Don't burn too much wrapping paper in your indoor stove/furnace.

[BaldSawRunner]

My mom told me this morning that a house fire occured about 15 miles from where she lives. Seems the family had Christmas last night because someone in the family has stage 3 cancer. One of the boys, mom said she heard he is 15, took all of the gift wrap paper and put it in the wood stove and everyone went to bed. I guess the flu got too hot and caught the house on fire. As far as I know, everyone is ok.

Just a word of caution is all

 

[ericjeeper]

Sounds like the flue was due for a cleaning

Actually a hand full of newspapers daily will keep the creosote burned out of the chimney.

 

[willsaw4beer]

Actually a hand full of newspapers daily will keep the creosote burned out of the chimney.

+1

 

[husky455rancher]

back when i just used my fireplace i would see all kinds or flaming crap shoot out the top of my chimney. i never measured it but the chimneys pretty tall i would guess 20ft at least.

 

[Mkarlson]

Couple nights ago I threw couple pieces of wood in the stove, seconds later I noticed half dozen embers floating around outside the window. Was windy and cold I really didnt want to go out and take a look but I had to. Everything seemed ok, but now I cant help but wonder how many times that has happened and I didnt notice it.

 

[stihl sawing]

Actually a hand full of newspapers daily will keep the creosote burned out of the chimney.

I will have to try that, Thanks for the tip.

 

[ericjeeper]

hey if you have not cleaned your chimney.....

I will have to try that, Thanks for the tip.

Please do not start this habit with a nasty creosoted chimney... The flaming paper starts a fire in the chimney.... purposely.. cause there is just a little.. Not a lot..

 

[stihl sawing]

Please do not start this habit with a nasty creosoted chimney... The flaming paper starts a fire in the chimney.... purposely.. cause there is just a little.. Not a lot..

yeah i see what your talking about, It could really get a chimney fire going with a good buildup. Mine is actually clean right now, I took the pipe off a couple of days ago and cleaned it. Just before this cold weather hit.

 

[laynes69]

You beat me to it. It could spell disaster in a dirty chimney. Also just a nice hot fire in the morning for a few minutes, and night will also help keep the chimney clean.

 

[Bl8tant]

I've been burning wood all my life, and never experienced a chimney fire.......until last year. Due to a warm spell, I had been running the insert on low for a couple days. My wife started to throw an empty cereal box in the trash....I said "Hey, I'll just burn it instead of filling the trash can with an empty box". About 2 minutes later our stove sounded light a heavy breathing dragon ! I ran outside and watched the show....it looked like an Apollo rocket trying to take off upside down. It burned so hot it started to melt the steel chimney cap and cracked all of the clay tile flue. We could hear the tiles when they would crack.
$2500 bucks later we have a stainless steel flue liner with glass batting top to bottom.
I still burn the occasional box/paper just to initiate small fire to burn off any minor creosote deposits. I think the real key is to have at least one good hot fire per day (even if it warms up outside and the house gets as hot as a greenhouse!).

 

[ropensaddle]

yeah i see what your talking about, It could really get a chimney fire going with a good buildup. Mine is actually clean right now, I took the pipe off a couple of days ago and cleaned it. Just before this cold weather hit.

Many of these guys are burning different wood that builds up more creosote.
I burn straight dried hickory when it gets real cold and open that puppy up
for a hour or two burns all the trash out. I only burn oak and hickory.

 

[chowdozer]

Light paper like wrapping paper can make it all of the way up the chimney and come out the top still burning. Landing on leaves, etc. and there you go! Are your gutters clean?

We got one cup of dry creosote when we cleaned the chimney this fall before firing up for the first time. The cleaning before that was at the beginning of last years heating season.

Burn safe.

12" of snow here. best time to have a chimney fire

 

[Mike Van]

I'd never have wood shingles on a house where I burned wood, I know of a few that met their end because of it. I run my syrup evaporator with the draft door wide open, always sparks out the top of the chimney.

 

[Moss Man]

For some reason, the chimney we have now does not build up creosote. The last house I had was a different story, the chimney there had to be cleaned every year. It built up at the section where the chimney went through to the second floor that had no heat. The theory was that the temp difference cooled the gasses at that point and thus the creosote build up. That theory doesn't always hold up though, the chimney we have now passes from the heated living space to the freezing attic and no build up....go figure.