Ok guys i have a question after a few days of burning and i am cleaning out the ash. What is the hard lava rock looking chunks under the ash i dont have it happen in my big stove just my little one. Any help would be good thanks
Could it be creosote? Hope not, cuz your chimney inside would be full of it. Is it more like charcoal?...unburnt remnants of wood? Pics?
Well now, If I had read that post, I would already have been educated for this post! I was wondering why GA posted the "sit back and wait" smiley!!
I get those in the lower chamber of my boiler. They are hard dark gray/black chunks that break apart easily, correct? I think in my case it is from some of the ash getting hit with really high heat from the nozzle for a few hours and that is what is left. Is your stove an epa type with air injectors?
I get these sometimes, but they are really light colored like ash. I always assumed it had to do with weight of wood ontop of the ashes and the heat of the stove causing something similar to sandstone. I was using the popcorn smiley because I am curious to what exactly is going on and I dont think its a simple answer.
We get them but not very often. I don't think we've had any for over a year now. When we get them, they are hard rather than the soft that most report.
I have a pic somewhere here that I cannot locate, it was after we pulled the insert out to discover it was not vented properly. Though I had a chimney sweep out the previous fall, 50 years of creosote chunks fell out when my husband swept it.
I get the light brown (same color as the ash) ones, that seem kind of soft. EPA stove so I know it's not creosote as there is no way for it to drop from the chimney, plus I run it hot and check it.
I find them after my wife has been burning for a few days while I'm gone but I never get them. I think this is because she is a throw a log on the fire burner and I am a batch burner.
