You know Ambull . . . while reading this thread it occurred to me . . . you're now one of us . . . a hearth nerd. Welcome to the fold.
Poor guy!You know Ambull . . . while reading this thread it occurred to me . . . you're now one of us . . . a hearth nerd. Welcome to the fold.
You can still burn cool enough that creosote will form at lower parts in the chimney with an insulated liner, especially with wet wood and smouldering. With an epa stove like you have will help regulate against that since the air can only be cut down to a point, but still with wet wood you are cooling the chimney exhaust and creosote sticks to the moisture then to the walls of the liner.
You can still have good secondaries in a cat stove, mine has nice ghost flames as the smoke ignites trailing down from the cat. This is an example from a blaze king:
You know Ambull . . . while reading this thread it occurred to me . . . you're now one of us . . . a hearth nerd. Welcome to the fold.
lol. Nah, I'm just a dork. I aspire to be a hearth nerd one day.
"Tis a lofty goal indeed! I'll be right beside you all the way ambul.
By the way, I like the questions you ask; I think you ask questions that I sometimes think about, but I'm too nervous to ask in case I give myself away for the right total newb that I am....
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly (secondary combustion) lights. Thoreau"Tis a lofty goal indeed! I'll be right beside you all the way ambul.
By the way, I like the questions you ask; I think you ask questions that I sometimes think about, but I'm too nervous to ask in case I give myself away for the right total newb that I am....
He needed hearth.com
"Henry David Thoreau accidentally burned down half of the Concord woods after his campfire got out of control."
people I've spoken to were totally clueless. Is this normal?
If it is the norm, why aren't chimney fires more common?
How does the creosote eventually get hot enough to ignite?
Ive been in the fireplace industry for almost 30 years. I learn something new on here almost every dayYeah, we are all a bunch of wood-neck-geeks on here.
Stick around, I know I have learned a ton here and continue to gather useful info from here frequently.
Seems like it. Despite all the signs of inefficient fires, I still see homes around me that have been standing since the late 1800s. You would figure, with the prevalence of wet wood sold as seasoned, whole city blocks would be burned to the ground every winter. Perhaps it's like shark attacks. A real and present danger but rareYes this is normal - not just concerning firewood
They actually aren't as easy to start as is commonly reported on this board
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