I never quite liked the one that we had (in our big great-room stove - not quite the right shape from the very beginning), it now has a huge hole in the middle, and it was way past time to replace it.
Searching the web - often - becomes synonymous with RE-searching...ie. a pun: "researching"
If found a model that looked like "the best possible production cast-iron grate for my particular needs", eventually figured out who ACTUALLY manufactures it, RE-searched under the MANUFACTURER's name/model number, found a bunch for c. $120, and then for $85, and then ONE place that has it for only $52 SHIPPING INCLUDED. (Take my word for it: It's HEAVY, so shipping cost them pretty good.)
The company from which I bought it has a TERRIBLE review score, but MOST of the bad reviews - after reading a bunch of them, and just as with a very large percentage of consumers - are petty and idiotic.
...so I ordered it two days ago (stores all over the country...flagship store is up on I-57 - somewhere between Effingham and Urbana, but - curiously - it shipped out of a place just off I-24 and only just a bit west of Chattanooga.
It arrived today (a scant two days after ordering it), and the GRATE is GREAT.
F--- "Review Scores"...I suspect that a VERY LOW percentage of people - who get exactly what they hoped to receive, and quickly - never bother to review, and that the petty/idiotic peeps (who are never satisfied with anything) surely represent the largest single type of reviewers of most everything.
bloke "I suppose I'll go to the trouble (though a nuisance) to go give them a sterling review."
