In conclusion: There is nothing wrong with this instructable. I have not cleaned my chimney in over 10 years (I check it every year) and there's never a build up. Have your fire smaller and have it as hot as you can get in the fire box, although a little more time consuming having to tend the fire, you'll use less wood, you'll get more heat out of the wood used and your chimney won't get dirty. Once my fire is going I have no smoke coming out of my chimney.Īs oldfatnbroke said overloading your fire box and trying to burn your wood slowly is the cause of build up in your chimney and chimney fires.
Clean burning wood fire theory is that the wood and all it's resinous vapours and gasses should be burnt before leaving the stove if not before getting too far up the flue. Some with multiple smaller flues to reclaim more heat from the chimney gases, as this is where all of your heat lost goes.Īnd taking heat from the fire box is far worse than taking it from the chimney. I am very familiar with wood stoves, I have designed and built a few too. Hmmm, you can't change stupid and you can't change someone who thinks he knows it all, but it was a good lesson for him! Lol's. Sorry for any confusion! Wow! Plastic on top of a woodstove? NOT a good idea.aside from the stench and fire hazard it could create, the plastic might come off, but depending on the dye they used in the colors, it could permanently stain your stove too! My ex didn't realize the stove was still warm and placed a loaf of bread on the stove.yep, it melted mighty-quick and the purple stain is still on my brand new stove. When using my dryer, I don't have to fill the pots on the wood stove because the dryer adds all the moisture I need to the house-while drying the clothes all that moisture has to go somewhere, hence the use of the "plastic box" in the winter. I made the comment about the water because my wood stove dries out my house so much I usually have 2-3 CAST IRON pots on top of my wood stove. I'm sorry, I guess I should have explained myself better.this "plastic box" with the water in it, is used on your clothes dryer. (You can find these units in places like the big blue box store.) Like I said though, keep an eye on HOW much moisture you add to the house! Good Luck. One more thing, this works great if you need to dry clothes and you have a woodstove.no need to add water to your pots on top of the woodstove, this adds the moisture to your house that the dry heat of the woodstove takes away. Mine was in a tiny laundry room and it actually created enough condensation on a glass door, I had to space out my laundry-drying time! Lol's. If you're going to be drying 3 loads or more, keep an eye on the moisture content in the house. DO remember, though, with the water added to the bottom (and trust me, you NEED to use the water to help capture all that itty-bitty fluff) the it adds a lot of moisture into the home. They sell a plastic square, vented on top-dryer hose gets put into the pre-fab cut-out, put some water in the bottom of it, turn your dryer on, and viola! The excess heat from your dryer now gets vented into your home. all of the pieces need to fit as tight as possible because of the the mere fact that it does involve high temperatures and it cannot leak. This is how I did it.Throughout the project, the one thing to keep in mind is safety. There are a few different ways you could go about building one of these. Mine has been installed for nearly a month now and I love it. There is a little work involved, but, I think the time invested was well worth it.
I tried to use as much re-claimed material as possible,just because that's the way I like to build. I do love metalwork and welding so I had access to a wire welder and sheet metal. Being a do-it yourselfer, I decided that I could build one just as, or, more effective. I also understood how pricey these units are. My father had a wood stove which was equipped with a heat re-claimer which was a factory made unit, so I did understand how it was built and how much heat they actually scavenge from the rising smoke. The stove is equipped with a blower which was factory installed.
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I discovered in the barn, the stove which had been used but was suffering from a crack in the heat box itself.After some welding and cleaning up it was ready to re-install. The chimney had been installed correctly and everything looked ready for a wood stove. I recently moved into a home that had been using wood heat.