Henry B Yqm

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Lopi Stoves - Air Control Problems

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I have a Lopi 1250 Republic wood stove (SN 1118-00****) purchased from Innovations for Quality, Bellingham, WA. The stove was installed in my new home in late 2017. It draws too much air with recharge time of an hour and at best burn time max is 2 hours. The Lopi Wood Stove brochure states model 1250 burn time up to 8 hours. With prior wood stoves, when heated up and turned down to minimum air, the flames slowly dance. The Lopi flames look like they had 7 cups of coffee. The seal around the door is fine, per candle test, with excess air coming up the bottom air intake pulling out of my crawl space. The seller passed me off with a number of not correcting comments. These include: air emission requirements means you cannot throttle down, the air inlet door needs adjusting to close more (pulled apart and reset door opening to minimum without improving), that's just the way it is, etc. I have written Travis Industries (Lopi manufacturer) several times about the problem including via certified mail. They do not respond. How do I get at Lopi 1250 Republic wood stove to throttle down so to extend burn times, reduce wood consumption and not send so much heat up the chimney? The unit appears well constructed with too much air intake! Sincerely, H. W. Burwell
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Loss:
$2800

Preferred solution: Let the company propose a solution

User's recommendation: Do not purchase a Lopi 1250 wood stove.