- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
lester holmes
on December 01, 2011
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I cant get the side door to work properly. The latch and handle don’t seal, and I can’t regulate heat right. It gets too much air because the seals are not tight. I have had only...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Rob Lane
on November 01, 2011
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I agree that customer support is non-existant. I had a minor problem and the place I bought it from didn’t have a clue how to help. When I contacted Hearthstone they basically ignored me. I...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Warm in WI
on September 26, 2011
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The stove is a great stove… if you know how to use it. This isn’t your old stove from the 60’s full of air leaks and poor heating performance, remember how much wood you had to...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Marc
on August 07, 2011
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I do agree with “some” of the negative reviews but I do love this stove. What I don’t like about this stove – It does take a while for the stove to get going. I will...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Rob
on June 21, 2011
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This stove heated the crap out of my basement! No complaints.
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Wanda Lee
on December 01, 2010
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Like many of you I have burned with wood for over 40 years and have never had a problem until I got my new Bennington stove. I had a hard time starting a fire and to keep it going you had to...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Mat
on November 14, 2010
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This was our first wood stove (2008) and we think it’s pretty good. Our heating bill for the whole winter is $200 (for 5 months) now, which is about 30% of what it was when we just used...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
ben
on October 25, 2010
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Sadly Im not satisfied. The air intake does not provide a controlled amount of air. Hard to start hard to regulate. My baffle support fell down from somewhere 2 months after I bought it. 5 years...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Maria
on March 05, 2010
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Customer serives is the worst of any company you will ever do business with. I do not recommed this stove to anyone/
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
unhappy customer
on February 17, 2010
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I have the Heritage model stove & after 3 years the front door will no longer stay closed. Needs a cast iron frame kit. The customer service at Hearthstone is non existent. The design of the door...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
donintexas
on January 11, 2010
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This is my first year using the Hearthstone Bennington. The stove is a beautiful piece of art. I am writing this after starting about 10 fires in it and the current fire has been going for...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
FORMER HEATHSTONE EMPLOYEE
on June 05, 2009
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As a former employee who dealt with finishing and packaging, i can tell by some of the reviews that some people have just received crap-lousy builds. The Bennington was one of the most difficult...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
stepwill47
on January 01, 2009
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This is only our second woodstove – so I’m no expert. But the previous reviewers are correct:-
– The air control valve is almost useless, especially
when the ash pan is...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
tdonahueMaine
on December 31, 2008
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Don’t believe the hipe about this stove. I’ve been using wood stoves of many types since the 60’s and the quality of this stove is very poor – scary, in fact. I...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Stephen Avis
on December 18, 2008
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The Bennington took some time to get used to. All of the comments above are correct but once you determine a pattern for fire building and stick with it, it’s simple.
I now...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
erinron
on October 27, 2008
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We bought our Bennington used 2 years ago to put in a house we were (are) renovating. Previously we had a Vermont Castings Vigilant and then a Defiant Encore (time span of 25 years). This stove...
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
wraffeldt@hotmail.com
on March 09, 2008
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TWO MAJOR complaints on this stove….. As mentioned in the previous post, you can not get a real flame unless the ash pan door is open....
- Hearthstone Bennington
- Reviewed and rated by
Jerald RAppleyea
on January 26, 2008
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Don’t buy this stove. It is extremely difficult to operate. We have burned wood for over 25 years and never had problems until we purchased this stove. It has a mind of its own, when you...
