Okay crew I'll like your input, ideas, suggestions, what to do, what NOT to do etc... on a possible project. In our kitchen we have a bread oven. It's 30 1/2" across by 30 1/2" deep and 29" high at the peak. We never used it. Needs fire brick replaced and some TLC. My wife asked if we could somehow get it working and use it to help heat the kitchen and add to the atmosphere. Hmmm I thought, is this a trap?!. I wanted to do something with this when I first saw it. So I'm jumping on this before she changes her mind. Our kitchen gets very little heat from the woodstove. We have a spiral staircase in the room with the stove and the heat gets sucked up stairs. Which is ok, we want that but also want some wood heat in kitchen. I tried moving air from the kitchen to stove room (which is right next to it) from the floor and higher up. Doesn't do anything. I rather not use the bread oven area open like it is. I would think that would make a heck of a mess. Ideally I would like whatever is there to heat the kitchen, but also maybe I could cook with it somehow, just in case the power goes out, but also just to do it. If the kitchen is warm, Im sure the upstairs bathroom and 1 bedroom will also get warmer. Originally this part of the house was just one floor and someone added an upstairs. (With no duct work) Appreciate the ideas.
A small coal stove that will fit those dimensions.Coal burns hot and long.Of course seal around the stove pipe.
I can't really pontificate too much because it's a little tricky to estimate the dimensions. My fear for you would be that the juice wouldn't be worth the squeeze with running a pipe and having another flue to clean, but if you're heart is set on it have you checked out those cubic mini stoves / or any of the "dwarf" stoves?
I think you'd have a hard time baking bread in that thing. A real oven would have a small opening and a big dome inside. Yours would be good for a swinging hanger and a big cast iron pot like for making a witches brew. I bet you could find a cast iron fireplace door setup that they used to have on small fireplaces in old Victorian style houses if you want to use it to heat a little.
