Fine layer of ash ALL OVER the house

Has anyone used an Ash Dragon?

 

Understood! All is well!

 

I kinda cobbled one together out of some tin laying around...worked pretty well...not sure where its at right now actually...here's a pic of a real ash dragon for those not familiar...(they have some other nice stuff too BTW) our products

 

Scotty Overkill You're right for sure! You just can't stop it. I sure wasn't thinking of, or understanding the other things that were contributing on top of the things you mentioned. (morning exhaust fans for one) I've still got plenty to learn!
We do always keep the humidifier going. I hope everyone does! It takes a bunch of water but the health benefits alone are worth the effort.

 

Great- no harm, no foul and no ill will whatsoever. I think there were just a few miss- understood posts in there. I did not mean to offend anyone either but I was a little confused.

Well, I am always a little confused but perhaps a little more a few posts ago.

Brian

 

We normally run a 3 qt. iron pot on the stove full of water but this winter, it has not been nearly enough for whatever reason. ?? Added a much larger S.S. pot and are using both of them and still getting a bit of static electricity though not as much as before.

There is room on the stove for a third pot but honestly, the stove would start to look kinda' funny.

Brian

 

OK, Great! Lets all have a group hug, sing two courses of Kumbaya, and then get this ash problem taken care of!!!

 

Well, it IS hugging season.

It sounds like whoever suggested that the furnace might be sucking ash out of the stove when it is not running may well be right. As I mentioned, I live in an old and pretty open house so nothing short of a small hurricane would cause negative pressure in here.... it would never occur to me that would or could happen. But the gentleman said his house is relatively new, and they certainly do build them pretty snug these days so that could be the problem and if it is, the OAK strikes me as the first place to try to eliminate it.

The only other way I can think of is to close off the stove totally when not in use but today's EPA stoves do not allow that on the draft, and there is no stove pipe damper that I know of that would actually seal the smoke pipe either- they all have pretty large holes in them to prevent exactly that from happening. Which leaves an OAK I think.

Brian

 

I clean out my ash by shoveling it ever so gently into a covered ash pail. I lift the lid just enough to slide the shovel under it and slowly drop the shovel to the bottom of the pail and gently raise the shovel handle to "slide" the ash off, pull the shovel out kind of quick and close the lid. I repeat this over and over, sometimes I light some newspaper in a cold stove to start a draft that helps pull the small amount of dust I create up the stack. I get almost no ash dust in the house. Doing it with cold ash is much better than with hot ash which just wants to be airborne.

 

Oh no! Thong thingys.

 

That was completely unintentional. Honest.
No, really. Seriously.
Bueller?

 

My Lord, Yooper! LOL I think it goes something like that!

It is! I'll settle for a though.

How did I not make the correlation? papadave , all of that thong thingy stuff was LOTS of fun too. You were feeding the thong, unintentionally. LOL

 

I use same exact process .
5 gallon mini trash can