So growing up, we had an old franklin double door wood stove. no catalyst, no secondary burn - just a box and a flue... we would burn treated wood and laminated cardboard to get the fires going. my parents still burn to this day in the stove. there were no ill effects to doing so that i ever noticed.
so to present day - i bought my home a year ago and just installed a hearthstone mansfield. the manual instructs you not to burn any of this stuff, so i've been sticking to untrearted kindling and unlaminated newspapers to get her going.
i understand the higher emissions as a result of burning these materials and i could see how it would mess things up in a catalytic stove, but what harm will it do to my non-catalytic stove? would it mess up the secondary burn tubes? cause increased creosote formation? just wondering the reasons it is ill advised.
so to present day - i bought my home a year ago and just installed a hearthstone mansfield. the manual instructs you not to burn any of this stuff, so i've been sticking to untrearted kindling and unlaminated newspapers to get her going.
i understand the higher emissions as a result of burning these materials and i could see how it would mess things up in a catalytic stove, but what harm will it do to my non-catalytic stove? would it mess up the secondary burn tubes? cause increased creosote formation? just wondering the reasons it is ill advised.