While I can identify with the general angst of starting fires in your home to keep warm, there seems to be a sizable number of paranoid people in this forum -- like people that think a gallon of carbon dust is "a lot" of "creosote" -- when creosote is kinda dense, shiny, maybe even greasy, and it can fill a couple of 5 gallon buckets after an old wood stove is fired in an over-sized brick chimney. Some people want to know if their liner is too dirty eat off of, like burning wood is the same thing as natural gas.
Consider people used to light open fires in wattle and daub chimneys -- which is just mud and sticks. Mud! and Sticks! I'd never advocate someone construct such a thing, much less burn in it, but I think people losing sleep over a little smoke and some black dust from a stainless steel liner in a clay lined masonry chimney might need to get a little perspective, or drink some beers while reading I and My Chimney
Consider people used to light open fires in wattle and daub chimneys -- which is just mud and sticks. Mud! and Sticks! I'd never advocate someone construct such a thing, much less burn in it, but I think people losing sleep over a little smoke and some black dust from a stainless steel liner in a clay lined masonry chimney might need to get a little perspective, or drink some beers while reading I and My Chimney
