Now that's confusing. I thought when you open the door it burns faster, not slower?
The in-rushing room air will cool the stove and the hot flue gases will go up the chimney. You would be converting your stove into an open fireplace.
Now that's confusing. I thought when you open the door it burns faster, not slower?
Now that's confusing. I thought when you open the door it burns faster, not slower?
... many stove burn like an open fireplace when their front doors are open, with a slow, gentle fire.
Exactly. The range varies a lot according to who has tested kiln dried lumber, but an average is about 12% according to building science corp. When OMNI labs tested 2x4s and 4x4s that had acclimatized they were getting 18-20%.
Charles 2 is correct. Kiln dried wood may come out of the kiln at 18 percent, but, once it sets around, in the wood pile for a while, it will absorb moisture from the air, and it will attain the same moisture content as any other wood in the wood pile.
I found this out the hard way. I ordered a truck load of kiln dried Southern Yellow Pine, tongue and grooved, to make the ceiling for a log house I was building. I had the rafters up, and was going to nail the t and g pine on top for the ceiling.
The wood sat out for a week or two before I could get it installed, this in the humid air of central Georgia.
I installed the ceiling. Several months later, the house was finished. I cranked up the wood stove and that wood started to get skinny on me. The tongues were 3/8 inch wide, in many cases, the tongues pulled right out of the grooves. So that, a 1x6 shrank a half inch!
Odd, I thought GA was a pretty humid location. What is the source of the data?
Is that dangerous to do without a screen?
Same as a fireplace: sometimes you can get away without a screen, but best to use caution. Especially when burning softwoods, which I find much more likely to crackle and pop and toss embers out of the fireplace on onto the hearth (or floor, or rug, or furniture). But once a fire is down to coals very little popping and shifting of logs occurs.
Does anybody make screens for wood stoves?
Now that's confusing. I thought when you open the door it burns faster, not slower?
That's funny, I was there, I installed the roof, and I watched the boards shrink, in some cases 1/2 inch. Now. y'all are telling me it didn't happen.
I was mistaken about one thing, they were 2x6s not 1x6s.
I did use wood from the same sawmill for the floors of that house, t and g yellow pine 1x6s, kiln dried. Same thing, the boards set around for a week or so, under roof, before I could install them.
I didn't realize how much moisture they would absorb.
Months later when I fired up the wood stove, each board shrunk at least 1/8 inch. So, there was at least a 1/8 inch crack between the boards, in some cases more than that.
I learned the hard way, kiln dried wood will absorb moisture from the air.
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