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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / Ridge woods fix for cracks

« on: November 11, 2016, 08:25:09 PM »

Wondering if any one has tryed ridgewoods fix for cracks or what ever ones thoughts are on it will workI havnt had a problem yet but with my luck I will

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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / temp probe

« on: February 12, 2016, 05:36:13 PM »

Has any one changed the temp probe is it in a dry well or on the water went out to load my stove last nite and temp was jumping up and down around 5° I wanna pull it out and check it but don't want a bath of steaming hot water

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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / solenoid problems / draft door size

« on: February 09, 2016, 01:24:53 PM »

I got to thinking last night about my small draft door and got to wonder what size draft door the people had that are burning up solenoids this may help people out I'm thinking about making a linkage to open my door a little more my stove take for ever to recover my Friend has the big draft door and his takes less than 1/2 time

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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / my review of ridge wood

« on: January 16, 2016, 07:34:46 AM »

I bought a ridgewood 6000 last February it would great last year. This year I added another loop going to my garage.  My house is 1200 sf and I have a side arm on my hot water heater that's on one loop. My other loop has my 400 sf garage. After adding my garage, I had some problems and talked to Tim Ridgewood. At first he was nice but not really all that helpful. Now I have bigger problems and he will not return my calls so I got in contact with a dealer and they were very helpful and called Tim.  Tim told him he was done talking to me.  He could not make me happy.  Well let me tell you some thing... this year my stove has been a pain in my a$$.  I can't get it to work for crap, takes 4 hour to recover, and eats wood like mad, then the next day it will work great.  I don't know what is wrong with it but I sure would like to get to the bottom of it. So Tim will not talk to me and has done nothing for me.  My stove was delivered with 2 dents in it.  One on the left and one in the back.  Tim told me he was getting me new tin for it.  Guess what?  It's been a year.  Since last summer, I noticed the bracket for the solenoid was cracking along the door.  Tim told me if it got worse to let him know. He would take care of it. Well guess what?  I talked to him about it and he was an a$$ about it.  I still have the same door and around the door frame, I'm starting to get a gap around 1/4".  I talked to Tim. I felt like it should be welded before it pulled away more and cracked.  He was nice and asked me to send him pictures. I did and that was the last time I talked to him. Bottom burnt up a door solenoid and he will not return my calls.  So I google ridgewood stoves. Reviews are bad.  Craig no longer works for ridgewood and I have a feeling when craig left, so did the customer service and warranty.  I hope if you own one you have better luck than I have dealing with ridgewood.  Now that being said, when I bought my ridgewood knowing they were a small company. The crap down because of epa laws.  I know I could have fixed the stove myself if there was a problem. So I don't know if I said it or not but Tim told the dealer he could not make me happy.  I offered to weld the door frame free of charge if he was ok with it and it would not void warranty.  I did ask for a new door. Its not a hard thing to change and it's cracking and geting worse. Cracked welds are a defect.  The stove has a warranty on defects.  I got nothing from Tim. He did nothing to make me happy.  I just want my stove to work. He did tell the dealer if I brought my stove to his shop, he would give me my money back.  Every time I call to talk to him, he will not return my calls. I'm not gonna drive 6hrs for him to be bluffing.

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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / draft door size

« on: January 05, 2016, 08:33:43 PM »

To those of you having problems with recover times me and my friend order 3500 or 6000 model stoves (same stove they changed model name) last year I have had problems with recovery times and burning twice the wood he does could not figure out what was gong on we are heating the same about square footage we noticed his draft door was bigger about 1in taller and 1in wider when we ordered our stove we got forced draft kits but never used them so to simulate the better draft he gets I make a adjustable cover for the in let of the fan to damper the amount of air it could draw I did not see the need for the fan to run full blast so far it seems to have cut my wood usage in half before I did this my cycle time were between 1 and 3 hours and I could only get about 10 hours on 10 tp 12 pices of seasoned hard wood I think it was never burning hot enough to get a good heat transfer I will report back with the draft door sizes and how it's been working also I'm wonder how many people have this small door

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RidgeWood Stoves, defunct, support only / pump speed

« on: December 30, 2015, 06:58:57 PM »

Wonder what every one is runing there pump speed on