Please help me correct any bad habits I may be starting...
I have been burning since Monday night (about 4 days).
I started with a brand new insulated flue (clean).
A few break in fires, many hot fires, and a couple nights of slow, somewhat smokey (I'm guessing, can't see the smoke at night) fires that were probably lower temperatures than they should have been.
All the wood I'm burning is 12-17%, the flue is 14' from stovetop to cap, and outside temps around 40-50 degrees.
I pulled the flue cap the second day and found carmel colored sticky stuff in the pipe, not thick, just like if you had wiped a rag with paint on it inside the flue.
Today (two days later) after trying harder to burn mostly hot fires, I checked again, here are the results;
The flue and cap are painted brown, but you can easily see the other brown stuff.
Here is another one of the drippings.
The inside of the cap, and the inside of the top of the flue.
The brown stuff is very thin, and this time not as sticky or wet.
Rob
I have been burning since Monday night (about 4 days).
I started with a brand new insulated flue (clean).
A few break in fires, many hot fires, and a couple nights of slow, somewhat smokey (I'm guessing, can't see the smoke at night) fires that were probably lower temperatures than they should have been.
All the wood I'm burning is 12-17%, the flue is 14' from stovetop to cap, and outside temps around 40-50 degrees.
I pulled the flue cap the second day and found carmel colored sticky stuff in the pipe, not thick, just like if you had wiped a rag with paint on it inside the flue.
Today (two days later) after trying harder to burn mostly hot fires, I checked again, here are the results;
The flue and cap are painted brown, but you can easily see the other brown stuff.
Here is another one of the drippings.
The inside of the cap, and the inside of the top of the flue.
The brown stuff is very thin, and this time not as sticky or wet.
Rob