a 3600 sq ft house it has helped a great deal. I have cut my oil consumption by at least 75%. This heater is amazing wish I bought it sooner, I am finally comfortable over the cold winter months.