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learned another one today,,, learned NOT to use coal in my woodburner. COal is NOT supposed to be used inside airtight woodstoves, or the creasote builds up FASY.GUess what,,,,not a chimney fire, but smoke INSIIDE my house,, coming from the seems of the chimney. WHat a mess,, have to have the fan on, blowing out, ,and the front door open. SO, IM sitting here, with the door open,, in sweat pants and a thinck flannel shirt on, warm slippers,,,, thinking abnout a blanket soon.
ONly thing I can figure , is that the creasote, has built up around the seems, and when I get a hor fire going, it burns it out, cause the smoke.
Sure, bring work gloves this weekend
-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), November 06, 2002
Glad to hear you didn't have a fire in the chimney. My folks burnt coal when I was young but it was an actual furnace but I would have thought it could be used too.Too bad you didn't have any hams ready to smoke, kill two birds at a time. :) Stay warm; I still don't have heat but it's only going to 35 tonight so it's not too cold. Maybe tomorrow the part will come in.
-- Kathy (beckoningwinds@yahoo.com), November 06, 2002.
climbed up on the roof,, to check the chimney,, WAS FULL OF SOOT,, I had just checked it a month or so ago,, and it only needs cleaning every 2 years. Coal can sure mess things up. So I cleaned that, came back inside, ,started some paper on fire, to see if it would draw better,,,N O P E
was worse,, didnt draw a bit,,,, so I dismantles the inside, firebrick, air tubes,,, anbd got about 5 pounds more soot out of it. FInally got it all back together,, working fine, jsut have to burn the creatote out of the seems now,,
-- Stan (sopal@net-pert.com), November 07, 2002.