Canadian Border VT, that is an interesting floor plan you got there, but great on the stairwell as a cold air return, I've been trying to figure...
I'm with you on the ash. The house is a center center hall cape, upstairs are 2 bedrooms with dormers. Downstairs is fairly open, I put a thru...
I currently have a coal stove, my first post is the one titled, coal stove burning wood and chimney fires, that I can burn wood in, but it's a...
lol, yes, and away from house and cars. I throw a lid on the can to minimize the cloud.
I buy kimmel in 50#bags for 290$ ton. they are typically wet which is great, keeps the dust down, however I have over 3 tons left from last year...
I had to check the kitchen queen you mentioned, those look awesome. I've never seen anything like it, although my dad used to talk about...
Coaly, thanks for the info. I figured that's what I was doing and what was going on but I never put it together with the air over the fire knobs....
yes, if I shut it down the fire dies out moderately in the box, the top air knobs are designed to allow air in. The chimney fire goes it...
do you guys think this is characteristic/design of this stove or do I have something else going on?
I agree with you guys, this thing scares the s##t out of me. I'm going to burn coal to get rid of the 4ish tons I have and at the end of the...
so I have a theory on my"chimney fires". since the flue is practically clean with no real creosote build up, is it possible the stove is so...
kaptjaq, "basically coal..." that's the conclusion I'm coming too, even though they say it burns both it only burns 1 properly. my top knobs...
I tried lighting from the top and bottom yesterday, much better results, my kindling was gone in 10 min. I'd like to do the criss cross thing...
you guys had me rolling on the log pic, was debating putting up a pic of a turd, yea I may be middle aged but I'm still in eight grade. lol flat...
Naahhhh, the sweep is a great guy, he's been at this for 30+ years and he knows his stuff. My boiler is on it's own chimney and chimney liner....
Ok, so had the sweep by Friday. He brushed out a whopping 1/8 to 1/4 cup of fine powder creosote. He basically said there is no reason I should...
KaptJaq, once your burning at the level you want, what are you targeting, do you close the bottom knobs? to the rest of you guys, thanks for...
Ok, so the consensus is, wood is not ready and I'm burning too cool and too slow to get up to temp. I haven't tried burning without the...
Papadave, I was thinking the tubes may be hurting my flue temps, but wasn't sure it's blowing enough air. If I wasn't so lazy I would run some...
I snapped some pictures today of the set up. It is hard to see details on the chimney cap; it has a mesh screen around it. I borrowed the MM,...
