Unattended burning

[JimWalshin845]

I wonder how many of you can look back at a new born child... the first time you left them in someone elses hands... or a teenager..... leaving them in charge of the home so you could get away for a long weekend?

Sorta sounds familiar?

 

[Cearbhaill]

I wonder how many of you can look back at a new born child... the first time you left them in someone elses hands... or a teenager..... leaving them in charge of the home so you could get away for a long weekend?

Sorta sounds familiar?

Well that was 100 years ago before I turned into a worrier. My daughter went camping- real sleeping on the ground camping- with my in-laws when she was three weeks old.

 

[kevin fitzsimmons]

Since our stove is only about two years old and was installed professionally by people who knew what they were doing, we don't have any worries about unattended burning. Sometimes at night in bed I hear noises and worry briefly that something funny is going on with the stove. Then I remind myself that if the house was catching on fire I would smell smoke or something burning. I am wondering, though, how many years you have a stove before you start to worry that some part of it or the chimney will just plain wear out. I mean, they don't last forever, right?

From talking to some friends that are fire fighters, as time goes by and the wood around a chimney structure under goes pyrolysis from exposure to elevated temperatures. This reduces the ignition temperature of the wood. With a proper install this is likely a non-issue, but if the install is poor, or you have a chimney fire, then ???

 

[JimWalshin845]

author="Nof60" date="1197663875From talking to some friends that are fire fighters, as time goes by and the wood around a chimney structure under goes pyrolysis from exposure to elevated temperatures. This reduces the ignition temperature of the wood. With a proper install this is likely a non-issue, but if the install is poor,
or you have a chimney fire, then ???

Then you have carbonization!

 

[kevin fitzsimmons]

And carbonization is generally bad for your structures. Most of the probelms i have heard of are stoking fires left unattended or not dampered down soon enough. The overnight cooler burns may lead to problems, bu are likely to no be the start of a chim fire.

 

[Lignums]

When in doubt ask the people who 'had' to do this in the past. I find it hard to believe that if it was not a safe practice, the human race would have died out a very long time ago. If it worked for them, in their old pot bellied Ben Franklin's, spitting out 150 grams per hour, it should be safe at the newer EPA stoves. Or maybe my logic is skewed a little acute.