Woody5506
Minister of Fire
This thread has kind of gotten me paranoid about smoking out my neighbors, only because lately my Mother in Law has been at my house during the day watching my 3 month old and she tries to keep a fire going. I've explained to her numerous times what she needs to do, that the stove is actually very easy to operate it but, you need to do just that....actually operate it.
Yesterday I came home to 2 big splits in the stove partially blackened with zero signs of existing fire, no heat to the stove top and hardly any on the flue. She smoldered logs and just let them die out. I imagine the smoke was dumping out of the chimney for a while. I told her to please not worry about trying to keep the stove going....I'd rather come home to it cold than a smoldered mess.
Not saying the OP doesn't know how to burn his stoves, but if you have neighbors close by and you're smoking them out, something aint right!
Yesterday I came home to 2 big splits in the stove partially blackened with zero signs of existing fire, no heat to the stove top and hardly any on the flue. She smoldered logs and just let them die out. I imagine the smoke was dumping out of the chimney for a while. I told her to please not worry about trying to keep the stove going....I'd rather come home to it cold than a smoldered mess.
Not saying the OP doesn't know how to burn his stoves, but if you have neighbors close by and you're smoking them out, something aint right!