This year I have the driest wood ever. It's a mix of about half poplar, with the rest being red cedar, birch, locust, cherry, and buckthorn.
My fires were very hot with occasional 'puffing' from too-rapid gasification. I ended up closing my primaries to 4mm (from 6mm last year) and closing my fan shutter to about 1/2".
The boiler is running fine, but now I'm getting liquid creosote pooling on the lower lip of the loading door opening so that once in a while some of it is dragged out when I open the door, and drips down the front. I routinely scrape away a few tablespoons of it from the loading door opening before each fire.
Has anyone else seen this? Any theories about why I'm seeing it now after all these years?
Up to this point, my EKO has been spotlessly clean other than the 'protective' layer of creosote inside the firebox.
My fires were very hot with occasional 'puffing' from too-rapid gasification. I ended up closing my primaries to 4mm (from 6mm last year) and closing my fan shutter to about 1/2".
The boiler is running fine, but now I'm getting liquid creosote pooling on the lower lip of the loading door opening so that once in a while some of it is dragged out when I open the door, and drips down the front. I routinely scrape away a few tablespoons of it from the loading door opening before each fire.
Has anyone else seen this? Any theories about why I'm seeing it now after all these years?
Up to this point, my EKO has been spotlessly clean other than the 'protective' layer of creosote inside the firebox.