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Don Phillipson wrote:
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But if you build a small fire in a large stove too often, your flu
pipe/chimney will not run hot enough and will build up creosote much
much faster creating a dangerous situation. A chimney fire just waiting
to happen.


But in modern (double-wall) steel chimneys chimney fires are seldom
dangerous. (I have known firemen recommend them as the best way
to remove creosote from a chimney.) Points of danger a
1 -- obsolete chimneys that do not meet current safety codes;
2 -- the release from the chimney-top of burning material that
may fall onto the roof, adjacent buildings, dry treetops etc.


Will this stove have double wall stove pipe?

As far as purposely creating a chimney fire, yes I did it all the time
up in PA. Every few days to a week, after it was good and hot I'd open
the door and the flames went up the flue and the very thin layer of
creosote was burnt off. After 2 years I had someone out to clean it and
he said it's about as clean as it will ever get. Oh, and I even burnt a
lot of pine wood scraps. Run them hot and they stay clean.