Stove boiling the water, is it ok?

Pangea

Hey all
I have a Stanley Stove with a back boiler and it is connected up to a lot of heaters in the house.

Sometimes I leave the bottom ash tray compartment opened for a while to let the fire into a blaze, after a while I can hear the water boiling like mad, and all the heaters in the house are roasting hot its great.


My question is, is it dangerous to let the water boil like this, or could it warp the stove ?
The stove is lit a lot but it never roasts the heaters unless I open it up like this or unless I put on a huge fire.

Oddly enough there are two rooms on the other side of the house that the oil heating itself barely heats, the rooms are always cold but when I open this ash compartment to let the fire into a blaze the heaters become roasting. The heaters are bleed so not sure whats causing the problem there.

Im guessing when I open the ash compartment and letting the air in that the big flame is burning away anything thats clogged and letting more heat get to the heaters but hope its safe to do this.

When I got the stove serviced a few months back aswell I noticed the next time I lit a fire all the heaters were roasting aswell.

Any tips appreciated thanks.

Dtp1979

Pangea wrote: »

Hey all
I have a Stanley Stove with a back boiler and it is connected up to a lot of heaters in the house.

Sometimes I leave the bottom ash tray compartment opened for a while to let the fire into a blaze, after a while I can hear the water boiling like mad, and all the heaters in the house are roasting hot its great.


My question is, is it dangerous to let the water boil like this, or could it warp the stove ?
The stove is lit a lot but it never roasts the heaters unless I open it up like this or unless I put on a huge fire.

Oddly enough there are two rooms on the other side of the house that the oil heating itself barely heats, the rooms are always cold but when I open this ash compartment to let the fire into a blaze the heaters become roasting. The heaters are bleed so not sure whats causing the problem there.

Im guessing when I open the ash compartment and letting the air in that the big flame is burning away anything thats clogged and letting more heat get to the heaters but hope its safe to do this.

When I got the stove serviced a few months back aswell I noticed the next time I lit a fire all the heaters were roasting aswell.

Any tips appreciated thanks.

No in a word. You're over airing the fire. It's not designed for that kind of heat.

Calahonda52

While u won't warp the stove as long as there is water in it, IMO it is extremely dangerous and irresponsible to generate boiling water in an uncontrolled environment like this.

Just supposing, one of the pipes came undone on the rads and you got near 100 degrees Centigrade water sprayed over a child or an elderly adult who couldn't move in a hurry?

What happens in the attic, does the boiling water blow back into the cold water feed tank.

Suppose something goes wrong up there and......

etc

If you google this site, for posts by a gentleman called John T. Carroll, if I recall correctly, where he describes the issues for vented heating systems such as yours.

Calahonda52

While u won't warp the stove as long as there is water in it, IMO it is extremely dangerous and irresponsible to generate boiling water in an uncontrolled environment like this.

Just supposing, one of the pipes came undone on the rads and you got near 100 degrees Centigrade water sprayed over a child or an elderly adult who couldn't move in a hurry?

What happens in the attic, does the boiling water blow back into the cold water feed tank.

Suppose something goes wrong up there and......

etc

If you google this site, for posts by a gentleman called John T. Carroll, if I recall correctly, where he describes the issues for vented heating systems such as yours.

my3cents

I would be a little concerned as to the quality of the plumbing? If the water can't circulate quick enough to prevent the water in the boiler boiling then there is either something wrong with the plumbing or the stove is being massively over fired.

I would also suspect that the firebricks won't last as long as they should and the grate will also burn out much more quickly than it should with this sort of treatment. I have also seen a good few stoves that have been warped through over firing. Two neighbors do it and their stoves often last less than 5 years before opening along the top joints, but you can't tell them.