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  1. H

    New wood stove install, safety question

    Hi, I just had a new Regency 5-1150 installed in my tinderbox death trap ( all original 1969 Lamplighter mobile home), and I was hoping I could get some input from people on here who are waaaaaay smarter than I am in this department? I’m adding some photos, just wanted to know if everything...
  2. coffeecup86

    New house, new pellet stove. Lots of questions.

    My husband and I just bought a home 6 weeks ago, which came with a pellet stove as the secondary source of heat. The poor thing was pretty ill kept and very full of brown dust/soot? The fan and blower was caked with it. The first week we ran it everything was getting covered in this brown dust...
  3. Karottop

    Down Draft from Second Chimney Flue

    Hey Everyone, I'm new to wood burning and just got finished with a renovation that included two wood burning inserts on the top and bottom floors of the house. I lit the basement wood stove yesterday and everything went very well except we had a bunch of smoke pouring into the upstairs. I...
  4. iluvjazznjava

    Maybe bottom block off plates aren't always a good thing ...

    Hello everyone, There was the first bit of chill in the air this morning and I looked at my woodpile as I went out to work and realized that it won't be long before I'm feeding it into my stove. It also reminded me that there was a topic that I meant to put out on the forum over the summer and...