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[andyhowardcity]

Hi guys,
I know Taylor is not the most popular stove here, but I have a chance to get a used T-750 for $2000.  It looks like it's in good shape, firebox looks solid.  A little bit of refractory chipping on the door, but not bad. 

I'm on a budget, don't want to borrow money, and winter is fast approaching.  I'm okay to have old school stoves in my area and have plenty of wood.  Heating about 3500 square feet of fairly tight house.

[slimjim]

If it looks good and you think you can deal with it, buy it and burn wood, they made a decent stove, smokey,difficult to clean but as long as you understand that before you buy it's ok, spend the real money on the pipe and installation, when the stove fails or you can afford a new stove it's easy to replace, the pipe is not easy to replace, do it right the first time, look up LOGSTOR/ URECON dual pex flex insulated pipe

[andyhowardcity]

Thanks for the advice.  That is exactly what I had planned, as far as doing the install right. 
I looked at the "tubes" and they do look gooey and difficult to clean.  The guy said he cleaned it every Sunday.
I'm going to check out the logstar/urecon pipe.

[slimjim]

Thanks for looking at it, you may find the best way to clean those tubes will be a very hot fire to burn it out, be very careful.

[Scott7m]

The tubes on the Taylor are real hard to clean.. 

Your going to have more in underground pipe than you will the stove haha

[andyhowardcity]

If it seems like too good a deal to be true... we know how that one ends.
But seriously, the guy I'm looking at buying from said he cleaned every Sunday and built himself a tool to clean the tubes.  Not sure if that's included or not in the sale price.
I'm more worried about leaks and heating 500 gallons of water.

This is probably more appropriate in the plumbing thread, but I'm wondering about running the pex out from the stove underground to my attached garage, then near the roof of the garage to my walkout basement (all on the same level) to my furnace which is in the middle of the house.

Here is a diagram:
                                                  65 feet
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                                x     Garage level                               Basement furnace (forced air
                 35 ft.       x
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