used wood burning stoves phil pa area
restoring old iron stoves
another restoration
and another guide
My dad has a Franklin stove just like this one in his apartment: http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/hsh/936841542.html
Got it direct from LL Bean in '77. It cranks!
thats a honey. i wont tell the co-op board if you dont.
Eh.... he's lived in his penthouse (actually, *two* penthouse apartments, side by side) on upper West End Ave. since 1976, and it's a rental. The woodstove was a necessary item, too, because in winter the winds coming off the Hudson can be....... a bit much. No one's ever given him shit for it, though. He has the whole roof, so no one goes up there except us.
sounds nice. i hope he gets to hang on to it (the ph) as long as he wants to. in jc our condo board wouldnt allow any for insurance reasons. the rates would have gone up. when our building was reno'd they added a 6th floor. my ph shook when the wind blew hard from nor easters. it would have been nice to have the stove to supplement the electric heat. a right sized stove and install in pa would cost 4k. the carpenter recommended rebuilding an oldie. next i need to research stove cement (putty?) to reseal the bolt together stove sections. and locate a cool candidate for a rebuild. there were a bunch of nice ones on craigs list. this turkey looks fun.
Back in the 80's my best friend and I renovated my dad's place, and one of the the things we did was disassemble the stove for repainting. We used a special putty during the reassemble, but it was EXTREMELY difficult to get the parts to fit together again properly. Something to do with ambient temperature causing the metal to expand/contract. Also, my dad's building has steam heating, which is turned off at night, so it's wicked cold in the wee hours...... the stove works great when the coals are banked and the doors closed and vents adjusted, so it radiates heat most of the night.
Dad has no worries about remaining in the building for the rest of his life, either.
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- bill 11-30-2008 10:24 pm
restoring old iron stoves
- bill 11-30-2008 10:27 pm [add a comment]
another restoration
and another guide
- bill 11-30-2008 10:44 pm [add a comment]
My dad has a Franklin stove just like this one in his apartment: http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/hsh/936841542.html
Got it direct from LL Bean in '77. It cranks!
- Justin (guest) 11-30-2008 10:54 pm [add a comment]
thats a honey. i wont tell the co-op board if you dont.
- bill 11-30-2008 10:56 pm [add a comment]
Eh.... he's lived in his penthouse (actually, *two* penthouse apartments, side by side) on upper West End Ave. since 1976, and it's a rental. The woodstove was a necessary item, too, because in winter the winds coming off the Hudson can be....... a bit much. No one's ever given him shit for it, though. He has the whole roof, so no one goes up there except us.
- Justin (guest) 12-01-2008 5:16 am [add a comment]
sounds nice. i hope he gets to hang on to it (the ph) as long as he wants to. in jc our condo board wouldnt allow any for insurance reasons. the rates would have gone up. when our building was reno'd they added a 6th floor. my ph shook when the wind blew hard from nor easters. it would have been nice to have the stove to supplement the electric heat. a right sized stove and install in pa would cost 4k. the carpenter recommended rebuilding an oldie. next i need to research stove cement (putty?) to reseal the bolt together stove sections. and locate a cool candidate for a rebuild. there were a bunch of nice ones on craigs list. this turkey looks fun.
- bill 12-01-2008 12:53 pm [add a comment]
Back in the 80's my best friend and I renovated my dad's place, and one of the the things we did was disassemble the stove for repainting. We used a special putty during the reassemble, but it was EXTREMELY difficult to get the parts to fit together again properly. Something to do with ambient temperature causing the metal to expand/contract. Also, my dad's building has steam heating, which is turned off at night, so it's wicked cold in the wee hours...... the stove works great when the coals are banked and the doors closed and vents adjusted, so it radiates heat most of the night.
Dad has no worries about remaining in the building for the rest of his life, either.
- Justin (guest) 12-01-2008 4:42 pm [add a comment]