So, over the last couple months, I've managed to get ahold of a new Hearthstone Heritage stove to put in my kitchen. It replaces a 1930's era wood fired cookstove, pictured below:
Information on the old stove. It's in pieces now, but I'm hoping to find a good home for it... my father might take it and rebuild it sometime. It def. needs some work to be safe to burn again.
The cookstove was in an unlined chimney that had creosote stains on the OUTSIDE of the chimney. I had it lined by Flue Season Chimney Sweeps of Andover, MA. It's a cast in place liner, using the Golden Flue system and products. Below is a picture of the former in the chimney-
I got a freebie on the hearthpad, my father's cousin had the perfect size the Heritage manual called for. Little cleanup with a wire wheel on the frame and some scrubbing on the slate and it's ready to go. Stovepipe installation went very easily. Probably too easy. Didn't have to cut any pipe, worked out just right. The horizontal run and the 90 elbow is all double wall, the rest of it is single wall. All clearances to the stove and pipe are greater than the minimums recommended.
And finally one of the very first break in fire!
So far I've burned 3 break in fires. The first one I got the stove top to 100F and let it die. Second one up to 200F for about an hour and let it die. Third one got up to 300F, held it there for maybe three hours then let it die (which took another 2 hours to stop burning, and like 9 hours to cool the stove to room temp). Still a little smell but honestly not too bad.
I'm going to burn the first fire, in earnest, tonight as it's supposed to be fairly chilly.
It's pretty wild how long the stove stays hot. Of course, I'm used to my father's cast iron VC Encore, so soapstove is def. a bit of a different animal.
The only trouble I've had is with the glass. The break in fires left some pretty tough stains on the glass. I was able to get most of it off by doing what the manual recommended, pulling the door of the hinges and letting glass cleaner sit on the glass horizontally, but it was a pain. Does this stuff burn off with a hotter fire?
Information on the old stove. It's in pieces now, but I'm hoping to find a good home for it... my father might take it and rebuild it sometime. It def. needs some work to be safe to burn again.
The cookstove was in an unlined chimney that had creosote stains on the OUTSIDE of the chimney. I had it lined by Flue Season Chimney Sweeps of Andover, MA. It's a cast in place liner, using the Golden Flue system and products. Below is a picture of the former in the chimney-
I got a freebie on the hearthpad, my father's cousin had the perfect size the Heritage manual called for. Little cleanup with a wire wheel on the frame and some scrubbing on the slate and it's ready to go. Stovepipe installation went very easily. Probably too easy. Didn't have to cut any pipe, worked out just right. The horizontal run and the 90 elbow is all double wall, the rest of it is single wall. All clearances to the stove and pipe are greater than the minimums recommended.
And finally one of the very first break in fire!
So far I've burned 3 break in fires. The first one I got the stove top to 100F and let it die. Second one up to 200F for about an hour and let it die. Third one got up to 300F, held it there for maybe three hours then let it die (which took another 2 hours to stop burning, and like 9 hours to cool the stove to room temp). Still a little smell but honestly not too bad.
I'm going to burn the first fire, in earnest, tonight as it's supposed to be fairly chilly.
It's pretty wild how long the stove stays hot. Of course, I'm used to my father's cast iron VC Encore, so soapstove is def. a bit of a different animal.
The only trouble I've had is with the glass. The break in fires left some pretty tough stains on the glass. I was able to get most of it off by doing what the manual recommended, pulling the door of the hinges and letting glass cleaner sit on the glass horizontally, but it was a pain. Does this stuff burn off with a hotter fire?
