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I purchased a home last year with a Hotblast 1557 that is set up less than ideal. We used it last year during winter and it worked well enough, but not as well as I know it can. The current setup has one 8" supply line and one 6" supply line from the top into the main furnace supply line. The...

Wood stove exhaust damper/flue use, am I doing it right? My flue method: exhaust damper fully open when starting a fire and until I have a decent bed of coals, then fully closed. Open it whenever I add wood so I don't get smoke in the house. If there is still a decent bed of coals I generally...

Does anyone know much about these? I’ve read they are pretty good and pretty tough and put out a lot of heat. My house came with one , older home, it’s built into the fire place. I have yet to take the outer pieces off to check around for anything messed up. I had a chimney sweep out to just...

OK, anyone else besides me interested in doing this?

Ok so my homemade wood burning stove modeled after a fisher stove is almost finished...sucks when you only have a few weekends to work on stuff. Next project is a wood fired boiler to heat a 200 gallon outdoor tub. Over the summer I built a outdoor tub that is designed to look like a hot...

Should I burn my powdered creosote? It's that time of year again here in New York State. I did my flue clean routine today . . . working from the roof with the poles etc. Inside, I always place a small cardboard box inside the stove centered under the flue. After running the brushes up and...