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 12-25-2003, 14:58 Post: 72183
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Seems like there are quite a few woodstove users here on the board. How many of you have had a chimmney fire? I clean & imspect my chimmney each season and sometimes twice a season. Every once in awhile I get a fire in the chimmney if I leave the woodstove doors open too long while refueling it. I just shut the doors and turn off the vents and the fire gradually smothers. I try to burn the stove as hot as possible within its limits for temp. to minimize the creosote build up. Any of you have any tips or secrets that keeps the chimmney clean and problems to a minimum?






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 12-25-2003, 15:13 Post: 72188
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I dry the wood out around the woodstove for about 2 or 3 days. I bring in about a face cord of wood and let it dry around the woodstove so it is bone dry when I burn it. I had a lot of poplar and junk wood this year so maybe that is contributing to the creosote. In anycase I just smoked out half the county when the chimmney tried to catch.






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I have about burned up most of the poplar and sycamore. I am getting into the rest of which is oak. I dry the wood about 4 or 5 feet away from the woodstove for at least 2 or 3 days. The wood is so dry is full of cracks and immediately starts to burn. You would think that would be dry enough. I have a big house and maybe I am burning more wood than most folks and I need to clean the chimmney more often.






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 12-25-2003, 18:51 Post: 72212
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I have a brick chimmney with a ceramic block liner. I check it each time I clean the chimmney. They can crack or break.






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You definitely have the part right about the little heat value in gum & sycamore. I have to add wood every hour or two. I figured I would try burning it just to get rid of it. I wish the oak, hickory, and ashe would slit as easy as the poplar! ;o)






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