Restoration of the
1925 Reliable Gas Stove
 AntiqueAppliances.Com
is proud to have been commissioned to restore this one-of-a-kind,
custom gas stove built by The Reliable Stove Company in 1925
for the F. E. Drury family winter estate, located in Georgia.
The owners of the 10,000 square foot Georgian Colonial mansion
are restoring the home to its turn of the century grandeur
and we couldn't be more pleased about being part of this unique
restoration. The stove is pictured to the right exactly how
it looked when we removed it from the estate early in 2003.
In late January our crew went South
from our shop in Clayton, Georgia, to pick up this beauty.
The house, amazing as it was, posed no real problem for moving
the stove out, or so we thought. It had wide hallways and
rooms plenty large enough for us to manuver. Eight of us "dead
lifted" the stove onto a pair of piano dollies, then
rolled it down the hallway to the front door. Okay, the easy
stuff stopped here. Now we had to manage moving the stove
down eight steps! With heavy ropes and a few extra people,
we let the stove "push us" down the steps, onto
the driveway and then into our trailer!
About the Stove...
This massive stove, the biggest we've come across so far,
literally dwarfs our 1936 Magic Chef 6300 (recently restored
and sold to a customer in New Hampshire), previously the largest
stove in our inventory. This Reliable has eight surface burners
and two surface warming burners, three baking ovens, one broiling
oven, one large pantry storage compartment and two over-head
warming ovens. The stove measures 86" wide, 30"
deep, 73" high and weighs approx. 1200 lbs.
 Since
this is a truly one-of-a-kind stove and a one-of-a-kind restoration,
we have detailed the entire process of the restoration on
these pages so that you can have a better idea of what a custom
restoration entails. The only difference in this restoration
than any other which takes place at AntiqueAppliances.Com
is the actual size of the project. We are very excited to
have been chosen for this unique project and to have the opportunity
to share the process with you.
 Because
the stove is so large, Reliable had plenty of space and plenty
of reason to show off its logos. Our restoration process will
honor the integrity of these "ceramic overlays"
and protect them throughout the restoration process.
We hope you enjoy the pictures of this fabulous
stove during its restoration, as much as we enjoyed doing
the actual work!
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