CobyRupert
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Not sure about that, but one can get a hot fire without a hot chimney......for a while.
Creosote reducing logs in a wood stove
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Not sure about that, but one can get a hot fire without a hot chimney......for a while.
The last time I cleaned my chimney was Dec 2017, about one year, last weekend looked like around a 3 gal pail full, still on the cellar floor, waiting to sweep it up soon's I find my round to it. What can be done with creosote? Is that what wood preservative is made of for railroad ties?
goeduck
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When I had my EPA insert installed I had the place that I bought it from install it to extend the warranty. I have a full masonry chimney and they installed a smooth wall stainless liner inside the chimney. I do not get a lot of creosote buildup , maybe a pint every two months, which is my cleaning cycle. At the time I asked about an insulated liner but was told they do not do that in my area. Now that I think of it, my bet is that my liner would get hotter and have even less creosote if it had been insulated. The masonry surrounding the liner is not going to insulate as well. The EPA insert takes so much heat out of the fire that at my chimney cap the gases are often just warm. I run it 24/7 including getting up every 2 hours at night to load wood, so there is no morning warmup where I let the fire flame up. I do periodically open the bypass when I need to generate some coals (if I let it burn down too far) and let it go for 30 minutes or so. The EPA stove takes more smoke out of the gases for sure but mostly on a Big Hot fire and that will drive me out of the house on moderate weather. I often run hot but small fires which does not get the CAT glowing. I only burn wood under 20% humidity. With our cool/cold damp climate our firewood only gets down to about 17% moisture when stored outside. We seldom ever have freezing weather, just damp day after damp day in the high 30s, 40s and 50s with air averaging 80+% humidity. How dry does everyones wood get?
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Here’s a hot fire in my epa stove. And that’s dampered way down.
My wood is so dry it's checked on both ends and split in the middle. I throw water on it so it wont over dry.
CobyRupert
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goeduck
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It is hard to get mine that dry with our 9 months out of the year 70+% ambient humidity.
Diggin It
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Some of mine is just plain rain wet. Too much rain, too little drying time between. Ground is saturated, so even the stuff covered with tarps for rain is wet from dampness. I have to bring two to three days worth into the garage with isn't directly heated. That helps a lot, but some remains damp. I've had to set a few of damp ones on top of the hot stove to dry by heat radiation before I can put them in the firebox area.
Egon
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And how does one get a hot chimney without a hot fire?納/COLOR]
Just keep on burning cool fires.!
My wood is half dry at the start. I cut in Jan-March, bucked up in 2nd-3rd week in Oct, all 6 cord in my cellar by last the week-ish in Oct. My stove is down cellar so as I burn the dryer the wood gets. I thought Maine was bad with humidity but yours sounds worse, maybe whats needed in high humid weather is a kiln of some sort. A friend of mind at wok has a small one, holds 1-2 cord and he's constantly drying wood. Excuse me while I go throw some more water on my to dry wood.
