Solid-fuel stove renovation

capistrano

I have acquired an old Reginald wood-burning stove like this one, which I want to renovate. It's pretty rusty.

My plan was to use wire brushes to remove as much of the rust as possible and then paint it with black stove paint.

First of all, does this sound like a good plan?

Secondly, is this kind of stove paint generally available in hardware shops? If not, can anyone recommend a place I can get it (I'm in Dublin).

Any help at all will be appreciated.

Do-more

I'd suggest that bead blasting will be much more effective than wire brushing, someone from around Dublin can probably suggest where you could get it done at a reasonable price.

capistrano

Thanks for that.

Can anyone tell me where I can get bead blasting done in Dublin?

hannah00

As you are getting it bead blasted, you should get it powder coated as stove paint will wear off eventually with the heat. There are loads of blasters in the golden pages.

capistrano

Thanks everyone. In the end I just bought a couple of wire brush attachments for the drill and removed the rust that way and then I sprayed it with stove paint.

It looked great but unfortunately once I fired it up it transpired that it was leaking smoke from all around the seal between the top and the sides. Sitting room stinks now :-(.

So it's back in the garden now!