When you walk outside 5 minutes after a reload and see nothing coming out of your chimney it will all make sense. All of that smoke you used to send up and coat your chimney, smoke out your neighbors, and contribute to global warming, will now be burned inside your house and turned into heat. It's not just about efficiency its also about responsibility. Despite any early frustration you are making a right step.
Gotta love that black gold! Wet wood dry wood it's all good. BURN IS BURN!Any stove should have good, dry wood run through it.
Sure you can burn wet wood in either, and better in an older stove, and these are mostly the ones you see on the news that have burnt down a house.
Regardless the stove, the wetter the wood, the more crud in the stack for a nice freight train a coming.....
When you walk outside 5 minutes after a reload and see nothing coming out of your chimney it will all make sense. All of that smoke you used to send up and coat your chimney, smoke out your neighbors, and contribute to global warming, will now be burned inside your house and turned into heat. It's not just about efficiency its also about responsibility. Despite any early frustration you are making a right step.
Hope this doesn't make me sound crazy but I still walk outside to look at my chimney during a reload. It never ceases to amaze me how as soon as I close the bypass, all the smoke disappears. As I look up at my chimney, all I need to do is look over to my neighbors two houses down to be reminded what my chimney looked like last season. His chimney is always billowing smoke and he runs wet wood through an old smoke dragon. Ive had another neighbor ask me if I stopped heating with wood. I said no and thanked him for the enforcement of our decision of investing in an EPA Certed stove.
you're not crazy a lot of people here still go outside look at theirs chimney and they already know you're not going to see smoke it's just fun to look.Hope this doesn't make me sound crazy but I still walk outside to look at my chimney during a reload. It never ceases to amaze me how as soon as I close the bypass, all the smoke disappears. As I look up at my chimney, all I need to do is look over to my neighbors two houses down to be reminded what my chimney looked like last season. His chimney is always billowing smoke and he runs wet wood through an old smoke dragon. Ive had another neighbor ask me if I stopped heating with wood. I said no and thanked him for the enforcement of our decision of investing in an EPA Certed stove.
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