Stove cleanliness / health
- freetown fred
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- Location: Freetown,NY 13803
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
K, are you running as hard as you were 3 wks ago? Not doubtimg your situation, just curious.
- Keepaeyeonit
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- Location: Northeast Ohio.( Grand river wine country )
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- Other Heating: 49 year old oil furnace, and finally a new heat pump
Pretty much the same Fred nothing really different but I'm still baffled by this gray film low on everything even on every pair of my wife's reading glasses, but it has since stopped since I stopped using that humidifier, I just don't get it.
I was thinking the stove was leaking and during a reload the oiled coal smokes pretty bad but I'm real sure it wasn't. I'm getting ready to shut down in a week or so for the season so I will revisit this in the fall.
I was thinking the stove was leaking and during a reload the oiled coal smokes pretty bad but I'm real sure it wasn't. I'm getting ready to shut down in a week or so for the season so I will revisit this in the fall.
- freetown fred
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- Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut
Be interesting to hear what ya figure/ confirm.
- kcarr
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- Location: Quakertown, PA
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- Other Heating: Oil as back up, mostly used for summer domestic hot water
TCALO, Barry... it is the humidifiers causing the gray film on everything not the coal heat... film comes from the water. Shut down your coal unit(s) and if humidifiers are still running, you'll still have gray film and it gets all over everything. I had the same problem years ago. Handling ash tray will create a little dust but the gray film is 10X worse from the humidifiers. So no more humidifiers here. Ken