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Re: Vermont Castings Stove
#1 · September 28, 2001, 12:08 am
Posted by: dhaley <dhaley@...>
I guess I won't have to worry that my woodcookstove is older and will only
be used when I want to bake and on REALLY COLD DAYS! Sounds like our
Vermont Castings will heat the house! I know it may sound strange but it
feels like I used to feel on Christmas eve. Like I have this big present I
get to open. I can hardly wait to light that stove! We should have the
woodcookstove in within a couple of weeks too. This stove is quite a bit
different than my Pioneer Maid I used to have. (sold the PM to pay the
mortgage when hubby was out of work for 6 months). My "new" stove is an
antique but in excellent shape. It's big though. 6 burners, has a water
jacket and water coil, warming oven, etc. It's not airtight but the lady I
bought it from said they didn't have a problem with soot in the house.
Since I was in the house and the house was built during the Civil War I
looked closely at the kitchen and she was right, though the plaster was
cracking, paint was peeling and it was obvious the room had not been painted
in 30 years, there was no obvious smoke problems. I also recently visited a
historic mansion in St. Paul where they had a stove installed and working
that looks so much like my stove. I had the pleasure of cookies baked in
the stove. I know some folks reduce the size of the fire box by adding more
stove brick in the firebox, it makes for a quicker burning fire and more
heat retention in the brick, however, the fire also quickly dies when you
are done feeding the fire while cooking. I think this may be a good option
for us because it sounds like we will not need the woodcookstove to heat.
be used when I want to bake and on REALLY COLD DAYS! Sounds like our
Vermont Castings will heat the house! I know it may sound strange but it
feels like I used to feel on Christmas eve. Like I have this big present I
get to open. I can hardly wait to light that stove! We should have the
woodcookstove in within a couple of weeks too. This stove is quite a bit
different than my Pioneer Maid I used to have. (sold the PM to pay the
mortgage when hubby was out of work for 6 months). My "new" stove is an
antique but in excellent shape. It's big though. 6 burners, has a water
jacket and water coil, warming oven, etc. It's not airtight but the lady I
bought it from said they didn't have a problem with soot in the house.
Since I was in the house and the house was built during the Civil War I
looked closely at the kitchen and she was right, though the plaster was
cracking, paint was peeling and it was obvious the room had not been painted
in 30 years, there was no obvious smoke problems. I also recently visited a
historic mansion in St. Paul where they had a stove installed and working
that looks so much like my stove. I had the pleasure of cookies baked in
the stove. I know some folks reduce the size of the fire box by adding more
stove brick in the firebox, it makes for a quicker burning fire and more
heat retention in the brick, however, the fire also quickly dies when you
are done feeding the fire while cooking. I think this may be a good option
for us because it sounds like we will not need the woodcookstove to heat.
I've loved chatting tonight. Must get to bed because I'm headed to a big
trappers store tomorrow with a car full of eager teenage boys biting at the
bit to start trapping season! Blessings...Deanna in MN