Easy way to set your house on fire with a side serving of flare

[4x4prepper]

Easy way to set your house on fire with a side serving of flare!

 

[Slimdusty]

Ok, more info please, i see a torched shop vac filter sitting on the fender of a riding lawn mower….? Maybe thats the mower’s air filter…..🤷‍♂️

 

[begreen]

Hot coals sucked into a conventional shop vac?

 

[bholler]

Hot coals sucked into a conventional shop vac?

Professional vacs are just as exciting when you do that

 

[4x4prepper]

For about 20 years I cleaned my "cold" chimney with a vacuum cleaner and rags.

I never had to use a brush until this year. I ended up having to blow some of the creosote and ash towards the stove instead of sucking it out. Inside the stove I saw a small ember or two (when I thought the stove was clean and cold) and did not think it would hurt anything to vacuum it with the ash powder and creosote since I was going empty the vac afterwards and then clean or change the filter.

Flames started to shoot out of the vacuum exhaust like a sparkler, thankfully the rug did not catch on fire and the back door was open right behind it. I pushed the wet/dry vac outside, opened the top as quick as possible, pulled the filter off and tossed it off the back deck. Then I went down and drowned the smouldering filter in rain water.

 

[Slimdusty]

For about 20 years I cleaned my "cold" chimney with a vacuum cleaner and rags.

I never had to use a brush until this year. I ended up having to blow some of the creosote and ash towards the stove instead of sucking it out. Inside the stove I saw a small ember or two (when I thought the stove was clean and cold) and did not think it would hurt anything to vacuum it with the ash powder and creosote since I was going empty the vac afterwards and then clean or change the filter.

Flames started to shoot out of the vacuum exhaust like a sparkler, thankfully the rug did not catch on fire and the back door was open right behind it. I pushed the wet/dry vac outside, opened the top as quick as possible, pulled the filter off and tossed it off the back deck. Then I went down and drowned the smouldering filter in rain water.

Close call! Glad you were able to handle the situation!

 

[4x4prepper]

Yes, glad I caught it, my wife would have been very upset if I burned her house down (her house - my garage). There were two small and two big fire extinguishers handy if I needed them, plus, a garden hose 30 feet away outside. Spent the night awake making sure the rug did not self ignite or something.

Just a warning to others not to discount the risk factor of even a small ember when it gets blown into a paper air filter at over 100 mph.