First fire of the season - soapstone stove

Almost made one in my stove this morning too. Was not much over 60* in the house.

Sorry, but I can't even comprehend the thought of a fire right now! We are on our 17th day in a row over 90* (Heat indexes of 105*). Weather you can wear, extremely humid.

Here is a link to the Hearthstone Equinox manual that details the break-in fires for that stove.

http://www.hearthstonestoves.com/assets/files/document_library/Equinox8000Manual.pdf

Bill

I believe Hearthstone does require at least one small break-in fire annually. It surely would not do any harm and it may even be enough to take that chill out of the air.


Heating season beginning up there now and it really is not that far away here. I for one will be very happy to see at least some very cool nights.

I would follow any instructions in the manual, but mostly break in fires are for new stoves. They relieve the stresses build up in the casting process by heating and cooling the cast pieces slowly so they can move and settle together properly where the meet. You generally build several medium fires and let the stove cool down between each one. This may be necessary to a lesser degree after the stove sits all summer. It's mid 80s here so it's going to be a while before I even think about building a fire.

Good god. I couldn't even imagine the number of cords of wood I would go through if my burning season began in August.

Yeah, heating season is getting closer. I remember last Aug I had a new stove and was inchin to break it in. As soon as we got some cool nights I was playing and the windows were open. Probably best to get the smell out while you can still leave the windows open.

A new stove? Any time is burning time. My break in fires were in August as I recall. The manual is pretty clear about the temps and method. You'll love the smell, it smells like a hot pancake griddle. Not paint fumey to me.

Hey egclassic, I will trade you some of our weather for your cool weather, we are at 40 days of tripple digit heat,and no rain, as I am writting the thermomoter in the shade on the patio is showing a cool 110*.
My wood that I cut this spring has boiled dry,and needless to say my chain saws,and splitter feel neglected. So if that HOT 90 degree weather is too much send it my way.

M said:

Hey egclassic, I will trade you some of our weather for your cool weather, we are at 40 days of tripple digit heat,and no rain, as I am writting the thermomoter in the shade on the patio is showing a cool 110*.
My wood that I cut this spring has boiled dry,and needless to say my chain saws,and splitter feel neglected. So if that HOT 90 degree weather is too much send it my way.

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No thanks, even though they say it is in the 90's here, my thermometer has been showing 104-107 and it is mounted in the shade.
I can handle the heat, it is our humidity that kills me. Two years ago I went to Vegas for the first time, they were cryin cause it was 106 during the day but I thought it felt great with absolutly no humidity whatsoever.

I may do the paint burn-in on the Englander 30-NCH in August - outside of course!

Maybe I can push the outside air temp from 99 degrees to over 100......

Bill

BeGreen said:

I feel for you folks. 99F at midnight yesterday in Dallas.

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Thats incredible!! I'm not sure where the chococat is located but I have only had occasional thoughts of the upcoming burn season. Like Bart said we are just in a lull from the 90's right now. A/C is off, windows open and we are enjoying some great weather right now...

I think it might have hit 55* here today. I was cutting the lawn in a sweatshirt anyhow.

46 for a high here today. We had frost two mornings ago.

Move this to the weather forums!

My suggestion to all my Hearthstone customers for that "first fire of the season" burn or any time the stove has been idle is to just grab some kindling and 3 or 4 small splits, maybe 2" diameter. Light it and let it go out.

Highbeam said:

A new stove? Any time is burning time. My break in fires were in August as I recall. The manual is pretty clear about the temps and method. You'll love the smell, it smells like a hot pancake griddle. Not paint fumey to me.

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I was breaking in my new Jotul last night outside...the smell wasn't too bad...a cool 90 degrees this evening...nothing like a nice cozy fire in the Texas Hill Country...in August....actually when I walked away from the stove it did feel pretty cool!...haha

If you want to have a fire in August and then have a break for a while, you need to live over here.

Typical British summer.

3 hot days and a storm ;-)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021997/Flash-floods-heavy-outbursts-fine-weather-way.html