firefighterjake
Minister of Fire
You know Ambull . . . while reading this thread it occurred to me . . . you're now one of us . . . a hearth nerd. 
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CenterTree
Minister of Fire
Poor guy!You know Ambull . . . while reading this thread it occurred to me . . . you're now one of us . . . a hearth nerd.
Is that really from the cat or is it igniting on its own from the heat in the firebox? Guess it doesn't matter one way or the other.
You know Ambull . . . while reading this thread it occurred to me . . . you're now one of us . . . a hearth nerd.
lol. Nah, I'm just a dork. I aspire to be a hearth nerd one day.
Chuck the Canuck
Feeling the Heat
"Tis a lofty goal indeed! I'll be right beside you all the way ambul.
By the way, I like the questions you ask; I think you ask questions that I sometimes think about, but I'm too nervous to ask in case I give myself away for the right total newb that I am....
mellow
Resident Stove Connoisseur
The ghost flames you see are from the smoke hitting the cat and being burned, kinda like a fuse, it hits the cat which is burning at around 1500 degrees and trails down.
You burn smoke in a cat stove, you don't really want to much active flame, just enough to keep the cat fed with smoke and heat to keep it cruising, it is a different mindset than your current secondary air stove.
You burn smoke in a cat stove, you don't really want to much active flame, just enough to keep the cat fed with smoke and heat to keep it cruising, it is a different mindset than your current secondary air stove.
Lyndenbrook Farm
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I am new to the whole thing this year. My DW called me a hearth nerd a couple weeks ago. I was fairly glowing with the "praise."
I also felt embarassed leaving the house last week and seeing smoke ;(
Very chuffed to walk out this a.m. seeing only the shimmer of heat out of the chimney. I am starting to get this right.
I also felt embarassed leaving the house last week and seeing smoke ;(
Very chuffed to walk out this a.m. seeing only the shimmer of heat out of the chimney. I am starting to get this right.
"Tis a lofty goal indeed! I'll be right beside you all the way ambul.
By the way, I like the questions you ask; I think you ask questions that I sometimes think about, but I'm too nervous to ask in case I give myself away for the right total newb that I am....
Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly (secondary combustion) lights. Thoreau"Tis a lofty goal indeed! I'll be right beside you all the way ambul.
By the way, I like the questions you ask; I think you ask questions that I sometimes think about, but I'm too nervous to ask in case I give myself away for the right total newb that I am....
Chuck the Canuck
Feeling the Heat
Bigg_Redd
Minister of Fire
Yes this is normal - not just concerning firewood
They actually aren't as easy to start as is commonly reported on this board
See previous answer
Fsappo
Minister of Fire
Ive been in the fireplace industry for almost 30 years. I learn something new on here almost every day
Stick around, I know I have learned a ton here and continue to gather useful info from here frequently.
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Seems like it. Despite all the signs of inefficient fires, I still see homes around me that have been standing since the late 1800s. You would figure, with the prevalence of wet wood sold as seasoned, whole city blocks would be burned to the ground every winter. Perhaps it's like shark attacks. A real and present danger but rare
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Chuck the Canuck
Feeling the Heat
I've been a little bit nervous about starting a chimney fire lately, since I started building top down fires (or upside-down fires, as me wife calls them). The reason is that by the time I get the stove loaded with the various layers of large/med/small wood, I'm left with very little space on top for the kindling and news paper. Now add to that the fact that me stove has a bypass, and I get nervous that with all the snap/cracklin/poppin the kindling makes right up there at the top of the firebox with a direct line into the flue when the bypass is open and ........
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