Managing overnight burns

I bet it does! It may use more wood, but you can get a good night sleep with those burn times and be warm when you wake up.

 

OK, I confess that I do have more pine and aspen in the mix at the beginning and end of the season, and more tamarack and douglas fir in the middle of the winter. But it is a mix throughout, as even in the deep of winter I sometimes want a quick and hot fire ... and we got some really cold temps in September!

Greg

 

When I bought the house 11/2000, it had a Fisher Grandma Bear and electric heat. It was a cold winter and I was buying "seasoned" firewood from newspaper ads. They way I'd get an overnight burn was to turn the air controls all the way down and yes, in the morning there would be enough coals for a restart. The Fisher would put out raging heat with the air controls open, but burning wet wood with the controls damped down, that thing was a creosote factory. I registered on the other site 02/2001 to try and learn more about wood stoves and while there was a wealth of helpful information, nothing nowhere no how beats truly dry and seasoned wood for safe and clean burning. Upon cleaning the chimney in April 2001, a black avalanche came down. I now have three cords of dry chestnut oak that the Ideal Steel loves to eat. When she is doing her thing on a cat burn, the only visible emissions are small wisps of steam and usually nothing at all. Contrast that to the smoke dragon with wet wood which looked like a dang steel smelter. My mistakes taught me that to get an overnight burn, start with dry wood and then focus on stove settings.