Convert Coal Stove To Wood

The chimneys themselves were just brick sitting on top of dust.

Convert coal stove to wood.

Sometimes its just better to leave things alone. I had a coal stove that was like that but it was extremely small and had a hopper and a glass front. Size does not matter. To clean replace and convert.

Wood only needs primary air for combustion one source. How to turn coal burning fireplaces in an old house into wood stoves. Put wood inside instead of coal one day and see what happens. If your coal stove has grates it can burn wood.

I would not try this. Certain models of wood burning stove allow you to convert the stove to be multi fuel therefore allowing you to burn coal inside the stove as well as wood. If it is a large stove use large wood if it is a small stove then use small wood. What eliminates a coal stove from burning wood is a hopper that allows the coal to slide down into the firebox as the coal before it is consumed.

For example we can buy a multi fuel conversion kit from the manufacturer of our wood burning stove that converts the stove to be multi fuel. The brunel 1a wood stove from stovax is a franklin stove lookalike. Old house wood and coal burning fireplaces have chimneys that vent smoke and draw air through their flues which were lined with clay tiles beginning around 1905. You wouldn t convert this type of stove.