Recent Posts

• Working in Isolation 3/30/2020
•  Exceeding 2020 EPA Standards Since 1995! 2/07/2020
• Customer Images Keep Rolling In! 1/21/2020
•  Customer Installations! 1/9/2020
•  And the Free Stove Winner Is... 12/31/19
•  What a Hybrid Wood Fire Looks Like! 11/27/19
• A (Palladian) Phoenix Rises: The Restoration of a Damaged Palladian Wood Stove 6/19/19
• New Product Development - Custom Architectural Steel? 4/18/19
• Stove Stories: Navajo Dual Fuel Hybrid & Survival Hybrid Wood Stove 3/11/19
  
•  February Steal YOUR HEART IS IN MY HEART 02/12/19
• Hot Buzz in the Summertime  07/06/18
• Hot Diggity 06/08/18
• Harmony and Balance 05/10/18
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• Arbor Day!  04/10/18
• News Update: Navajo Stove Project 04/04/18
• Luck of the Irish 03/10/18
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• Federal Tax Credit Instated for 2017  2/14/18
• It's Seed Catalogue Time! 02/09/18
• Photos of our Newest Survival Stove 01/19/18

Working in Isolation

We have a small number of employees at work every day (because we have to issue paychecks, keep up with all the various state and federal requirements for employee leave, answer questions, and keep the loading docks open for shipments in and out).  When we’re not  busy with essential tasks, we have replaced all the lights in the laser cutting area with LEDs, and we have started to assemble a new paint booth (see photos below).

We’ve also worked on a new damper system for the Progress Hybrid, which we will show in the coming days.  Yes, it will retrofit existing stoves, so stay tuned.

LED bulb installation in the laser area 

Installation of our new paint booth

Exceeding 2020 EPA Standards Since 1995!

While other manufacturers are struggling to certify stoves to the EPA 2020 standards, the wood stoves we’ve been producing since 1995 have been exceeding the new, stricter wood stove standard!

For the last 25 years we have been building and selling the cleanest stoves in the United States!

Customer Images Keep Rolling In!

With the recent cold snap, we are getting more and more images of our beautiful, high efficiency stoves from customers in different parts of the country. Below are a few of our newest images, and we're sure more will be coming!

Customer Installations!

Customers have been submitting some wonderful installation images of and comments about their Woodstock Soapstone stoves recently, and we wanted to share a few of them here on our blog. 

This group is a nice representation showing one of our newer wood stoves, the Progress Hybrid, our largest gas stove, the Fireside Franklin, as well as one of our original models, the Fireview/Model 201 (built before 1996). Enjoy!

And the Free Stove Winner Is...

A big congratulations to Joyce Cooper, the winner of our Free Survival Hybrid Wood Stove giveaway! Joyce's name and email were picked at random at noon on December 31, 2019, and Joyce was notified immediately by email.

Joyce called right away both excited and surprised that she actually won! Turns out that Joyce has been looking at our Cottage Franklin Gas Stove to install in a home she is just starting to build in NH! Of course we wanted Joyce to have the stove that would make the most sense for her and her family, so we applied the full price of the Survival Hybrid as a credit to the SALE price of the Cottage Franklin Gas Stove. A win for everyone!

And a big thank you to Joyce for sending such a great photo!

Winner of our FREE STOVE Giveaway!

What a Hybrid Wood Fire Looks Like!

Woodstock introduced the first hybrid wood stove
in the USA in 2011

The pictures of a Progress Hybrid below just came in last week from a new customer in Pennsylvania.  The pictures show one thing that many of our customers like about our hybrid stoves - there’s a lot of flame activity, especially at the top of the firebox where secondary combustion occurs.  The flame activity can be quite mesmerizing, and can also be adjusted by changing the amount of air feeding the fire.

Hybrid Secondary Combustion Flames:  they occur at the top of the firebox, where we introduce combustion air to ignite exhaust gasses.

A (Palladian) Phoenix Rises: The Restoration of a Damaged Palladian Wood Stove

Condition of Palladian in need of refurbishment

  We have restored many stoves for customers who lost their homes, and most of their possesions, to floods, hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires. Sometimes the only thing left standing after these disasters was our customer’s Woodstock Soapstone stove. Many of these stoves make their way back to our factory to be restored.  For our customers, the stove may be the only surviving item from their “pre-disaster” life.   

  Our stove builders have yet to encounter a stove that could not be fully refurbished. In the next couple of pages, we’ll highlight some of the refurbishment stages that the 15 year old Palladian (pictured above) went through to get it back in “Like New” condition.  This stove survived a house fire (not related to the stove) and then sat in a barn for three years.  It arrived with lots of rust, and not in usable condition. 

  The first step in the restoration process is the initial assessment to determine what parts need replacing, how much labor will be involved, and what the customer’s expectations are.

New Product Development -Custom Architectural Steel?

If you’ve ever come across a beautiful metal cut gate, a privacy screen, metal wall art, or CortenTM siding in an architectural magazine or online, you may have thought briefly of wanting to incorporate something similar into your own home. Likely, your consideration of architectural metal stopped there.

Stove Stories: Navajo Dual Fuel Hybrid & Survival Hybrid Wood Stove

Navajo Dual-Fuel Hybrid Stove & Survival Hybrid Wood Stove A Story of Great Challenge & Reward

The story of Navajo & Survival Hybrid stoves had a fascinating start with the design and development of a clean burning, small, dual fuel stove for use on the Navajo Nation at the Four Corners of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado & Utah.

Making the “impossible”, possible!

Navajo Stove Installed in
Beta Testers Home

In 2016, the US EPA approached Woodstock Soapstone Co., to ask if we would be interested in designing a clean burning stove capable of burning both wood and coal. The design would be used on the Navajo Nation Reservation, as part of a consent decree with Arizona Public Service & Southern California Edison for violations to the clean air act.  The settlement had designated funds for a stove change-out and weatherization program near the Four Corners region. This is a region where indoor and outdoor air quality is often quite poor, and a significant number of Navajo people suffer from respiratory and cardiovascular diseases as a direct result.

The obvious hurdles, and what other manufacturers deemed impossible, was engineering a low cost stove that could burn both wood and sub-bitumious coal cleanly.  In fact, there were no EPA certified coal stoves in 2016, and a coal testing standard had never been developed,  these were a testament to the fact that it would be a challenging task.