Coalbrookdale Darby stove

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The Coalbrookdale Darby stove is a traditional fire with 2 doors -

the doors have a tracery pattern and the top of the stove has an ornate decoration.

Underneath their is a hotpplate so that you can heat drinks and food on the flat top of the stove -

the stove has a large back boiler.

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• Fabulous

  5 years ago

  We've had one of these for 22 years. It heats the whole cottage and is just fabulous!

  Stove expert replied: A long standing appliance that is still working!

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• Improved Darby

  David Schalk 7 years ago

  To add to my post of last year here is an update on improvements I made to my Coalbrookdale Darby that gives a better secondary burn. I added a one inch layer of Koa wool insulation to the top
  plate (baffle). I introduced pre-heated secondary air below the baffle. but found it did not improve the burn enough to justify the loss of space in the firebox. Next heating I intend to install 1 1/4" fire brick in place of the factory brick and line the grates with fire brick and save a space to let the ashes fall into the ash pan. With the small improvements I have made on this stove and chimney, and using well seasoned hardwood I have reduced my wood consumption from five to eight full cord per year to three to five. I live in a well insulated 2500 sq ft old farm house in up state New York where the winters can get bitterly cold and windy, My Darby is my sole heating source. as I said before I love this stove.
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• Coalbrookedale Darby boiler model

  Maurice Deegan 8 years ago

  I installed this unit in1995. It is connected to 300 lt. h/w tank with DHW coil. It has electric backup if required. The water is circulated to slab heating coils but will not heat the whole
  slab. The house is large 2 story 180m2 each level and this is our base heat supply. We do not use electric element on to the tank in winter. I modified the grate by using the coal grate bars and then laying 25mm thick fire brick on that with about 20 x 10mm holes for primary air. this greatly improved wood combustion. This heater has been very good with little maintenance.
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• Coalbrookdale Darby

  David Schalk 8 years ago

  I have used this stove for 12 years. The Darby likes to be run hot. With good gaskets and a proper drafting chimney this stove is hard to beat. When run properly and with well seasoned wood
  this stove will produce a secondary burn and emit little or no smoke. The glass will only get dirty on startup or if you let it cool down too much on re-loading (which will easily wipe away with a piece of newspaper once the stove gets back up to temperature) The way this convection stove works is great It keeps the air in the house moving to eliminate hot and cold areas. I have operated this stove from 50F to -20F and as you can see I love it. The best way to get this stove going is with a top down fire.
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• Coalbrookdale Darby

  David Schalk 8 years ago

  Forgot to mention in my review the only improvement I made to this stove is I replaced the three glass panels in each door with 1600 degree F pyro-ceramic glass and removed the metal mesh.
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• it is a great stove

  Judy Britton 8 years ago

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• beautiful, but not as efficient as newer stoves (backboiler)

  William Wells 9 years ago

  This stove has been a life saver! it really is a beautiful stove. Although... We try to run 10 radiators from the stove but struggle it's better on 5.in a large lounge it doesn't produce as
  much heat as we would like. We are currently looking to change this stove as we find that others have more modern stoves and use much less logs and warm more radiators. Approx 10 friends of ours all run stoves with back boilers, ours is the most fabulous looking but least effective, even though others have the same kw output stated ours seems to struggle much more, and we have a lot more ash left than others also. Just thought I would mention as every comment I've seen doesn't mention it struggling with heating as ours does. I will be buying a 16kw+ newer stove to help try to heat our house, lets hope I don't regret getting rid of our Darby!
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  Stove expert replied: Before purchasing a replacement ensure that you get the heating system re-calculated so that you will not be disappointed, this stove may not be large enough for the system it is supplying. If you find that the room in which the boiler is installed does not get hot enough, consider having a radiator in there for back up, have a thermostatic radiator valve on it so that it will only work when required or if the temperature in the room is not high enough. It may be worth looking at the fuel used as they vary greatly and an alternative may be more effective in producing the necessary heat. Is the chimney lined? This can make a vast difference also.

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• Coalbrookdale Darby

  Tom 9 years ago

  We have had this stove in three different houses and find it to be very comfortable to use and we love the look of it in our current 1877 home.
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