Eight Foot Rumford

Eight Foot Rumford Plan

You'll notice that we sloped the fireback. We hate to do that after arguing elsewhere that "real Rumfords have straight backs", but we have a problem. Our segmented throat tiles are designed for a 36" Rumford. We can make do in the larger Rumford designs by using the Vestal damper to help bridge the too big throat. In our six foot Rumford we move the whole throat assembly back 4". But the eight footer is just too big. We wish we had a larger throat tile with a bigger radius curve for these big Rumfords but we don't. So we swallow hard and slope the fireback to help close down the throat opening far enough for a Vestal damper to fit.

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