On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:13:06 -0400, "Phil Kangas"
wrote:


"John B." wrote in
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:58:53 -0400,
wrote:


I grew up with the horizontal stove pipe system
across the ceiling of
themain living area of the house. The stove
itself was a cast iron
"box stove" about 24" long x 18" wide x 18" tall
on 6" leggs. We never
had problems with build up in the 25+ feet of
stove pipe
( 5 up, 12 across, 8 up through a second floor
bedroom to connect
with the chimney flue); of course, the pipes got
taked down every
month and any residue knocked free and dumped
out before they were put
back up, and, we burned only hard maple that had
been cut at least
twelve months before. Another factor was the
fact that both adults had
several years living with wood heat.

I expect that experience may have had a hand in
successful utilization
of stove pipes :-) Both my grandparents heated
their houses with wood,
for most of their lives. In fact my maternal
grandmother cooked with
wood, during the winter months, all her life.
--
Cheers,

John B.

There ya go, keep it clean! We only got to see the
bad ones.... ;)}
btw, check your dryer vent too ......


Every so often I see the blurb about "Don't use dryer sheets, they
plug up your lint trap - "See I'll show you that water won't even go
through it!" Well, the dryer sheet deposits a water repelling coating
to fibers, so I would be very surprised if water would go through a
fabric mesh coated with this repellant; OTOH, what are you trying
toput through this lint trap mesh? certainly not liquid H2O.
After 24 years in this house (using three to five dryer sheets every
week) I replaced the 30 year old laundry equipment and decided that
perhaps I should clean the vent ducts. Guess what? the ducting did
have a thin film of lint adhered to the metal 4" duct - maybe 1/16"
thick.
Mind you, I do use a dedicated "shop vac" in the laundry room
vicinity to collect lint from the lint trap after every load and it
doesn't have any problem sucking air through the fabric softener
coated lint trap mesh, mind you, this is an electricly heated dryer.
Junior, OTOH, had problems with his Gas fired system. The 1/2" mesh
screen in the outlet did build up a lint blockage that prevented air
flow. Now that he has removed the screen, and checks for and removes
buildup yearly, everything works great!