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Me too, I barely can stand waiting the week to ten days. If you ever lived through a chimney fire you would know the feeling !! We did, in the very chimney I'm using now with the stainless liner. It's quite something I'll tell you, it started with the controls on the old wood stove rattling, then the doors shaking and it sounded like a train was running by the house up through the chimney. I ran outside and this thick horrendous smoke was billowing out through the woods after it ran along the peak of my roof in the NW wind that day. I ran downstairs and got a garden hose and started washing the shingles down along the sides of the chimney and external part of the fireplace. I had my wife toss a box of baking soda into the stove. A fire fighter friend of mine ( now passed away) said to do those things if I ever had a chimney fire. My chimney is two rows thick to the house. Damage was minimal, no house fire, some popped mortar and a new stainless liner was the result. We had the chimney inspected and re pointed. The year after the chimney fire I switched to coal, that was more than 35 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday. The experience is hair curling ! Never mind a house fire due to neglect, can you even imagine how you would feel ?I full clean my stove every 7-10 days, including opening the fines box and vacuuming it.
I also pull the bottom cap of my outside stack and look up in it with a flashlight..
can't do any more than that but still cautious...
have read here where some only give a good clean once a season..
that would freak me out
See if you can get a make and model or possible fire report. Inquiring minds want to know
Yep, more than I ever want to see anyway !Is totally leveled proportion enough?
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/...-caused-fire-that-destroyed-hollis-farmhouse/
Extremely unfortunate. Home owners safe. I've been down this road. 4/13/05Is totally leveled proportion enough?
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/02/...-caused-fire-that-destroyed-hollis-farmhouse/
The ash won't burn . You don't want to have excessive creosote, that builds from burning too cool ( real low stack temp) but even at that with pellet stoves it mostly is a watery black drip or stain more than built up hard creosote like from a wood stove that runs all choked up. No, more likely it was something else in this case. Do a good install, keep it cleaned regularly. Pellet stoves overall are safer than solid wood burning stoves but lets face it, they have fire in them, use common sense and inspect things now and then. Maintain your smoke/co detectors.
Knowing the challenges of keeping up volunteer fire fighting response capability, the Chief of this service was quite up-front with the media about the lack of first-in response units (only 3 people on the first-due fire truck), significantly hampering their ability to do much to knock the fire down when it was still in the pellet stove.
Responding to any fire in winter is major under taking. Water resources in country are next to none and need major consideration before commitment of fire crews.
