Buddy of mine is a contractor and we trade work for materials. I fix his computers and he gives me a lot of scrap wood. This summer he dumped a bunch of of hardwood and pine floorboards that have paint on them. I cut them up into 1 ft pieces and split them into big slivers for kindling splinters to lay over my crumpled newspaper balls to light my Englanders. He has an old Vogelzang box stove smoke dragon and he burns this stuff all the time and talks about how it really burns hot because of the paints and resins/varnishes that are all over this old flooring. Probably a lot of lead on this wood as well as varnishes and resins.
I like it for kindling because this wood is as dry as a bone and lights up like paper. Occasionally I'll burn a load of big pieces of this stuff and admire the colors that the secondaries display. Like northern lights with pyrotechnics thrown in.
I'm wondering whether the paints and coatings on the wood might be damaging the stainless steel tubes in my Englanders.
Am I hurting my stove by using this stuff as kindling? Am I killing people in my neighborhood with the exhaust coming out of my chimney?
I like it for kindling because this wood is as dry as a bone and lights up like paper. Occasionally I'll burn a load of big pieces of this stuff and admire the colors that the secondaries display. Like northern lights with pyrotechnics thrown in.
I'm wondering whether the paints and coatings on the wood might be damaging the stainless steel tubes in my Englanders.
Am I hurting my stove by using this stuff as kindling? Am I killing people in my neighborhood with the exhaust coming out of my chimney?
