Kindling with paint on it
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jb6l6gc
Minister of Fire
It releases toxic chemicals when burned and most likely is not a very good think for your woodstove, stovepipe and chimney. Lots of threads on here have touched on this subject in the past. Do some reading and form your own opinion. I wouldn't though.
St. Coemgen
Feeling the Heat
Because the flue gases from burning such can contain toxic hydrocarbons and toxic metals (old paint has lead or chromium for example). Do you really want your outside friends and neighbors breathing that? Or that all falling on the soil where your friends, neighbors and you maybe grow vegetables? And then eating your behavior?
Unless you are willing to do a chemical analysis of the paint on the wood before burning, just don't.
Unless you are willing to do a chemical analysis of the paint on the wood before burning, just don't.
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