Non-Cat Stoves & Scrap Wood?

[leeave96]

With my new home addition, I'm going to have a goodly amount of scrap lumbar drops and some painted scrap wood from the original structure.

Back in the old days, we'd just burn that stuff in the woodstove without a second thought. I wouldn't dare use this stuff with my cat stove, but what about the non-cat stove? Any reason I can't use this stuff in the Englander 30 - it has secondary burn tubes.

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Wood Heat Stoves]

I don't think painted wood will hurt the the stove, unless you overfire it. I still wouldn't burn painted wood because of the pollutants it will put into the air. There's not much point in burning a clean burning EPA stove if you burn wood with contaminates on it.

 

[Adabiviak]

Do you know that there's no salts or fungicides in the scrap? At fire operating temperatures, these can apparently be corrosive. I don't think they'll chew through your fireplace before your eyes, but I've cut that sort of wood out of my stove's diet.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

We burned a lot of cut-offs in our stove this spring but I did not put anything painted nor treated in the stove. It works good for just taking off the chill with a small fire.

 

[bogydave]

My old stove, (non cat) I burned lots of scrap wood. No painted or treated wood though.
Just seem logical to not risk contaminating the stove or polluting the air with unknown chemicals.
Just burn dry plain wood scraps & pieces, & black & white newspapers & you'll be fine.

 

[firefighterjake]

I don't think painted wood will hurt the the stove, unless you overfire it. I still wouldn't burn painted wood because of the pollutants it will put into the air. There's not much point in burning a clean burning EPA stove if you burn wood with contaminates on it.

+1 . . . only unpainted wood scraps go into my woodstove . . . and no particle board, plywood, etc.