Miss Daisy has turned GREEN

[ha_asfan]

Hey Chipper !!! You deserve a great stove after the ordeal you went through getting the first stove ! This one sounds like a real gem and certainly, you are going to love it ! Hope you get some photos to post soon......ENJOY !

[treatmaker]

Jenn,

There are alot of stoves in the NY,LI,Westchester area. When developers were building new homes in communities they used chambers products as a selling point. The stove that I bought was original to the house and actually hooked up to the main gas line of the house.( pipe ran from the kitchen down into the basement) The plumber that I hired was not happy, he thought he had a nice easy job. 15 minutes turned into an hour trying to find out how the piping ran. I hired this guy because he has a chambers stove too and I thought he would be sympathetic to my cause...not the case. Let's just say I won't ever use him again.

treatmaker

[berlyn]

Chipper,

[img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] She looks wonderful and well taken care of!! You could see the reflections person sitting down and take the pic!!
Can't wait for you to tell us more!!

Berlyn

[chipperhiker]

We brought our "new" stove home early Saturday monring, and I'm really excited about her.

She is lovely, and what a beautiful color! I spent all day yesterday cleaning her up and making her shine. Hopefully tonight I will be rewiring her lamp and switching it to the new back panel. It still works, and the clips are quite intact, which is nice.

Tomorrow I'll be moving on to the next level - converting to propane (this stove has differrent mixing caps than the yellow one), getting propane installed in the house, and ordering parts for a safety system.

I've decided that I'm not going the full restoration route with this stove yet. After all the waiting I've done, I just want to start cooking! I think I'll restore the yellow stove after all, once it gets warm outside. It will be good practice for my greenie. Plus, I'll have a nice backup stove to use while I pull the green one apart! Maybe someday, I'll put both in a new kitchen. Meanwhile, this is so much more fun than waiting for yellow panels to show up somewhere!

-Jenn

[RobbiQuest]

Jenn, I am SO GLAD you like the color! I am finally able to let out my breath - I've been holding it since December!!

For those who aren't familiar with the story, here's how this 'Board was able to help advise Jenn on the color: Jenn asked me if the Model C green is the same as the Model B, since she knew I had some green B panels in my garage. I didn't know, so I e-mailed Warren Roche (also a 'Board member), who has a green C at his house. He lives about 2.5 hours north of me, and bought my Model B green oven door panel several weeks prior. He confirmed they were the same green, so then I went to Lowe's (mega hardware store) and got lots of paint chip samples. I found one that was a near perfect match to the green panel in the garage, so e-mailed that name to Jenn in New York. She then went to Lowe's near her home in New York and found the same sample and took it home to see what it would look like in her kitchen. Not bad for a trans-continental effort!

The only downside to the story is that poor Warren dropped the oven panel when he went to compare it to the stove and chipped the panel. (oh, man!!) So if anyone knows of a green oven door panel, Warren could use it.

t.

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[ha_asfan]

Hey Chip !!! Congrats on getting the stove ! I'll bet you'll be cooking up trail goodies in no time at all ! Enjoy !

[berlyn]

Chipper,
You're going to be so excited to start cooking the Chambers way.
Let us know how it goes.

Berlyn

[chipperhiker]

Thanks for all the good wishes everybody. My saga is probably getting old, but I'm finally on my way!!

Tura, the color is even nicer than I had hoped, and I thought the paint chips were pretty! It is lighter than I expected, simply because the paint chips are matte, and the porcelain is glossy and reflects light. I really like it. Thanks again.

As for Warren's poor stove, if he doesn't mind the shipping, Paul at Central Range in Bayside, NY actually split up a whole set of green panels to sell me my backsplash. His number is 718-776-4800.

-Jenn