woodstove creosote uses?

Northvale - PA · Feb 2, 2014

so I brushed out the chimney pipe and have about 5 gallons of creosote crumbs. Is this useful for any kind of fertilizer, etc? Compost it? good? bad? I always hate tossing organic stuff in the trash.

JayinNY · Feb 2, 2014

I mix mine in with the ashes and put it on the driveway/ walkways for traction on ice. I don't mean paved areas. Dirt paths and such.

waltdavies · Feb 2, 2014

Use one of those creosote logs every once in while and save your house and cleaning time.
Walt

D beatty · Feb 2, 2014

I take mine and scatter in the field behind house.

Corner Post · Feb 2, 2014

Use it for a chimney fire at night. You get to see stove pipe glowing red hot, beautiful sparks and flames shooting out the top, and the lights and sirens of the fire department. LOL

T in NE · Feb 2, 2014

Toss a couple aluminum cans in on top of your fire every time you stoke it. Does the same thing.

Old weldor · Feb 2, 2014

Your wife will love it when you track that creosote in the house on the carpet!

dahlin · Feb 2, 2014

Throw it back into your stove and reburn it. It burns in the chimney so there is no reason you can't burn it in the stove. I've done it many times, it's just more BTU's. Just have good coals when you do this.

Janicholson · Feb 2, 2014

Other than the (now obsolete) medicinal and food "smoking" uses it had in the past, it is pretty much waste. I would tru=y to compress it into pellets and use it to start the fires it came from. It does burn well! Putting it on a walkway might track it into the domestic environs. A risky issue there! Jim

guido · Feb 2, 2014

Hello northvale,

Use it as a fire starter. A couple of table spoons will gets you going....

Guido.

Russ from MN · Feb 2, 2014

If you got that much creosote you must be burning high moisture wood, that is asking for trouble!

Texasmark1 · Feb 2, 2014

Burning non-seasoned wood and not getting the stove hot are my two sources of such. I do both now and burning a couple of cords of wood a year, I sometimes wire brush out the stack every other year rather than every year.

Mark

Anonymous-0 · Feb 2, 2014

Dissolve it in turpentine, and paint outdoor lumber with it. Warning: it works as an antifungal, and insecticide, thus the government banned it!

Northvale - PA · Feb 3, 2014

have you tried turpentine? How about diesel or boiled linseed oil?

Anonymous-0 · Feb 3, 2014

You might kinda have to experiment around, a bit, most of the creosote we knew as kids, was an emulsion, a mixture of oil, soap and water.

Traditional Farmer · Feb 3, 2014

Best to use it as a warning if you keep burning your stove the same way you'll eventually have a chimney fire.

Dr. Walt · Feb 4, 2014

Sprinkle a couple of tablespoons full of ordinary Table Salt on your fire every time you burn and you will have far less Creosote buildup.

Doc

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