Life in the old boiler yet..
Life in the old boiler yet..
I don’t like seeing useful things go to waste, the scrapyard or worst still, landfill so when we started looking for a log burner for the hall I put a few feelers out and it turned out Tom had just the thing, quietly rusting in the back of his workshop. Some years earlier, he’d removed a Hunter Herald 8 from a house clearance with a view to restoring it himself but, like for all of us, life got in the way so there it stayed.
It looked largely complete so, haggling done he dropped it off at the hall ready for me to have a crack at restoring it. Long story short, it takes a long time to remove rust with an angle grinder and a wire brush so if you choose to do this yourself, give yourself a full day, plenty of energy bars and no small amount of stove paint.
The end result is definitely worth it and once the fire rope is replaced, glass cleaned up and new fire brick installed, it should be a very welcome addition to the hall, especially once the night’s start to draw in.