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Types of old wood burning stoves.
The internal design of wood stoves has changed entirely since the epa issued standards of performance for new wood stoves in 1988.
Epa s mandatory smoke emission limit for wood stoves is now 4 5 grams of smoke per hour g h under step 1 of the revised standards of performance for wood burning room heaters.
Wood stoves are used primarily for heating spaces and sometimes for cooking food.
They were capable of burning either wood or coal and their cylindrical design took up less floor space than many other models of antique stoves.
The first method of using wood to heat a space or provide heat for cooking was in fireplaces.
While stoves made for cooking as well as heating might be retrofitted to exhaust out an existing hearth and flue in the best situations they were connected by an umbilical metal stove pipe to a new kind of chimney that was smaller in flue diameter to enhance the draw for.
Wood burning stoves can help save you money on your heating bill and burning wood as a heat source can be easier on the environment than gas or coal.
Parlor stoves were also used for heating and were available in both large and small styles.
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These antique stoves were used as central heating systems in businesses and homes.
But keep in mind that the wood burning stove will need to be installed and this can add thousands of dollars to the price of the stove.
Whatever their use old stoves were designed to burn wood but after the civil war coal burning designs came on the scene.