Unattended burning

Jim Walsh said:

I wonder how many of you can look back at a new born child... the first time you left them in someone elses hands... or a teenager..... leaving them in charge of the home so you could get away for a long weekend?

Sorta sounds familiar?

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Some Like It Hot said:

Since our stove is only about two years old and was installed professionally by people who knew what they were doing, we don't have any worries about unattended burning. Sometimes at night in bed I hear noises and worry briefly that something funny is going on with the stove. Then I remind myself that if the house was catching on fire I would smell smoke or something burning. I am wondering, though, how many years you have a stove before you start to worry that some part of it or the chimney will just plain wear out. I mean, they don't last forever, right?

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author="Nof60" date="1197663875From talking to some friends that are fire fighters, as time goes by and the wood around a chimney structure under goes pyrolysis from exposure to elevated temperatures. This reduces the ignition temperature of the wood. With a proper install this is likely a non-issue, but if the install is poor,
or you have a chimney fire, then ???

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