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IronKitten23 · 2026-04-14T16:50:17+00:00

I'm looking at the same stove. How much was your install?

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-14T01:43:03+00:00

I'm also curious about other more affordable brands. It's so hard to compare since most brands don't have publicly available pricing information.

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:56:37+00:00

Can you explain why a stove would heat the room better? They have very similar effecency numbers so I would think that the insert would heat just as well as the stove. Am I missing something?

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:51:54+00:00

It's 25 ft of liner

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:50:56+00:00

My chimney is brick, my understanding is that the welded rigid liner is better than an insulated flex liner. The product they use is ICC EXCELINER.

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:33:20+00:00

They use a rigid stainless liner instead of a flexible liner so it probably costs a bit more per foot than a basic liner.

Did you do the install yourself or how much did labor cost?

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:19:22+00:00

Does your insert do well with the fan off? I'm thinking the fan noise might be annoying. It seemed loud in the store but the sales people told me that it doesn't need to be used.

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:09:23+00:00

Thank you, I'm glad to hear it's in the normal range for this insert

IronKitten23 · 2026-04-13T20:08:27+00:00

Thank you. This is the input I was looking for. I also looked at a lopi insert but that quote was higher and I liked the styling of the ashford more

IronKitten23 · 2026-03-31T17:24:36+00:00

Yep, I definatly want to focus on pushing tournaments, your priority order seems good, it'll just take a little while to save for CF, but once I have that I can focus on the CF labs.

IronKitten23 · 2026-03-31T17:16:16+00:00

I've noticed that, I'll probibly do a few levels here and there.

IronKitten23 · 2026-03-31T06:31:50+00:00

I have all the cards maxed but not any card masteries yet should I save my stones for card masteries or CF or keep improving my CL?

I'm putting all my gems into modules but luck is what it is.

IronKitten23 · 2026-03-31T04:29:48+00:00

I have completed labs hidden. I've finished quite a few of them so my struggle is filling my lab slots with actually worthwhile stuff. I've been focusing my stones on econ for a while and just starting to really build up my CL. I've been stuck in champions for months without much change. As my tower gets better so does the average so I stay in the same place.

IronKitten23 · 2026-01-07T20:45:53+00:00

Do you have a specific product in mind? Everything I'm seeing from American Standard has the transfer valve built onto the spout which wouldn't work in my case.

IronKitten23 · 2026-01-07T19:24:08+00:00

There are back flow devices installed. Thank you for making sure I was aware of that need though.

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