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Do I need to put out wood burning stove?
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Just moved in to a new house that has a wood burning stove and we used it for the first time over the weekend. At the end of the night the fire was still going, but we wanted to go to bed. Is there any 'quick and safe' way to put the fire out? Or in fact would it be safe if it is just the burning embers and the doors are shut? |
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Do I need to put out wood burning stove?
"spj_uk" wrote in message
oups.com... Just moved in to a new house that has a wood burning stove and we used it for the first time over the weekend. At the end of the night the fire was still going, but we wanted to go to bed. Is there any 'quick and safe' way to put the fire out? Or in fact would it be safe if it is just the burning embers and the doors are shut? We assume the stove conforms to the fire code where you live. Modern stoves can be left safely at bedtime to burn themselves out during the night. Do some homework in the library on the use of a wood stove. Burning depends on (1) draught = oxygen supply and (2) fuel supply. If there is enough draught the fire will burn until all the fuel is used up: if you shut down the draught the fire may go out before all the fuel is used. There is no quick and easy way to extinguish a wood stove. The main control is the draught. If you need to extinguish the fire fast some users throw baking soda onto it (to suppress combustion) but it would be just as quick to shovel the burning contents into a metal bin using a metal shover -- that is, if you have a safe place outdoors to which the fire can be carried. For stove management: (1) A safe chimney, cleaned regularly, is essential; (2) Burn only the right fuel (wood air-dried for at least two years); (3) For hour to hour management, the most useful tool is a thermometer (of either stove top or stovepipe temperature.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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Do I need to put out wood burning stove?
Assuming the woodstove was installed to building codes, is a modern safe
woodstove, has a modern safe installed to code chimney, and you have had the chimney cleaned yearly (Chimneys can get a build-up of "creosote" which can cause a "chimney fire". These fires can reach 3000 degrees and melt a chimney causing the fire to spread to the house.)... Then it should be safe to leave a burning fire while you sleep; HOWEVER you should have some experience with building fires in *your* stove and watching these fires like a hawk. Have a temperature gauge on the chimney, a temperature gauge on the top of the wood stove, and a temperature gauge on a nearby wall. You can watch the temperatures on the gauges as you build a fire, as the fire reaches its peak temperature, then as the fire slowly dies out. After gaining experience with your fires, you will know after building a fire what it is going to do temperature wise. If it is going to get hotter and you should stay up and keep an eye on it. Or if it is dying down, then temperatures are ok, and you can go to sleep. I have smoke detectors all over my house as well as a few carbon monoxide detectors. I also have a smoke detector in my attic in the area of my chimney. I also have fire extinguishers. I bought three of the same indoor/outdoor wireless thermometers and have the outdoor sensor on the wall near my woodstove. I have these thermometers located in other rooms of my house and I can tell what the temperature of the surrounding wall near my woodstove is while I am in other rooms of my house (outdoor sensor). So I am upstairs now on my computer and can tell that the wall next to my woodstove is a safe 95 degrees F. Temperatures inside a woodstove can reach 1000 degrees or more. And this "raging inferno" is all inside my living room! So I make darn sure I know what my fire is doing or is going to do. I also installed my woodstove to code, had it inspected by the building inspector, and had it added to my homeowners insurance policy. (The insurance company also came out and inspected my woodstove.) So I am covered by insurance if there is a fire and it burns down my house. The previous owners of your house may have installed everything to code or they may have cut corners (not uncommon). I would suggest having your woodstove and chimney inspected by an expert before using it, have the chimney cleaned, and be sure it is listed on your insurance policy. "spj_uk" wrote in message Hi, Just moved in to a new house that has a wood burning stove and we used it for the first time over the weekend. At the end of the night the fire was still going, but we wanted to go to bed. Is there any 'quick and safe' way to put the fire out? Or in fact would it be safe if it is just the burning embers and the doors are shut? |
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