Is pouring 150L of water into a tiled stove during demolition the right action?

Demolition of the tiled stove.

Is it true that 100-150 liters of water should be poured into the stove from the top to avoid dust during demolition?
This water will soak into the tiles, bricks?
Will it flood the apartment?

How much does the stove weigh? I have 300 kg per person/year as a free reception at the landfill, each additional kg is 18 groszy.


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The stove is neither old nor new, so the decision was made. It was a furnace left in case the central heating system failed. She didn't have it for 5 years, so I decided it was pointless to keep it for more years. It's just as part of the explanation if someone urged "leave it, it will come in handy".

markostka wrote:

Will it flood the apartment?

It will flood.
Unless you seal the firebox and ash pan doors.
And will these 100 liters of water soak into the tiles?

You can moisten from the inside to make it less dusty, but fill it completely from the inside ... I doubt it would be a good idea.
While the bricks will absorb some water, I doubt the tiles.

You could possibly pour water on the stove from the top, but only after removing the first layer of tiles from the top, unless the entire top is made of tiles. Tiles do not absorb water from the outside because they have a glaze similar to tiles. Only the middle part of the tile absorbs water. To prevent dusting, you would have to pour water slowly and wait for it to soak in, I don't know if it makes sense, because a small amount of water will probably not be effective, and excessive water will probably flow down through the smoke channels and you will only make grands (mud + soot) . It's best to slowly dismantle the tile, tile by piece, picking everything you find inside into buckets and taking it outside.

it will be best to take it apart layer by layer, spray each layer with water from a small sprayer during the demolition. This should effectively reduce the amount of rising dust.
Either way, it's going to be hard to take it apart completely without making a mess. Of course, you need to put foil on the floor, because the remains of debris / sand / soot very badly damage (scratch) the floor.

Hello

I dismantled a similar stove during the holidays. We removed one level of tiles and then with an industrial vacuum cleaner (Starmix with filters shaking and a filter bag) we extracted the content of the inside of the furnace. And so on down to the bottom. The part of the room where the stove was located was separated with a double curtain made of thick construction foil, and the furniture was protected with painting foil. The spoil was thrown out of the window in buckets onto a wheelbarrow. The pedestal of the stove was shackled with a demolition hammer - there was a bit more dust here, but spraying with water on a regular basis gave advice. To sum up: there was not much dust, ash and soot, at least not as much as we thought at first - it was enough to vacuum the room and wash the floor. In my opinion, pouring water is pointless, because if there is soot inside, the water will run off it like a duck.

As for the costs of disposal, I will not say, because the tiles and rubble were useful in the foundation of another building.

Regards

Christian

I dismantled three such furnaces. Always slowly, without haste, using a lot of water from a sprayer, such as for windows or cabin. This is especially true of flues that are full of soot and ash. It's not only about not dusting, but about moisturizing the clay. Leave the door for last. As for the weight, I haven't weighed it but it will be more than 300 kg.

Before you take the stove to the landfill, give some announcements, even on OLX. When you give it away for free, there will probably be volunteers because even crushed bricks from the furnace are applicable. I almost didn't throw mine away (only burnt and dirty elements) and there wasn't much left. I also threw out the binder, but it's ordinary clay with salt, which means it can be used to improve the structure of light sandy soils, just leave it for a year or two to let the rain wash away the salt harmful to plants. Whole bricks act as a heat accumulator in the fireplace built in place of the stove. The crushed ones were used to harden a piece of dirt road, the tiles buried in the ground separated expansive raspberries so that they wouldn't spread around the garden... It's an old ceramic tiled stove, not a modern MDF and plastic fireplace mantel. Everything is environmentally friendly so it can safely return to this environment.

Apart from the issues of convenience with lighting and maintenance, no home appliance with a higher efficiency of burning solid fuel than a tiled stove has been invented to date. And all these tin wonders with a feeder, lambda probes for stoichiometric combustion, etc. may call him "boss."

I don't have time for OLX.
8 hours, that's how long it took to demolish with the elevation from the 1st floor to the ground floor.
1 person.
A little long, but dismantled brick by brick, everything packed in cardboard boxes.
The sprayer is good, but halfway through the stove, the hand falls off from pressing ... If one sprays and the other disassembles, you can dismantle this stove almost without dust.
The height of the stove is ... well, I did not measure it, but it comes out to be 7 tiles + the base and the upper end of the stove in the form of half-tiles.
The weight of the stove is 1050 kg. (weighed on in-run scale)