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Hi all, Im brand new to outdoor wood stoves.The home Im buying has a Heatmor 200css stove.I have a shaker grate kit only partialy installed.The blower motor I hear is bad.The aquastat in the front is Black from smoke I guess.Not sure if it works? Probably have to replace the door seal?No fire brick in it. The last person didnt use any.Not sure what that means or what to check?If you could post a couple places for parts that would help.I couldnt see parts on their home page.

Welcome to the FORUM my friend. If you could post some pix of the set up, we'd have a better idea on what thoughts to share with you. Again, welcome.

Hey all, new to the site and even worse am a first time home owner. This is going to be my first winter season , hold on it gets worse : ). i've purchased a new home in North Eastern PA, Pocono Area, 3000+square and here's the Bite, Propane energy source. Well i won't go into to much now just wanted to say this is a great site from what i've been reading the last couple of weeks. Alot of experience and knowelege, hope to learn and contribute look forward to mixing up and getting some ideas. Names : Del

Welcome to site Del, you find a wealth of information here.
This is the site that got me hooked. I'm sure many of the members on the site will be offering up some assistance.
Give us an idea of you current propane setup, are you running a Boiler to Baseboard or Forced Air Furnace. Is it new construction or an old farm house.
You have a few options, such as stove or a central heating system.

Congratulations on your new home!

Rich

Hey thanks for the Warm welcome, hope i can say the same for my first winter in PA : ) but i'll start a thread and start taking some photo's as soon as i can. Thanks Rich.

3000+square and here's the Bite, Propane energy source.

I think you can expect some very serious propane bills in the months ahead...might as well get started on considering your other options.

By the way, welcome to the forum.

very serious propane bills in the months ahead

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Unless he's the dealer

Welcome

An article by the courant.

http://articles.courant.com/2011-10-20/ ... ting-bills

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Bill, worked as a aviation tech, for 12 years general aviation, dieing industry, switched over to auto technician fulltime and counter sales in auto parts part time for many years after that. Got tired of too many hours, and shops that didn't want to pay liveable wages for good auto tech so have been content doing auto counter parts sales for past 5 years. Also won't pay someone to do what i can do, and prpobably not as well. Tired of high oil heating costs, and am converting to coal boiler heating as primary heat, oil as secondary and boost when heat load demand is higher than oal will handle at times. Also working on getting a farm up and running for beefers, and growing own vegetables and such for serious canning and preserves. Just sick and tired of the piss poor outlook suppliers have of the everyday consumers, which is more and more becoming you need us, we don't need you.

Hi,

My name is Nick aka as NG3. Grew up in western pa.and am now living in northeast ohio.I have been doing alot of reading on here and it really amazes me how much knowledge there is on this forum.Always burnt wood in the past with the exception of a few years of burning some soft coal in my Pa. farmhose.I have very much to learn and looking forward to it.Really looking forward to making some new friends. Thank You

Hi Im memco man I have an old memco wood coal boiler I used it for the first time last year, and on a cold day I thought that I was going to get hit on the head by a peice of wood being pulled through the chimney. I joined this form to learn more about burnning coal I will save the question for later

Hi, this is Pat near Binghamton, NY. After 20 years of heating our 2400 sq ft home exclusively with fuel oil, we are finally making the switch to coal. We studied all the options (indoor, outdoor, wood, coal, combo...), did months of research, enjoyed talking to all the reps at Seneca Falls Farm Days, and decided to go with the AHS coalgun boiler to tie into our existing hot water baseboard.
We have poured the footer for two new chimneys. One for the coalgun which will be installed in our garage and a new chimney to replace the existing powervent on the oil furnace. We are looking forward to be able to keep the whole house warm and use as little fuel oil as possible.
This forum has been a big help already reading all the years of experience everyone has. Can't wait for delivery day!

Sounds like you're on a roll. Welcome to the FORUM my friend--PIX, we all love pix Keep us posted on your progress.

mkapinus wrote:Hi, this is Pat near Binghamton, NY. After 20 years of heating our 2400 sq ft home exclusively with fuel oil, we are finally making the switch to coal. We studied all the options (indoor, outdoor, wood, coal, combo...), did months of research, enjoyed talking to all the reps at Seneca Falls Farm Days, and decided to go with the AHS coalgun boiler to tie into our existing hot water baseboard.
We have poured the footer for two new chimneys. One for the coalgun which will be installed in our garage and a new chimney to replace the existing powervent on the oil furnace. We are looking forward to be able to keep the whole house warm and use as little fuel oil as possible.
This forum has been a big help already reading all the years of experience everyone has. Can't wait for delivery day!

If you have the proper setup, you will only be burning fuel for an occasional "test" of the oil burner. Welcome to the forum.