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bug512 wrote:Just a update.. going on the third heating season with this domestic coil setup and all has been going very well. The original (free) storage tank started to leak and was replaced with a newer (craigslist special) 80 gallon tank.

If you are feeling handy and want to heat up some water then try this project.

Good luck and if you have any questions please ask.

bug512 wrote:Hello Keith, we have noticed great savings. When the stove is running this time of year the water in the storage tanks runs at 95-105, when colder outside temperatures cause the stove the stove to run more (hotter) the storage tank temperature will be around 115-125.

This makes the furnace (oil) to run less since the water going to it is that much warmer then what comes in form the city.

We use around 150 gallons of oil a year to heat our domestic hot water and heat the house in early fall and late spring when the coal stove is not running.

bug512 wrote:Keith, pick up a couple items up a month. Before you know it you will have all the parts and pieces you need. Since fin tube and pipe are copper it is very expensive right now.

What kind of coal stove do you have now ?

Gene

bug512 wrote:Keep a eye out for a used stoker stove. Just recently we installed a KAA-2 in a friends house, he then sold his 90K stoker on craigs list. It went in about five hours. I will have to get back to checking CL every so often once I educate myself more on what to get for my application.

I have oil steam heat, not that it gets used since we have the coal stove but I am thinking of replacing it with a KA-6. Oil fired boiler here with radiators throughout that only gets used in the worst cases. Wood is in use here so far this year, the pellet stoves go on-line when it gets cold. I hope to finish installing the Summit stove in the basement this weekend and start a coal fire in it Saturday.

I just dug out my oil and coal receipts from 2003, this is the first year we have paid over $1,000 for four tons of coal. It's still much cheeper then oil. In 1999 when we moved in oil averaged .80 cents a gallon, that first full year we used over $1,200 of oil. $3.65 a gallon here today if a person has to buy it, tomorrow it may change but it never changes to the consumers favor. Last year I used 6 tons of Pellets, cost me $1400.00 and at the end I was trying to keep from buying more, plus I burnt wood in the spring and fall, and still had to run the boiler once in a great while. Doing all that cut my costs in half from the previous year using only the oil boiler, so you can see why I am searching alternatives.

Best of luck with your future coal use. Thanks

Oh, it's 35 outside and 74 in my living room !!

Now your just showing off I have filled the wood stove atleast 3 times already this evening and will load it up again before going to bed, then I can wake up to a cool house .

bug512 wrote:Keith, pick up a couple items up a month. Before you know it you will have all the parts and pieces you need. Since fin tube and pipe are copper it is very expensive right now.

What kind of coal stove do you have now ?

Gene

bug512 wrote:Thanks! The December 2012 update.. Still running great 108 deg water today. The oil fired boiler barley runs.

Let me know if any of you have questions.

bug512 wrote:WOW, six people! That is a lot but I'm sure you all do not take a shower one after the other? Maybe? If so or not The capacity of the "storage tank" is 80 Gallons.

Email me when you would like to stop over. How can you not want to talk about coal stoves !

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