Honey will you please Keep an eye on the stove?

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I relish the current fact that the SO does not live with me, currently.


He does try, when he's here, I must admit. "How does this thing work?" And then doesn't listen.


I don't think it's a gender thing, I think it's DNA/smarts from your ancestors thing.


Atleast that's what I keep telling myself :blank:
 
I can no longer walk without a walker due to primary lateral sclerosis, which is a form of ALS and my wife gets the wood into the house to where I can handle it. I take care of the stove all day, but I have her load for overnight because she can see into the stove to fill it better than me. Manytimes after filling the stove, I wiil say "I'm going in the shower, you alright with the stove"? I get out of the shower to find her sound asleep with the damper wide open. After four years with this stove, she still asks me when to close the damper and I always have the same respose "what does the thermostat say". I guess she can't get the old "smoke dragon" mentality out of her head, load it, close the damper and go to bed. God bless her as she works hard!

Jim
 
These are picky stoves, or something.
My blaze king is so easy to use.
Open it up to wide open.......crumple up 4 pages of news paper.......pile on 7 or so sticks of kindling.....add 2 to 4 logs split in half on top of that, depends on their size.
Light with match, close door, and walk away.
Come back about 20 mins later and adjust thermostat down if you want less heat, or leave it open if your trying to warm up the house from a cool temp........when the firebox appears low, open door and add wood............its just that easy.
Been loving blaze king heaters for about 15 years now.
 
650ºF in our Avalon is common, in the firebox........

-Soupy1957
 
I work 10 hour days (6:30 am to 5pm), So I get up really early to get the fire going. I'll get a good blaze going. Need to get a thermometer, seems to be what helps most of you. I'll get ready for work and before I leave I'll check the fire to make sure everything has a nice burn. I'll stack a large pile by the stove then leave for work. Around my 9:30 break I'll get a call, "It's cold in here." For which I respond,"How's the fire." "It's just hot embers."

Which begins the same instructions that I give her all the time, "You have to keep wood in the stove. Even if its just one log."

After just a month of being a wood burner she is starting to realize that you waste more wood if you have to continuosly rebuild the fire.
Because of this I've gone through almost a cord of wood and we haven't even gotten to the really cold months yet.
 
james72 said:
I work 10 hour days (6:30 am to 5pm), So I get up really early to get the fire going. I'll get a good blaze going. Need to get a thermometer, seems to be what helps most of you. I'll get ready for work and before I leave I'll check the fire to make sure everything has a nice burn. I'll stack a large pile by the stove then leave for work. Around my 9:30 break I'll get a call, "It's cold in here." For which I respond,"How's the fire." "It's just hot embers."

Which begins the same instructions that I give her all the time, "You have to keep wood in the stove. Even if its just one log."

After just a month of being a wood burner she is starting to realize that you waste more wood if you have to continuosly rebuild the fire.
Because of this I've gone through almost a cord of wood and we haven't even gotten to the really cold months yet.
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Random thoughts . . .

Definitely get a thermometer . . . even better get two . . . one for the stove and one for your stove pipe if it is accessible (i.e. not a fireplace insert.) I use my thermometers often . . . even when I can quite often do a visual check and know roughly where the stove is at for temps.

And yes . . . going 24/7 is actually easier . . . you use less wood and less kindling, temps are more even and once you're in a routine it's quite easy to keep things going.
 
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