you can still buy coal stoves?

We burn wood in an outside burner...


oh, I was at a friend of a friends house and it had a wood burning stove as a main room center peace, it was amazing. When I have a house, I want a room like that.

 

you can still buy coal stoves?

We burn wood in an outside burner...

oh, I was at a friend of a friends house and it had a wood burning stove as a main room center peace, it was amazing. When I have a house, I want a room like that.

yeah - new ones are easily over $1000 too.... they are even included in the home efficiency tax rebate this year (the up to $1500 one) but I want it due to having a large oil tank to warm my radiators - and winter is around the corner. My house originally was made for 3 stoves 80 years ago - one hook up is still useable and ready to go. I would like to repair and get the others useable in 5-10 years. In the meantime this will cut my heating costs in 1/2 for sure just by having one good stove.

DeLorean heats his home using a nice coal stove FYI

 

The top picture looks like a Vermont Castings Defiant dual fuel model with the later coal-burning accessories....

(I have an old wood-only one from 1977.)

They'll last forever if you heat them up slowly to prevent cracking. If you get a pre-catalytic one, they were supposedly made from discarded engine blocks so they're high quality cast iron

Keep an eye out for them. This is when people start replacing them with pellet stoves...

 

We have one in our house it is amazing!

 

Going tonight to look at a possible purchase - coal stove;

Looks like a fixer upper maybe

 

I just bought a Jotul F500 wood stove. They won't deliver it until 10/01. I was surprised that they wanted $300 to get rid of my old stove for me. I declined that.

 

Nice Surdiac Gotha 713, though it looks like it needs some replacement glass. That stove should have a maximum output of 60,000 BTU on Coal. The 511 I have has been a nice unit, though I need a higher capacity unit. Seems like on a very cold day this place needs at least 100,000 BTU to get the whole place into the 80's. Insulation is not the best in a house built in 1837...

 

It's a Surdiac Gotha 715 - and I need 9 glass panels - broke 2 more getting it home 6 were already missing and 2 more are cracked - but still there. Had to lay it on the front to fit into the 9-5 Wagon - it was too tall to fit standing up. The hopper fell off it's track and hit two pains. I'll need some help getting it into the house one day - came with a bunch of bricks for the giant Slate base it came with. The guy loaded me up too with some tools - all the little corner of cast which snapped off over the years - ash can - mini-fireplace tool set on stand and more. All for $200 wasn't too bad. After-all I got $75 worth of Birthday checks to deposit so it was $125 out of pocket so far. Nice birthday gift - now to clean it all up and get it to use.

 

I saw this on another forum:

you can get fireproof glass from your local glass works company instead of ordering from the company, much less expensive and just as sturdy, for us we had to as (once again) the replacement part was not the right size so we just gave the local glass company our dimensions and told them what it was for and they gave us the right tempered glass cut to size.

clean the glass with vinegar and water and don't scratch it with abrasive things for that will weaken the glass as we found out

 

I'll tell you - 375lbs is sure heavy - I unloaded it out of the 9-5 myself and my back is still sore - I can't lay down on it yet. I'm going to locate some Advil I think. As for the glass - I'll have to call around see if they can beat $10 per. DeLorean knows an online site for parts for these units which is a plus.

http://www.stovepartsplus.com/ seems to be a source as well - might be the one DeLorean knows about.

 

This might also be a helpful forum for you called the Anthracite & Bituminous Coal Forum.

http://nepacrossroads.com/about350-15.html

 

ha ha - I just saw that googling the units name.

 

Also, its way easier to move these things if you take all the heavy cast iron crap out first, the hopper shoudl come out the front door, and so will the grates, and some other cast iron bits in that area. Shouldn't attempt to move it with those things in place.

Paul

 

Everything was out of it aside from the hopper - I couldn't figure out how to get it out the front door of the thing - not sure if it does on this one.

 

Got it all re-furbished. about $50 in chimney pipe, about $430 in stove parts (new hopper, grate, 10 glass panes, seals & gaskets....)
Total cost $680 installed