What’s Going On with Woodstock Soapstone?

So did you place an order? I'm sure they'll make you one...even if not currently making new ones.

 

They offered me a new one a couple weeks ago when I was in to ask about bringing my stove in for paint this summer- so it sounded like they hey can get them made.

 

Well, I again tried to order a catalyst and complete gasket kit online. Items out of stock. They took my name and credit card info and said the items would ship when available. Evidently there are a lot of new catalysts sitting in the facility but they need to have the flanges welded on.

This is a spitshow. Woodstock makes some of the most efficient, clean-burning stoves on the market and they apparently still can't get EPA certification for the Ideal Steel? A plague upon the house of every bureaucrat that has caused this mess.

 

Contacting your representatives about this is a reasonable path. You don't need to say anything about R/D affiliation- but you're a citizen trying to pay hard earned money to an American manufacturing company for a domestic good. Following this thread seems to point to Woodstock being prevented due to some kind of red tape nonsense and not anything they can control themselves.

 

Was there a red tape reason that they can't get a guy to weld on the flanges, or cut gaskets, to support their current stove owners?

 

Just supplier/import problems tariff related last year.. Cats were back ordered this time last year also, Lorrin gave me rough date I called got ordered and got 2 in August

 

Well, I didn't hassle them as they've got enough issues to deal with. Rutland and Grapho-Glas make most of the commercially-available stove gaskets so my guess is that Woodstock is buying gaskets from those two companies and cutting them to length for the Ideal Steel. We're coming to the end of burn season so it's not an emergency. I've got two lifetimes of house projects linked up so the Ideal Steel will be back of mind come summer.

 

I feel like I have spent half of this thread defending Woodstock; They are a Very small less than 25 employees manufacturing co. They Are not going to have IT specialists for website or Purchasing specialists for tariffs/govt certification..
They build thoughtfully engineered, common sense stoves to be used at an affordable price point. That burn very clean..

They operate in a niche market, if not in your niche don’t buy one

 

Hear, hear!