Quadra-Fire Mt Vernon AE

Review: Quadra-Fire Mt Vernon AE

Reviewed September 19, 2008 by Randy

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Quadra-Fire Mt Vernon AE
I have purchased and used several Quadra-Fire wood and pellet stoves and have recommended them to friends that have purchased them also.

My older stove works great, but I just recommended Quadra-Fire to my very elderly parents and they purchased a Mt. Vernon and it is the most unimpressive and expensive pile of crap I have ever used.

It will not heat up no matter what I do. It feeds and burns the pellets ok, but almost no heat. At best the air coming out is luke warm and feels more like a cooling fan than a heater. The outside of the stove feels cool to the touch and never warms up and radiates heat.

“technically advanced”, “comfort quiet blowers”, “providing some of the most efficient heat available” The blowers make just as much if not more noise than my 10 year old stove does and for all it technical advancements and most efficient heat available it is completely worthless as a source of heat.

Now since I recommended it to my parents, I will have to do the right thing and buy it from them and find them something that actually works.

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