Do you have more DUST from burning with your wood stove

[JBinKC]

I would say its worse and the biggest drawback to wood burning especially if you use a fan to move air. I think the problem could be mitigated some from the stove design. I can say with my stove I wished it had a side door with a higher lip and/or andirons . It it is pretty much guaranteed when opening door of a Castine or a narrow profile stove or dumping the tiny ashpan some ash is going to dump out. I have a cordless hand vac with a hepa filter nearby which helps on the mess but if you have a situation where a log rolled forward you have to leave the mess until it safe to clean up

 

[branchburner]

especially if you use a fan to move air

That's what I attribute the extra dust to - the fans stirring it up. I think it the summer, more of it settles onto the floors and gets vacuumed. In the winter, the fans keep more aloft and it settles on furniture, mantle, etc.

 

[burleymike]

We have a ceiling fan and it certainly does distribute the dust around. I am going to build a filter out of a box fan and a 20x20x1 pleated furnace filter. I have heard they work well so I will give it a shot.

To be honest I don't think my house is more dusty that any other in this dusty farming community. A lot of our friends don't heat with wood and they seem to have just as much.