Kind of a question for the collective............
My little one has been enjoying bathing in front of the wood stove for the past few years. We have a small copper tub that hangs on the wall, I just get it down and fill it and away she goes! Draining is a slight pain but I use a plastic jug and make trips to the sink......it works great.
My wife is wanting in on this action and we now have brought our full sized claw-foot tub into our spare bedroom where I have set up a temporary drain and I fill with a garden hose to the nearby laundry water supply. Now she asks...........can I heat water on the stove for my baths? Then she hands me 2, 5 gallon lobster pots for water heating duty on the stove top.
Well, it goes like this...........it worked well after 10 hours on the stove I produced about 10 gallons of piping hot water that made for about 80% of what is needed for a nice big hot tub. That saved my electric water heating a good bit
My problem...........was the weight of 10 gallons of water sitting on my stovetop going to do damage to the frame or stones on the stove? The owners manual says it's ok to cook there but gives no information about loading the stovetop. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that a full grown man could dance a jig on top of this stove and not hurt it so what is 80lbs of water going to do?
Is there testing done in the lab during design? Is there anticipation that these units will be used for this kind of thing during an extended power outage or should all services fail and we are forced to use our stoves for more than just space heating?..........What if there are zombies?
Been watching The Walking Dead a lot this weekend!
My little one has been enjoying bathing in front of the wood stove for the past few years. We have a small copper tub that hangs on the wall, I just get it down and fill it and away she goes! Draining is a slight pain but I use a plastic jug and make trips to the sink......it works great.
My wife is wanting in on this action and we now have brought our full sized claw-foot tub into our spare bedroom where I have set up a temporary drain and I fill with a garden hose to the nearby laundry water supply. Now she asks...........can I heat water on the stove for my baths? Then she hands me 2, 5 gallon lobster pots for water heating duty on the stove top.
Well, it goes like this...........it worked well after 10 hours on the stove I produced about 10 gallons of piping hot water that made for about 80% of what is needed for a nice big hot tub. That saved my electric water heating a good bit
My problem...........was the weight of 10 gallons of water sitting on my stovetop going to do damage to the frame or stones on the stove? The owners manual says it's ok to cook there but gives no information about loading the stovetop. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest that a full grown man could dance a jig on top of this stove and not hurt it so what is 80lbs of water going to do?
Is there testing done in the lab during design? Is there anticipation that these units will be used for this kind of thing during an extended power outage or should all services fail and we are forced to use our stoves for more than just space heating?..........What if there are zombies?
Been watching The Walking Dead a lot this weekend!
