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    Smelly room days after fire

    I’ve recently had a brand new Regency cat wood stove insert installed. I’ve had five 20-30 minute “break-in” fires and one 4-hour fire that stayed within 500-750 degrees the entire time. The first fire consisted of kindling and a few pieces of not ideal lumber (redwood, pine, etc). Since then...
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    Blaze King Ashford 30 Acrid, Paint Smell

    Good afternoon, This is my first posting to this site. Thank you in advance. I had a Blaze King Ashford 30 installed in March of 2022. We did not run it much that season and pretty much only burned pine and almond. In the fall of 2022, when we started using it more, we started getting a...