Created Date: 1/1/2003 12:00:00 AM.

BillSchiller: Because I’m processing wood now for this year and next year, would it be better to split the wood smaller so it dries faster and I stand a chance of having dryer wood by mid winter? The smaller split wood will dry faster. But you may want bigger chunks to burn overnight on a good bed of coals. The other thing I can suggest for drying wood is to bring in a fair quantity in the winter, possibly a week’s worth. It will dry very fast indoors as warm indoor air gets very dry in subzero conditions.

As a spinoff it will serve to humidify to a degree. Okay, I found a Federal Airtight wood stove. Model FA224CCML I bought it for $200 and sold our parlor stove for $100. It doesn’t have a secondary air system. What it has is what they call an ‘over fire’ and ‘under fire’ air inlets. It is equipped with a 6'x 2' catalytic combustor which appears to have some life in it. I found some new ones on eBay for $135.

If anyone has input on this stove, I would appreciate it. What I do want to know is, when I removed the parlor stove to put this in place, there was about 1/4'-1/2' layer of soot up the 18’ wall single wall pipe inside the house. I knocked as much as I could and the pipe was considerably lighter after. I didn’t notice any creosote, just charcoal dust. Do I need to worry about firing up the stove for the first time? Is this normal? Will it cause a chimney fire?

I vote for running a chimney brush through the chimney. There will likely be complaints arising from one part of the process or another, that fine soot is worse than drywall dust. If you can, maybe brush the vertical part from above, then after allowing the soot time to settle, carefully take the horizontal section outside and brush and dump it on the ground. If nothing else, the work will improve your heat transfer from the horizontal pipe. I am not certain if the soot is a high fire hazard, but any accumulation of combustible material in a chimney is cause for concern.

Taken to a certain degree it should spontaneously burn, as Wayne observes with intake “events”. But on this scale and draft it could be quite the event.

Beautiful stove, btw, you got a steal of a deal there, perfect size for your home, and should save you half the wood you burnt last year, with much more restful nights. Another month and you should be putting that unit to good use in your neck of the woods, days are getting shorter. I wish you said you where looking at that stove before you bought it. I have the same stove. It is designed as a wood or coal burning stove. Bagan keyboard for myanmar8723345 computer.

So Naturally it fails at both. As to the question of the chimney clean it with a brush brush from the bottom.