Hearthstone Bennington
From Hearthstone
Even on the coldest days, even in the most spacious homes… the Bennington model 8350 is sure to keep your entire home toasty warm. The largest of our cast iron woodstoves, the Bennington generates an impressive 70,000 BTUs when fully loaded, able to heat areas of up to 2,200 square feet.
With an exclusive double-wall cast iron frame and built-in rear heat shield, the Bennington’s huge firebox serves as a convection chamber that allows air to circulate within, and then return, thoroughly warmed, into the room.
The Bennington’s Non-catalytic combustion system creates more heat with less wood. And, with both front and side doors, loading the Bennington is simple. A large, self-cleaning window means you can relax and enjoy the flames for hours.
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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 want it to burn hot it is impossible to get it going wiothout cheating and allowing a door or the ash pan to be opened allowing more air into the stove. When you shut the door the stove just smolders. It is ...Overall Performance:
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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. Also the 'self cleaning' system for the front glass forces the smoke to billow into the room when you open the front doors to load it. The smole billows out because the air intake forces the air to front of the stove. I get enough heat from the stove, but ...Overall Performance:
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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 blows the doors off the VS's We throw in 3 logs around 10PM and still have a nice bed of coals at 9AM. We are toasty warm in our 1600 sq ft stone house, no storm windows yet. We spent $425 last year on ...Overall Performance:
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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 start the fire with the front doors both cracked open about 1". This provides about the same draw that the Ash Drawer door delivers without the roaring wind. The doors must remain open for a minimum of ...
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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 have used this stove for three months and the side load door has fallen off, the material used to fabricate it is sub-standard and it is very difficult to operate. It takes hours to get heat out of it. I've run it with the ...Overall Performance:
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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 getting full.
- I operate it for about 30 mins with the front doors
cracked open - otherwise it goes out.
- When you really need it to get hot, you have to
open the ...
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This is absolutely one of the worst stoves that I have ever owned. Everything has already been said about its lack of performance. The costumer service has been nonexistent and I am working hard to return this stove.Do not buy this stove.
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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 to build, there for alot of the time complete garbage stoves would just be pushed through and shipped out because their was no time to rework them.For example the guys side door falling off ...
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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 continuously for 7 days. The outside temperature this week has dropped into the teens and not much above freezing. The stove keeps my 2000 sq.ft. house at 67 to 71 degrees. The way the ash pan is designed ...Overall Performance:
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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 latch would have been better if done by a grade schooler. I would never buy another Hearthstone Stove!Overall Performance:
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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/