The 2022/23 heating season begins!
Election Day and we decided to light the stove. Only 1 day above 60 in the forecast before November really begins. 3 pallets, 3.6 tons sitting in the garage and if last year is any indication I should be good for 24 weeks or so, to about the end of April.
BTW, my wife works at Lowes and her store just started carrying coal, not cheap but at least its available.
BTW, my wife works at Lowes and her store just started carrying coal, not cheap but at least its available.
- freetown fred
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Yep, easy for you southerners to light up this late!!!! Good to hear from ya J.
- tcalo
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I’ve been running wood through my stove occasionally to knock the chill out. Daytime temps still a bit warm here. Forecast for next week is showing much colder. I may be switching to coal soon for the season.
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I just installed my first hand fired stove this year , I Ben burning wood at night to keep the chill off . Earlier we had a few days to run it around the clock . When you switch from wood to anthracite , do you sweep your chimney and stove pipe out at all ? I have been told anthracite is the best chimney cleaner out there .
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No, I just sweep it at the end of the season. You heard right, fly ash tends to dry out whatever creosote is left behind.zachary193 wrote: ↑Thu. Nov. 10, 2022 12:38 amWhen you switch from wood to anthracite , do you sweep your chimney and stove pipe out at all ? I have been told anthracite is the best chimney cleaner out there .
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I might run maybe 2-3 cord through if that . The weather has been very mild , but that is changing next week ! So I can’t imagine there would be an awful lot of wood soot creosote
I just lit my old Wards stove today.
With how crazy oil prices are, I have no choice but to burn coal, especially when coal for the whole season will be a little more than a month of oil in the middle of winter.
Here's hoping for a warm winter to help keep costs down.
With how crazy oil prices are, I have no choice but to burn coal, especially when coal for the whole season will be a little more than a month of oil in the middle of winter.
Here's hoping for a warm winter to help keep costs down.
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I didn't know you could burn coal in an open fireplace. Doesn't it give off the carbon monoxide? I always thought you had to burn it in an enclosed stove if you did it inside....
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She's burning soft coal, otherwise known as channel coal. The coal has a lot of oil in it and they commonly burn this type of coal in their fireplaces.musikfan1968 wrote: ↑Thu. Nov. 17, 2022 8:56 pmI didn't know you could burn coal in an open fireplace. Doesn't it give off the carbon monoxide? I always thought you had to burn it in an enclosed stove if you did it inside....
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I burn anthracite coal. No smell. Ot is actually safer than burning wood. Coal rarely jumps around anf no creosote. My house is 120 yrs old. My fireplace was built to burn coal. It almost too small to burn wood. I have cut them into less than 18 inch pieces.
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I burn anthracite coal. No smell. Ot is actually safer than burning wood. Coal rarely jumps around anf no creosote. My house is 120 yrs old. My fireplace was built to burn coal. It almost too small to burn wood. I have cut them into less than 18 inch pieces.
- BunkerdCaddis
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There are a couple of threads on burning bit in fireplaces Free Burn
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If you have a basket type coal grate you can burn anthracite. We have had some members that do that. Some Victorian era fireplaces were built for it. They are smaller and narrower than a typical wood fireplace.
My neighbor's Italianate style Victorian house has a coal fireplace in the front parlor. The local coal yard and railroad siding was right across the street when the place was built in the late 1800's.
Paul
My neighbor's Italianate style Victorian house has a coal fireplace in the front parlor. The local coal yard and railroad siding was right across the street when the place was built in the late 1800's.
Paul