Got another one

I was looking for a smaller stove for my two bottom rooms. I kind of have a split level home, but in reverse. My bottom two rooms are currently closed off and are used for storage and for making projects in the one room ( man cave ).
I have an trailer type oil forced hot air which is constantly running in the cold weather even when it's turned down to 40 degrees. I have been toying with the idea of heating the bottom rooms via coal stove, especially when the temp drops low like this winter.
So I went on my local Craig's list and went shopping for a reasonable priced used stove. Low and behold I came across a slightly used (only for 3 months last winter) Legacy TLC 2000 for $1500.00. I called the seller and offered them $1,000.00. The seller came back with a $1300.00 price, which I then submitted a $1200.00 counter offer. The owner took the offer and now I have two TLC 2000's. When I picked up the new /used stove, it shown very little use so for all practical reasoning I got a new stove for half price. Hell the window ain't even dirty!
I know what these stoves can do and I can really throttle my upstairs back, so for little coal and a throttled back downstairs TLC, I should be able to keep the whole house warm and not have to worry about running an oil furnace at the 40 degree setting.
Now all I have to do is set up some heat shields for closer tolerances and build myself a fire proof floor platform for the stove. I guess I'll be busy for a while.

Nice H--progress pix are required!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your Gameplan Is Sound!! You're Going To Be In Good Shape!

Having a matching pair should simplify it. Sounds like a great plan.

freetown fred wrote: ↑

Sun. Feb. 06, 2022 3:09 pm

Nice H--progress pix are required!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will get the pictures after I get the wall shields and floor shield in place.
I might be able to get by in the milder weather with using only the bottom one
I am glad that I got this unit as they are very easy to maintain.
I am going to reduce the wall clearance down to about 8" from the left side and back of stove Going to use some old metal roofing and 1 1/4" electric fence ceramic insulators for the side shields and will pour a 4'x 4' x 4" concrete slab with ceramic tiles. I might take a wall and door way out, that I had previously installed back in 2004. This will open up the area so some of the heat will come up stairs instead of lingering around the downstairs.

YEP H, you got your hands full for a while!!!

Finally got the new stove installed. No more oil furnace running, but now twice the amount of work, which I don't mind. Since I have two of these running, there is not too much differences between the setup and run of the units. We are having a warm spell and as you can see I got them throttled back a bit. These are really nice stoves, especially if you build up the back with fire brick. I got about a 15 inch bed when I bank the coal up to the rear bricks. I only feed them every 24 hours unless it's really cold out, but then I usually burn stove/egg coal.
I usually take the ashes out every other day, sometimes every third day. And I always leave a good bed of dead ash on the grates, unless it really get's cold out. Then I shake till I see a couple of hot embers in the ash pan. This always works for me.
Any ways here is my new set up with the second TLC.
That silver stuff that you see around the door handle is never seize These doors usually need a coating around the latches to make them close easily. I guess I got some extra on the door opening. Will get it off when the stove cools down.

By the way, I took out the wall structure that I put in 2004 and I bought a floor shield at Ace hardware for about $100.00 it's a 36"x 50" shield. I think it costs less than buying the building materials.
But I know that I did a no no to alot of you guy's. I have installed the stove into the same chimney as the oil furnace. But that ain't any different than what I have upstairs. And that caused me no problems for the last 40 years so I really don't see a problem here with that. By the way we have 3 co detectors up and running.

Ya done good H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

freetown fred wrote: ↑

Fri. Feb. 18, 2022 12:17 pm

Ya done good H!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Fred, we try. I do need to trim up the stove pipe a little, as it needs to be squared up. But that's a job for off season burning. For now it's ok.