Older Comforter Stove

[mkoons]

My neighbor has an older lovely Comforter Stove which I really like and am looking for a stove to heat about 1200 square feet in Northern PA. I have a chance to buy a nice Comforter which just would need some paint. Looking for input as to is the stove relatively efficient for its age(should I spend $300) on it and what should I do to clean up the minor rust and paint. I'm brandy new to the forum but have been burning an older BV4000 Earthstove for 8 years......
Thanks
Mike

 

[nhimack]

my neighbor is selling me a comforter built in 1976 for 100, it sounds like it is in the same shape as the one you may be buying. He said his dad heated the house with it. it is in good shape except for some paint on top. of course the wife will make me paint it black and she wasnt thrilled with the baby blue color LOL

 

[begreen]

About $100-$150 sounds ok. More than that and one has to be looking at the tax credit on a new EPA stove like the Englander 13NC. It will burn less wood and cleaner.

 

[nhimack]

About $100-$150 sounds ok. More than that and one has to be looking at the tax credit on a new EPA stove like the Englander 13NC. It will burn less wood and cleaner.

My offer was 100.00, tax credits are great but usually so small a percent of the purchase, tax credit at the state level too. I dont have the bucks for a newI'll be using it in my kitchen as a second stove. The house is an 1840 farm house (cape). With the barn connector, dining room and kitchen, done at a later date mid 1900's when aluminum foil under the siding was considered an insulator(doh), "this old money pit" . I it also comes with all the coal burning add on parts. my other stove is a VC vigilant multi-fuel and i used multiple fuels last winter. The VC works good but none of the heat makes it down that end of the house.

 

[lexybird]

About $100-$150 sounds ok. More than that and one has to be looking at the tax credit on a new EPA stove like the Englander 13NC. It will burn less wood and cleaner.

exactly what i was thinking ,in fact i was out earlier tonight and i saw a brand new NC13 on sale at lowes for $729