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