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Okay... now that this year's election season is over, I can go back to remodeling my house.
The kitchen and butler's kitchen, and the cellar are targeted. I want to 'finish' the raw cellar and make it a finished basement, and build a summer kitchen down there. Upstairs, I want to break through the wall separating the kitchen from the butler's kitchen, if possible. (The main plumbing stack goes though that wall... but we don't know exactly where... we believe it's roughly the center, which would suck, but we don't know for certain.) This would make a large enough kitchen to put a small kitchen table in there.
<span style="font-weight: bold">MY VINTAGE 1941 UNIVERSAL STOVE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">What to do about it?</span>
Restore it? (pricey!)
Or get rid of it? (might be able to make a little money by sale of it?)
I am currently in beginning fact-discovery stage of discussion with this man. I have not yet contacted this woman yet, but am aware of her... and she is closer to me geographically. I didn't find out about her until after I had already contacted the man.
My Universal is a huge white elephant. dwl
It's a 40-inch cast iron stove, white enameled, gas, has six stovetop burners, two ovens, and two broilers. It's got a clock set into the 'backsplash'. It's a monster! No pilot for the ovens and broilers - you light it [each oven or broiler] manually each and every time you want to use it [each]. The top burners are supposed to self-light via a pilot light... but eight times out of ten, you have to use a match... it needs a gas man to clean the burner heads and readjust them all.
I cook daily on that ^ stove. And honestly, I love it.
It needs a minimal amount of repair work, and a moderate amount of cleaning/maintenance work that it has not been given for a few decades too long.
What should I do?
I'd like to restore and keep this stove. It's in keeping with my 1941 home and furnishings.
Also.....
<span style="font-weight: bold">MY VINTAGE CIRCA-1940 GLENDALE STOVE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">What to do about IT?</span>
Restore it? (pricey!)
Or get rid of it? (might be able to make a little money by sale of it?)
This ^ stove is down in the cellar, hooked up to an ancient long-out-of-code gasline, in what used to be a summer kitchen. Or perhaps was once supposed to be/gonna be a summer kitchen. There's no kitchen sink or counter... only a laundry sink - the old double sink for laundry by hand... so maybe the previous owners just never got around to building the summer kitchen??
This Glendale stove is circa late 1930s or early 1940s. It's about the age of my big Universal stove upstairs... but this Glendale is smaller - a 36-inch stove with four stovetop burners to the left and top space to the right, and an oven and broiler beneath to the right, and storage drawers for pots underneath the burners to the left - and it's yellow. A beautiful soft buttercup yellow. It's rusty, but not beyond repair and restoration. I've told the man contacted and mentioned above about this stove, too.
Much as I like this pretty Glendale, I have no attachement to it,and I already have a bigger modern gas stove down there, standing right next to the old Glendale on the floor, waiting to be hooked up to a modern gasline hookup. I want a self-cleaning unit downstairs! This used, but new-ish modern stove is self-cleaning, has four stovetop burners, a large oven and broiler, and is ready to go.
I hope I can sell the pretty buttercup yellow Glendale stove to this man who will restore it to perfection, and turn around and resell it for thousands of dollars. Even if he oly pays me a few hundred dollars... it might be enough to offset the price of the work he has to do on my Universal stove so that I can afford it, thereby allowing me to keep my beloved old stove upstairs, and getting it restored so it's no longer an eyesore AND so that it works efficiently again. Right now, it's right-hand oven runs about 65-70 degrees hot (hotter than the setting on the dial) and it's left-hand oven leaks too much heat to be useable any more - except for as a warming oven only, due to the holes you see above it (see the long scar above the dials to the left).
<span style="font-size: 11pt">Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
Should I just scout about for a vintage stove of similar age (and size) to replace my Universal?</span>
The kitchen and butler's kitchen, and the cellar are targeted. I want to 'finish' the raw cellar and make it a finished basement, and build a summer kitchen down there. Upstairs, I want to break through the wall separating the kitchen from the butler's kitchen, if possible. (The main plumbing stack goes though that wall... but we don't know exactly where... we believe it's roughly the center, which would suck, but we don't know for certain.) This would make a large enough kitchen to put a small kitchen table in there.
<span style="font-weight: bold">MY VINTAGE 1941 UNIVERSAL STOVE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">What to do about it?</span>
Restore it? (pricey!)
Or get rid of it? (might be able to make a little money by sale of it?)
I am currently in beginning fact-discovery stage of discussion with this man. I have not yet contacted this woman yet, but am aware of her... and she is closer to me geographically. I didn't find out about her until after I had already contacted the man.
My Universal is a huge white elephant. dwl
It's a 40-inch cast iron stove, white enameled, gas, has six stovetop burners, two ovens, and two broilers. It's got a clock set into the 'backsplash'. It's a monster! No pilot for the ovens and broilers - you light it [each oven or broiler] manually each and every time you want to use it [each]. The top burners are supposed to self-light via a pilot light... but eight times out of ten, you have to use a match... it needs a gas man to clean the burner heads and readjust them all.
I cook daily on that ^ stove. And honestly, I love it.
It needs a minimal amount of repair work, and a moderate amount of cleaning/maintenance work that it has not been given for a few decades too long.
What should I do?
I'd like to restore and keep this stove. It's in keeping with my 1941 home and furnishings.
Also.....
<span style="font-weight: bold">MY VINTAGE CIRCA-1940 GLENDALE STOVE:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold">What to do about IT?</span>
Restore it? (pricey!)
Or get rid of it? (might be able to make a little money by sale of it?)
This ^ stove is down in the cellar, hooked up to an ancient long-out-of-code gasline, in what used to be a summer kitchen. Or perhaps was once supposed to be/gonna be a summer kitchen. There's no kitchen sink or counter... only a laundry sink - the old double sink for laundry by hand... so maybe the previous owners just never got around to building the summer kitchen??
This Glendale stove is circa late 1930s or early 1940s. It's about the age of my big Universal stove upstairs... but this Glendale is smaller - a 36-inch stove with four stovetop burners to the left and top space to the right, and an oven and broiler beneath to the right, and storage drawers for pots underneath the burners to the left - and it's yellow. A beautiful soft buttercup yellow. It's rusty, but not beyond repair and restoration. I've told the man contacted and mentioned above about this stove, too.
Much as I like this pretty Glendale, I have no attachement to it,and I already have a bigger modern gas stove down there, standing right next to the old Glendale on the floor, waiting to be hooked up to a modern gasline hookup. I want a self-cleaning unit downstairs! This used, but new-ish modern stove is self-cleaning, has four stovetop burners, a large oven and broiler, and is ready to go.
I hope I can sell the pretty buttercup yellow Glendale stove to this man who will restore it to perfection, and turn around and resell it for thousands of dollars. Even if he oly pays me a few hundred dollars... it might be enough to offset the price of the work he has to do on my Universal stove so that I can afford it, thereby allowing me to keep my beloved old stove upstairs, and getting it restored so it's no longer an eyesore AND so that it works efficiently again. Right now, it's right-hand oven runs about 65-70 degrees hot (hotter than the setting on the dial) and it's left-hand oven leaks too much heat to be useable any more - except for as a warming oven only, due to the holes you see above it (see the long scar above the dials to the left).
<span style="font-size: 11pt">Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions?
Should I just scout about for a vintage stove of similar age (and size) to replace my Universal?</span>
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