Repairing bricks in oil/wood combo furnace?

[celfan]

The lower level bricks in my firebox are cracking. The top level is ok and I had the rest of the furnace inspected for cracks. I use 80 percent oil and twenty percent wood. I haven't really explored how I would get them out, but ordering replacements from the furnace company would be hundreds because of the extreme shipping weight. Money's tight and I came across this product. What do you think?

You're looking at ashes at the base, not crumbling masonry.

http://alamomasonryrepair.com/Products/FireBoxRepairKit.htm

Here's my box

 

[Boilerman2]

$75 seems a lot to pay for a tub of Fire Cement and some basic tools!!!
I'd have a look in your local builders merchant (shed in US Speak!)

Looking at the Combustion lining in your furnace, I don't think that a patch job would be very sucessful, those linings look pretty shot

I would advise replacement of the combustion linings.

 

[celfan]

$75 seems a lot to pay for a tub of Fire Cement and some basic tools!!!
I'd have a look in your local builders merchant (shed in US Speak!)

Looking at the Combustion lining in your furnace, I don't think that a patch job would be very sucessful, those linings look pretty shot

I would advise replacement of the combustion linings.

I dont know what a shed is

but your advice is well taken. Thanks Boiler.

 

[Agile]

A "shed" might be a DIY hardware store!

We are in Tony Blair's England where the queen lives here in london.

Tony

 

[Nige F]

Home Depot = Shed . Tho` probably Buck House ( Buckingham Palace ) would fit inside one of your Home Depots

 

[Nige F]

Here's my box

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You can`t say that over here , Neither can you mention Fanny F-a- n- n-y even if it is a Girl`s name

 

[celfan]

Here's my box

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You can`t say that over here , Neither can you mention **** F-a- n- n-y even if it is a Girl`s name

And to make it worse... large chain stores stores like Home Depot, because of their plain rectangular appearance, are referred to as "box stores".

Subtle differences I guess, like when you guys come over here and point with your middle fingers

Again, thanks for the help.

 

[CortinaV8]

Here's my box

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You can`t say that over here , Neither can you mention **** F-a- n- n-y even if it is a Girl`s name

And to make it worse... large chain stores stores like Home Depot, because of their plain rectangular appearance, are referred to as "box stores".

Subtle differences I guess, like when you guys come over here and point with your middle fingers

Again, thanks for the help.

To pointing is deliberate, we use a different finger back home, true story.

 

[Whitespirit66]

Here's my box

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You can`t say that over here , Neither can you mention **** F-a- n- n-y even if it is a Girl`s name

Subtle differences I guess, like when you guys come over here and point with your middle fingers

A proper Englishman always uses two fingers to form a 'V'. As in a Churchill gesture, but other way around. Goes back to the battle of Agincourt.

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• Whitespirit66
• 4 Jul 2010
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The single middle finger gesture is reserved for hooligans to remind themselves of the number of brain cells that they posess!