Mildly sweet chemical smell outside

[bholler]

I love fossil fuels . I can't live without them. And neither can you virtue signaling renewable energy lovers.
Everything that is so called renewable is presently using a net negative amount of fossil fuel reduction overall, not to mention the afterlife of dead batteries etc. that will be sent to some far off 3rd world country to be dealt with so us first worlder virtuous can feel smug and fuzzy like we made a difference.....LOL....Not to mention the thousands of tax dollars that are being sucked out of already struggling families to fund this renewable fantacy world. but i guess i'm enough off track that your reply will be to give me a time out....LMAO🤣 sorry fe


Did you read your reply?...🤣

You really need to do some more research on the actual facts involved in these issues. You are clearly just parroting the talking points put out by the fossil fuel industry.

Now you are absolutely correct no one can live without fossil fuels at this point. It just isn't possible. But that doesn't mean reducing reliance on them isn't a good thing.

 

[stoveliker]

I love fossil fuels . I can't live without them. And neither can you virtue signaling renewable energy lovers.
Everything that is so called renewable is presently using a net negative amount of fossil fuel reduction overall, not to mention the afterlife of dead batteries etc. that will be sent to some far off 3rd world country to be dealt with so us first worlder virtuous can feel smug and fuzzy like we made a difference.....LOL....Not to mention the thousands of tax dollars that are being sucked out of already struggling families to fund this renewable fantacy world. but i guess i'm enough off track that your reply will be to give me a time out....LMAO🤣 sorry fe


Did you read your reply?...🤣

I'm sorry, yes I read it as I wrote it.
If you don't get it, I suggest you stop trolling because you make yourself look ridiculous. Try to borrow a book from the library on logical reasoning. Try thinking about relative quantities. Try thinking about economics.

You might learn something without making yourself look like a toddler talking grown-up stuff.

I'm sorry to be abrasive, but that's what you get when you laugh at me when you evidently don't have one iota of knowledge of what you are laughing about. I'm done with you.

 

[begreen]

What built that hydroelectric generator and all that supports it from heavy equipment to move earth to build the plant right down to the gas that got the men there to build and maintain the plant. SMH

Enough with the politics. Ya'll best get off of the internet and stop burning wood. They are sucking natural resources.
Meanwhile, this does not help the OP at all.

 

[EbS-P]

Need help troubleshooting a smell. This winter/spring, I've been smelling an occasional slightly chemical but mostly sweet smell outside when I have a fire. Not inside, just outside when I take my dogs out. Almost like a perfume, but slightly chemical.

This season, I've been burning Idaho Energy Logs and one quarter of a Super Cedar exclusively. So my wood is consistent and bone dry. Typically, run my flue temp up to about 700 before turning down where it settles at 550 - 600. Stove top peaks between 600 - 700 before settling in at 550. I've got it dialed like a science.

I've inspected the Chimney from the roof and I don't see any signs of burning or melting. Creosote is a very thin, dry friable texture. Outer wall flue temps range from 200ish at the bottom to 150 - 175 where the pipe meets the ceiling. I do see whisps of smoke during peak burn where there is usually no visible smoke at all, but not much.

Other factors to consider: the previous homeowners who renovated my home installed a rubber lined, commercial roof. By the home inspector's account, it's a higher quality, more durable roof than most residential homes, and when I had the stove installed, the installer subcontracted a specialist in the roofs to install and seal the exterior pipe.

Maybe it's off gassing a bit when it heats up?

I read the thread about the guy with the Vermont catalytic stove but that didn't give me much more info. Just posting in case someone else has this issue or experience with it?

Have you ever burned cherry? It has a sweet smell I think. Very different if you haven’t ever burned it. I could see where NIELs doesn’t always have a say or know what logs end up in a batch.

 

[snobuilder]

Enough with the politics. Ya'll best get off of the internet and stop burning wood. They are sucking natural resources.
Meanwhile, this does not help the OP at all.

Sorry you don't like my posts as much as those who challenge my stance.

I understand your need to stay on topic but please don't just lump everything into politics, lest you shut down this entire site with complete hypocrisy due to the fact that most of the conversation on here is related to " politics" via the EPA (government/politics) stove standards.

And I stand by my comment about the sweet smell coming from the manufactured logs and the chemicals that hold them together.

 

[snobuilder]

but I will leave ya'll with this....clean burning Natural gas is the answer. I uses the least amount of minerals per K/H than any other source known to MAN kind.

 

[begreen]

And I stand by my comment about the sweet smell coming from the manufactured logs and the chemicals that hold them together.

There are no chemical binders in them, just the natural lignins present in the wood fiber.

 

[bholler]

but I will leave ya'll with this....clean burning Natural gas is the answer. I uses the least amount of minerals per K/H than any other source known to MAN kind.

That simply is not true.

 

[peakbagger]

Simple Solution - Do not feed the trolls. The ignore function works pretty well on this site.