Moving the Woodstock Soapstone Ideal Steel to the Hearth - Disassembly to Lighten the Load!
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The Ideal Steel wood stove with soapstone liner and side panels weighs around 600 pounds fully assembled. In this video, I show removing all easily removable components from the stove, including the top, side panels, ash grate, fire bricks, door, andirons, and ash pan. Removing the weight lightens the stove such that moving it through the house to the hearth is a little easier. Furniture sliders helped make it happen!
Needed a furniture dolly to get mine in the house and two friends but once it was on the tiled floor I was able to slide it around by myself!
Thanks for all of your videos on the stove! I'm highly leaning towards the ideal steel but a little concerned with moving it around myself at such a hefty weight so it's nice to see that it's pretty easy to shed some of that weight. Approximately how much weight do you think is easily removable and would you say that it makes a significant difference getting all of that off? I have some steps to take it down to get to my hearth and one thing holding me back from the ideal steel is needing to move the stove whereas if I buy from a local seller I can get them to arrange all transport but then would miss out on the stove I really want. Thanks again for all the insight you've provided on your stove journey!
You can take out more weight than I did. I think I shed 100lb anyway with what I took off. If you took out the soapstone liner in the firebox that would make things even lighter. Plus you could pull out the “sled” for the catalyst and shed weight from that too. I’d guess you can get it down to 450lb, but probably not too much less. I couldn’t have done stairs with it, but I did get it up the thickness of brick and onto the hearth myself…
@@ProductiveRecreationThanks, yeah I'd definitely be planning on getting some other help and using some sort of appliance dolly to help with the stairs but good to know that it would be a bit more reasonable than 600+lbs
Just what I needed just got mine yesterday was wondering how am I going to get it in lol 👍👍
Yeah it’s definitely a beast. Great stove though. I got mine from my truck in the door with a tractor…
I really appreciate your video here. I have the same stove and want to move it about 10 inches, but can not make it budge. The thing weighs 620 lbs. Once you got all that off, how did you get your furniture sliders underneath it? Or did you already have them under that pallet? I will remove as much weight as I can, following your video, and see if I can budge it. BTW, you've made a great purchase. Now that it's winter, how do you like it? I think the more of we owners tell folks about this stove, the better, because Woodstock company does not do this stove justice in how they advertise it. When I was deciding on what new stove to purchase, I heavily relied on owner reviews, instead of what companies said about their stoves because I trust owners a lot more to tell us the truth about how their stoves work.
I watched your videos on the stove before buying it. Real world experience of users, price point, and local manufacturer (I'm in NH) helped sway me. It is definitely a heavy stove. I got the sliders under the pallet when I slid the pallet off the tractor and through the door. I moved it on the pallet all the way to the hearth, then shimmied the stove one side at a time onto the hearth. A second person would have been tremendously helpful. While I could just get a leg of the stove up, I couldn't hold it and put a slider under very well. To make the stove even lighter you could also take out the soapstone liner stones. Woodstock has a video on their channel about how to reinstall them - I assume removal is just the reverse. They told me if I didn't have to do that, then don't because it can be a pain to put them back in. You could also consider removing the "sled" that holds the combustor - there are instructions for that on the Woodstock website as well - they sell the "sled" as a replacement part. Best thing might be removing everything you can from the stove, then seeing if a friend or neighbor can help!