Just had a chimney fire with my BK King!

[bholler]

So how would they avoid it after the warm days? Cant sweep after every warm day.

Use proper burning techniques and dry wood all the time regardless of outside temps

 

[blacktail]

and sweep up the stuff that falls out,

If it's falling into your stove, just burn it with the next fire.

 

[Ludlow]

Use proper burning techniques and dry wood all the time regardless of outside temps

No. Assuming the deed has been done for a day or two. Now what?

 

[bholler]

No. Assuming the deed has been done for a day or two. Now what?

What do you mean?

 

[Ludlow]

They burned low and slow for a day or two on a chimney that was clean to begin with. So now what?

 

[jetsam]

They burned low and slow for a day or two on a chimney that was clean to begin with. So now what?

Now it has a little crud in it and it's that much closer to needing to be swept. When I am burning sub prime wood, I sweep every time the stove is cool enough in shoulder season. Takes 10 minutes. Even if you don't get much crud out of the pipe, it's 10 minutes well spent.

 

[Ludlow]

Thought maybe there was a ramping technique to avoid a chimfire. Maybe burn a CSL?

 

[Ludlow]

Not uncommon at all really. We just had a few warm days where people shut back really hard and today it was cold and windy. They opened up their stoves and lit off the chimney. We see it every year.

How many were masonry, class a?

 

[bholler]

How many were masonry, class a?

The only one we have gotten to so far was masonry

 

[bholler]

They burned low and slow for a day or two on a chimney that was clean to begin with. So now what?

No one said it was clean to start with. If it needs cleaned clean it

 

[3fordasho]

The bk stoves in bypass shoot flames right up the flue.

My Woodstock Fireview was set up the same way, and with the bypass open the flames could shoot right up the pipe, the flue temp could flash from something reasonable to pegged on the temp gauge in what seemed like seconds. I had the temp probe about 18" above the stove. The set up with a straight up pipe right off the stove was the worst for this. I also had another install where the pipe went straight out the back of the stove thru a wall thimble then up, that set up was not as touchy. I experienced two minor chimney fires with the first set up, both with lots of funny noise and hot smells coming from the connector pipe, bypass was open both times.