Help identifying my fireplace

[Lloyd_J]

Hello, I have recently moved into a older house which contains a hearth craft fireplace. I would like to know about it but cannot find much info. Are they worth very much?

 

[begreen]

It's an old Franklin style fireplace. OK for very occasional moderate size fires. But notorious for leaks and hard to control burns. Not a 24/7 heater.

 

[BrotherBart]

Usually lots of them on craigslist for a hundred or so. Montgomery Ward sold over 200,000 of them under the Hearth Craft brand. One of them to me in 1977. I paid $179 for it.

 

[BrotherBart]

Here is the 1979 recall saying to move it three feet from combustibles.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...5UtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=S6EFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2539,1854608

 

[Grisu]

Where did the pipe go? And if those pavers are the only thing between the stove and the carpet I am pretty sure you don't have enough r-value to burn in it there.

 

[BrotherBart]

Ward's install instructions recommended one foot clearance. Cooked a lot of walls. It is a wonder I didn't burn that new house down. I installed a hearth just like that pictured based on the two page manual. And allowed my "professional" installers to use single wall pipe to the sky based on the manual.

Charred the joists in the attic.

Noticed when I passed by the house a few years after I sold it that the chimney was gone.

 

[Grisu]

Noticed when I passed by the house a few years after I sold it that the chimney was gone.

With the rest of the house?