Coal safety!

lowfog01 wrote:

grumpy wrote:Where does one get a 50 Lb bag of Sodium Bicarbonate?

II never did find a 50 lb bag of baking soda but I got a 10 lb bag at Costco. Personally, I think 50 lbs for my Harmon Hand fired stove would be over kill; 10 lbs and cutting the air off should do it for me. I think you could probably find the larger bags on the internet. Fire fighting professionals apparently use them to put out chimney fires by dropping them down the chimney. Just do a search on fire safety equipment or the like, hopefully, something will pop up. Good luck, Lisa

Sodium Bicarbonate = Alkalinity Up = Baking Soda
Sodium Carbonate = PH Up = Soda Ash

Try 25lbs bags from Dohenys waterworld.

Make sure you read the ingredient , both will raise ph and alk but at different rates and ratios.
Therefore pool supplies will sell them interchangebly to the untrained consumer.

Soda ash raises TA and PH fast.
Baking soda raises PH slightly and TA fast.
Borax raises ph with slow raise in TA.
Airaiting raises Ph and lowers Ta based on starting ph.

a few suppliers.
SwimNSave has it the cheapest and I think you qualify for free shipping total price 35$ and change.
Interestingly enough they have the right chemical name but wrong picture of the bag, I would call and make sure it's sodium bicarbonate (baking soda)

http://www.swimnsaveusa.com/product653.html#653
http://www.food4celiacs.com/ShopOnline/215/215FMC.html
http://www.food4celiacs.com/ShopOnline/SOL/index.html
http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/bakingsoda50lb.aspx
http://www.recsupply.com/eSource/ecom/e ... CAR50.aspx
http://www.amazon.com/Bucket-Sodium-Bic ... B003EE8LDC
http://www.soapgoods.com/Baking-Soda-So ... p-587.html

Can anyone give me some direction?
Can you have too much draft?

If you do get a sulfur smell in the house, but it is only occasionally and seems to happen when the coal is not feeding properly and the unit is running a long time what could be the cause? This is our 3rd winter with the stove, but this is the first time we've had a problem. This summer was the first time we ran it all year for hot water and it kept shutting down on us. The first time it shut down the gaskets loosened up and water was running all over.

Does anyone know anyone that is reasonable to come look at it for me? I don't have the most confidence in the guy that gets sent out when I call the company that installed it. We are in NW Lehigh County and have a Keystoker (sorry don't remember the model)