Just drove up to Lebanon NH to check them out and was able to tour the factory.

Thank you for a great video on this wonderful stove! I've seen alot of home videos on this stove that don't instruct properly. I've owned my Woodstock Soapstone Fireview for 20+ years and have never been sorry.

I have been running a fireview for 26 years. It has been a great stove. I have replaced the gaskets only 2 times and at least 5 converters, the fire shield that protects the converter once, the original was cast iron. Lots of the time you will see no fire at all in the stove but if you look up at the converter it will be glowing red and top of stove will be around 400+. Happy heating

I’m going to be doing this next week ! Great video

I cant wait to start my wood stove up! Ive made one fire so far this year, and were in a heatwave right now

Keep in mind that a lot of the temp drop that occurs after engaging the cat on a stove like this is simply because the exhaust is taking a longer path across more material to sink heat into. As long as there are visible flames in the firebox, the bulk of combustion is still from flames and the cat is simply providing minor exhaust cleanup. When choked down enough that ALL of the combustion is moved to the cat, and you're no longer using flames down in the box to combust the wood gases, you'll likely observe a rise in EGT's, as the combustion is all taking place up near the stove pipe rather than throughout the system. I recommend single wall stove pipes for this type of system as that provides a way to capture more of that combustion heat that is near the "end" of the path back into the house. Modern "hybrid" stoves attempt to perform the majority of combustion using flames down in the firebox, either primary or secondary, and then use the catalysts to clean up the exhaust slightly while that is occurring. In the Hybrid systems the only time the cat is carrying the bulk of wood gas combustion is near the end of the wood gas part of a burn cycle, when there is no longer enough wood gases being released to support a continuous flame in the firebox, but still plenty for the catalyst to process.

why isnt everything pre seasoned?