From a small Van Buren garage, to a full-scale showroom on the Presque Isle road, the County Stove Shop has been meeting Aroostook County’s heating needs for more than 40 years. The shop sells wood, pellet, electric and gas stoves, as well as fireplaces.
The shop also sells wood and pellet boilers, furnaces and oil/wood combinations. They also specialize in re-lining chimneys and have a “Chim-scan camera” to detect defective liners and a boom-lift to reach difficult chimneys.
Owners Wil, Sonia, and Pat Labbe, born and raised in the area, note the reason they have successfully remained in the hearth product business for so long is because they feel their experience, product knowledge and specialization provides quality service to the customers who keep coming back, since they specialize in heating only.
Attention to customer service is something the four full-time and two part-time employees take very seriously. Wil Labbe added that their serviceman is licensed by the state of Maine for oil, gas and fuel installation.
This year the business has a larger inventory of pellet stoves, wood stoves, boilers and furnaces.
“We carry low-prices, high-prices and top quality units,” said Labbe.
The County Stove Shop is carrying, among many other brands, the Quadra-fire Mt. Vernon AE, which is the most acclaimed and awarded pellet stove.
The Quadra-Fire Mt. Vernon AE burns pellets efficiently, and also burns corn, wheat, sunflower seeds, peanut hull pellets, pea pellets, switch grass pellets, and other palletized fuel. Fully automatic and thermostatically controlled, it can operate on a regular 12-volt battery.
The County Stove Shop is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday.
You can view their product lines at www.countystoveshop.com. For more information call 498-8572 or e-mail stoveshop@maine.rr.com.
“Don’t compromise. Go with the best,” said Labbe.
