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mstrbill
mstrbill Member Posts: 37
in THE MAIN WALL

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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 15,520
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    Not unusual. What a beast. Probably from the 1920s or earlier
  • EdTheHeaterMan
    EdTheHeaterMan Member Posts: 7,834
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    This way the fire is up where the original Dead Man designed it to be when it was hand fired with coal. I must have completed fifty of those “Fire Thru The Door” jobs in my career. My last one was in Sea Isle City NJ in 2018. the homeowner had a house on the Bay with boat slips and everything. Every 5 to 10 years or so the homeowner would pull the oil burner out of the furnace and place it on a table next to her furnace (that looked just like that) when a hurricane would cause the basement to flood. After the water receded the oil company would come and re-install the burner. When I suggested the burner in the door idea, she loved it.

    By the way, That job, using her existing Beckett burner, saved her about 15% on fuel the following winter. You gotta put the fire where it is supposed to be… not in the ashpit!
    Edward F Young. Retired HVAC ContractorSpecialized in Residential Oil Burner and Hydronics
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