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Our Geared 2U Design Team along with all the many imaginative Ideal Steel Hybrid owners are creating stoves that are far more than just steel boxes of heat. We are “fired-up” with excitement at Woodstock Soapstone these days because things are really starting to roll with our new custom stove design..
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Check out the EPA’s new 2015 woodstove regulations and see how Woodstock Soapstone Co. “measures-up”. It’s great news!New 2015 Changes in EPA Standards for WoodstovesOn February 3, 2015 the US EPA issued new regulations covering the emissions standards for wood burning stoves. In brief, the new rul..
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We are finally building beta stoves for our next (as yet un-named) steel hybrid. This will be our third hybrid: first the Progress, then the Ideal Steel, and now a high performance woodstove with record-low emissions. The combustion system in this version has some significant innovations to lower ..
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Below is a sampling of the stoves that were completed and shipped from our factory today.
The State of Maine and Log Cabin Side Design were custom requests from our customers.
To see the designs in our online design book, click here. (More designs are added every week!)
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The Ideal Steel Hybrid has the highest efficiency of over 700 stoves
tested to EPA standards, and a low 1.0 gm/hr emissions. But the news
just gets better. When you burn cordwood in the Ideal Steel Hybrid, the
efficiency is just as high, but the emissions are even lower.
All non-catalytic sto..
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We are busy making and shipping Ideal Steel Hybrids every day!
In
fact, we've been so busy that we haven't had a chance to post all of
the new designs we've been working on in collaboration with our
customers. As we can, we will post the new design sets within our GEARED 2U Design Book.
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We’ve been spending a lot of time the last few weeks testing
our Franklin inspired steel hybrid in the lab. We hope to begin beta-testing this next new model in
the early fall. So far the results are
good.
The Ideal Steel, which goes into production in June, had the lowest high burn emissions on
re..
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The proposed new EPA regulations have prompted some attacks on catalytic
stoves and hybrid wood stoves. And even more eye opening, there have
been some unfounded and unjustifiable comments about the owners of these
stoves.
Woodstock Soapstone Company values its owners. For 36 years we have
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Greetings Folks,
My
wife and I bought a Progress Hybrid from Woodstock last fall and as we
close in on the end of our first full season using this stove, I wanted
to contact you with some feedback.
First, I cannot express in words how impressed we are with this stove.
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The IDEAL STEEL Hybrid is 30% more efficient than the average
noncatalytic stove.** This means that 30% more heat stays in your house,
rather than going up the stack. Another way of looking at it is that
with an IDEAL STEEL Hybrid (82% Efficiency) 18% of the heat produced
goes up the stack, bu..
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4/7/14
"Loaded the stove 75% full as we were headed out the door for the
hospital. Sydney was born that morning. We came home 3 days later and
still had enough coals in the IS to start a fire, easily. 56 hours
later!!!"
Doug K.
Newbury, VT..
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Firebox with Franklin front wings and ash lip. Available as box stove or Franklin. Left or right door.
When designing a new stove, we typically start out with just a box (i.e.
the “firebox”), and see if we are in the ballpark with emissions and
efficiency. This time we decided to cut the skir..
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Our petition in
support of cleaner stoves and cleaner air has reached 500 signatures in just
five days. Please click here to sign if
you haven’t already signed.
The most frequent comments that we have received by far have
been “I want to do my part to help keep the air we breathe clean.“
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The comments just keep coming... they are mostly from our owners. WHAT A GREAT GROUP OF OWNERS! Comments
are running about 80 to one in favor of our petition, and we will
answer some of the negative comments/objections (there aren’t many!) on
Monday. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who has..
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Lots of people have commented on why our petition in support of cleaner stoves and air is important to them. It's only been two days and we're getting a lot of great comments, below is a sampling of just a few. Please join us by signing our petition today!
Why is the petition to Gina McCarthy i..
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To sign our petition supporting cleaner wood stoves and cleaner air, click here.
We have listened to both sides (state air regulators and the
woodstove industry) in the debate over the new EPA regulations. We have
concluded that the new regulations are (1) the “right thing to do” because the
pub..
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Here are a few other
improvements we have made recently to the Ideal Steel Hybrid:
We cut a damper adjustment
scale in the ash lip. Lots of people
operate their stoves in a narrow range for long periods of time, and this makes
it easier to remember your best operating settings.
The andirons have..
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Basic version
The next
Gearhead Hybrid Stove is under construction right now (prototype only).
We are building a slightly smaller firebox (about 2.6 cubic feet), and
version 3.0 of our hybrid combustion design. The Ideal Steel Hybrid
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We’ve made a number of improvements to the IDEAL STEEL Hybrid over the
winter, and many were based on comments/suggestions from our beta
testers. We’ll try to cover some of the changes on this blog over the
next few weeks.
We eliminated hinges from the top. The top lid stands up in a slot, and..
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We’ve added a port for a catalytic temperature probe just above the
center of the loading door. The probes are simple bimetallic coils
attached to a stainless rod. We have been testing the bimetallic probe
against a thermocouple: it’s certainly “in the ballpark” and gives a
good idea of catal..