Good Deal?

[ambull01]

I know, this is my second thread in a day asking the same dumb questions. Just found this on CL. $100 for a Hearthstone stove. Figure this may compliment my tiny little insert perfectly. Fire up the insert once I get home to warm the house up a tad. Fire up the Hearthstone stove in another, more centralized room with flue going out an exterior wall. Think I read the Hearthstone stoves take a little longer to heat up but supposedly radiate/push out heat longer. Here's the add:

(broken link removed to http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/for/4776091108.html)

Looks kind of rough though.

 

[Spletz]

Looks aside, probably a good buy. I'd keep it as is if it were going in the garage. If you want it in the home though, it probably needs some sweat and cash!

 

[bholler]

that looks like it would take allot of work id keep looking personally

 

[ambull01]

Looks aside, probably a good buy. I'd keep it as is if it were going in the garage. If you want it in the home though, it probably needs some sweat and cash!

I don't really care if it looks bad to tell you the truth lol. I just want useable warmth. Used to care about appearances, fast cars, etc but I hit my 30s and don't care about that stuff anymore. Do those light colored bricks indicate over firing?

 

[bholler]

It looks like it would need allot of work to make it useable but hard to tell without actually looking at it.

 

[ambull01]

I'll see if the guy can send more pics. I can't tell where it vents. I wish I could find the post again from this site with pictures of a nice looking older Hearthstone stove.

 

[Spletz]

I don't really care if it looks bad to tell you the truth lol. I just want useable warmth. Used to care about appearances, fast cars, etc but I hit my 30s and don't care about that stuff anymore. Do those light colored bricks indicate over firing?

Honestly, I don't know. But I'd suspect cracked blocks, not dis colored if over fired.

 

[Spletz]

I'll see if the guy can send more pics. I can't tell where it vents. I wish I could find the post again from this site with pictures of a nice looking older Hearthstone stove.

https://www.hearth.com/talk/members/nvanhar.37564/

You ought search the site for Hearthstone owners like the one above I just found.

 

[ambull01]

Pic of a Hearthstone II. Man that's is a sexy looking stove lol. That would look great in my old Victorian. The doors are not the same though so I guess the CL stove is a Hearthstone I.

 

[ambull01]

https://www.hearth.com/talk/members/nvanhar.37564/

You ought search the site for Hearthstone owners like the one above I just found.

Oh nice, didn't realize you could search by members stoves.

 

[Spletz]

Oh nice, didn't realize you could search by members stoves.

Just go to the top. There's a tab to search ttl site.

 

[branchburner]

The stove looks iffy, but soapstone itself is pricy. Worst case scenario is you end up with junk stove but about $100 (or more) worth of soapstone. Ask the Rainman, even he would tell you that stove is... 'bout a hundred dollars.

 

[ambull01]

The stove looks iffy, but soapstone itself is pricy. Worst case scenario is you end up with junk stove but about $100 (or more) worth of soapstone. Ask the Rainman, even he would tell you that stove is... 'bout a hundred dollars.

Like burn your house down iffy or worth it to restore iffy? Soapstone is that expensive? Wonder if I can replace it all with cheap firebrick lol.

 

[mellow]

Have you priced Class A piping? Sounds like you're on a budget and that stuff ain't cheap. Might be putting the cart before the horse.

 

[ambull01]

Have you priced Class A piping? Sounds like you're on a budget and that stuff ain't cheap. Might be putting the cart before the horse.

Yep, on a budget this year. Should be good to go next year. Had to do a lot of work to this house already.

I need to find an adequate sized cart that will meet my needs before I settle on a horse right? Although you just reminded me of a quote from my buddy Thoreau; "The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful." I could get the cart now and figure out the horse later. I'm not going to burn wood this year anyway, aside from testing.