On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:37:10 -0500, "Charles Schuler"
wrote:


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And no, you shouldn't ever start a chimney
fire on purpose.



How would you start one? Not that I want to know how to start one, but
rather how to avoid starting one. When I startup my stove, there are some
good flames entering the chimney from the stove until I get the fire going
and close the air intakes down.

You can start a chimney fire, if there is a coating of creosote to support
it. If you want to find out, load your stove with hot burning stuff and
give it all the air that you can (not recommended).

It is an urban myth ... start a chimney fire once a year as a self-cleaning
method. Not recommended!

It's probably a misapprehension of the advice to burn long hot fires,
to warm the chimney enough to keep creasote from condensing there.

I dunno why you'd wanna do that, though, when you can scrape it
off with a wire brush and use it to treat your fence posts when
nobody's looking.