Ah The Sounds of Wood Burning

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BrotherBart

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Happens every Fall. Temp is around fifty right now and I went outside and I can hear at least two fire engines in the distance running calls. Happens every year on the first cool night. And the second. And the third...
 
Must be people people are cooking more BB.

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I've heard a few chimney fires but seems like quite a few more of CO2 detectors, one call just went out. Guess the good thing is people have them.
 
Chimney fire calls will really start around here the first night we get down into the single digits. That's when those who don't frequent hearth.com open the stove up from a smoulder for the first time and learn the consequence of poor habits.

A close friend was one 2 years ago. He received a courtesy Chimfex from me after (thanks BB). He has an epa approved stove, does burn it hot, has an interior double wall chimney, but his wood is mediocre at best (tree cut years in advance but not bucked, split or stacked until about July of the current year). Despite my ragging on him, he was convinced that a once a year cleaning was enough. The cardboard from one 30 pack of Miller Lite proved my point.

His take on the lesson. No more cardboard in the stove :-/

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It is sad to hear about the chimney fires. One more thing that gives wood burning a black eye. So many hear of these things and immediately think burning wood for heat is dangerous.
 
Well lets be honest, burning wood for heat is dangerous for a good number of people. You should see what a renter can do in a couple months.
 
Speaking from experience (been a career FF for 13 years) I'll take a chimney fire any day over a furnace that catches fire due to malfunction or poor installation. A few squirts of water up the chimney from a PW can and then close the damper. Steam conversion does the rest! I have been on alot of fires and would have a hard time saying that wood burning stoves cause more fires than electrical heaters, gas furnaces and other heating methods. The one thing that wood burning does have that the other don't is alot more of the human error element!
 
I associate wood burning with drunks sliding off the road and into my neighbor's stone wall at a high speed. The Ford Expedition that cleared the wall and came to a rest teetering on his porch wall was the most impressive.
 
BrowningBAR said:
I associate wood burning with drunks sliding off the road and into my neighbor's stone wall at a high speed. The Ford Expedition that cleared the wall and came to a rest teetering on his porch wall was the most impressive.

:lol: Yes, Winter really brings out the best in some folks, eh?
 
Unfortunately, my brother had to set off the sirensl this past week. The victim of a improperly constructed lintel & slammer insert install. Chimney fine...wall, ceiling, & roof not. He's been there for over 5 yrs & only burned the insert 6 times. Luckily they were home at the time, & nobody injured. I did my proper Hearth.com preaching, several years ago, about inspecting & changing things if he wanted to burn. There will be a plus out of this! Between the insurance co. & stove shop, there will be a nice FPX 36 Elite installed. New job for me......drilling the "dry wood" verse into his head!
 
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