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Originally Posted by my83300cd
We moved into a house with a steam boiler, oil fired for the radiators, and there is also a wood/coal fired hot air furnace that will heat the first floor that I have yet to try out (want to clean the ducts first).
The bonus was the 40 50 lb bags of coal already in the basement, and I just found out a friend of mine deals coal on the side and is willing to sell me washed, bagged hard stove coal at cost.
After going through a 275 gal tank of oil in a little over 3 weeks I gotta get on that ductwork!!
I'll burn the beer off shoveling coal
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Some guys use a hot water coil thru the coal stove to heat the water before entering the boiler. Here is an excellent site for your coal burning questions:
http://nepacrossroads.com/forum-74.html