[AT] OT Heating with wood

[charlie hill]

My heater is about 25 years old but it has been used lightly and not at all 
for several years.  It is an air-tight  design and the combustion air can be 
completely shut off so that it just sits and smolders.  If I hook it back up 
I don't intend for it to ever get really hot.  When mom used it or when I 
used a similar one years ago we kept a pot of water or a tea kettle on top 
of it.  If the water was simmering it was just right.  If the kettle starts 
to whistle it's getting a bit hot.

Run like that it will keep the oil furnace from comming on except when it's 
really cold out.  That's all I want it to do.  The problem with running it 
like that is that it cooks a lot of creosote under those conditions.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] OT Heating with wood


>I had exactly the same situation several years ago with my oil burner 
>chimney - it was so bad that fumes were getting into the house and setting 
>off the smoke detectors. The local chimney sweep company suggested two 
>alternatives: 1. a flexible stainless steel liner pipe, or 2. a pumped in 
>lining. I chose the latter. What they do is stick a long fabric "sausage" 
>down the chimney from above and partially inflate it. Then they pump some 
>kind of semi-liquid down around the sausage so that it fills up the space 
>between the bricks and the sausage, inflating the sausage a little more to 
>press the material into place. After a short while the lining material has 
>hardened sufficiently to remove the sausage, and the lining is left to 
>fully harden. This method is slightly more expensive than the stainless 
>steel pipe and is guaranteed for 30 years, which is enough for me. :-)
>
> My wood burning insert sits in a fireplace with its own modern chimney. I 
> haven't used it for a couple of years, but I think that, with the high 
> fuel oil prices, I will be firing it up this winter. The problem is that 
> it is an older model, and even with the gaskets replaced, it still throws 
> out so much heat that it makes the room uncomfortable.
>
> Mike
>
> Mark Greer wrote:
>> I have a fireplace with an old brick chimney with no flue liners. There 
>> are
>> some cracks in the mortar about half way up and the PO said the fireplace
>> was not safe to use because of that. Structurally the chimney is OK - its
>> not going to fall down but I'd imagine a good hot fire could pose a fire
>> hazard for the wall the chimney is against. I wonder if a stainless liner
>> and an insert could be added to make it useable.
>> Mark
>>
>
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