theonlyzarathu
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You can't burn coal in most moden wood stoves since they have a bottom-back-sides unsulating firebrick buring box. You simply must have grates with the air coming up from the bottom. You need a lot of air for a a coal burn. I used to burn coal in my Riteway 37 in the early years, and in the later years only if I ran out of wood. It does produce sulfuric acid in the creosote, so I stopped burning it because it corroded the steel parts of my stove, and caused my exterior staniless steel stove pipe to "rot" out. In the long run, its much more expensive due to the extreme heat of the coals and the culfuric acid produced by Anthracite coal. Additionally, the coal dust coats everything, and you will have to repaint your walls every four years or so.