Posted by ScottyHOMEy on November 03, 2009 at 11:07:37 from (70.105.246.234):
In Reply to: Re: OT wood stove posted by John S-B on November 03, 2009 at 10:33:44:
Amen on the seasoned wood and keeping a clean flue.
Gotta disagree on the water.
I'm a firm believer in what one fella in the thread down below called a "friendly" chimney fire. I ran an airtight for years, and it was standard procedure to let it run full throttle for fiteen or 20 minutes anytime I opened it back up after a low burn (first thing in the morning or after getting fhome from work, for example). I'd check it once a month or at any sign of trouble (no such signs in all that time), and runa brush up and down for good measur spring and fall. Rarely could I get so much as a half-cup of fine scrapings out of it.
As far as the water to douse a chimeny fire? We had a town with a lot of lazy folks that knew that all the fire dept. did to extinguish a chimney fire was to take their chains up top and knock the burning creosote off the walls of the flue, basically a down-and-dirty chimney cleaning. So nobody cleaned their chimneys. They just waited for them to catch fire and called 911. Chief figured out what was goin' on, and started sendin' men onto the rooves with hoses instead of the chains. They didn't have to shatter but three or four ceramic liners before folks started keepin' their own chimneys clean.
It's not the fire in the stove that's the problem with a chimney fire. In fact it's a help, because it's consuming some of the oxygen that's feeding the blaze in the chimney. Dumpin' water onto the fire in a stove (as opposed to down the chimney) will kill the fire in the stove, but it isn't gonna touch a chimney fire with creosote burnin' in excess of 2000*. And unless it releases a LOT of CO2 when heated (and I DON'T know that that's the case), 2-1/2 pounds of bakin' soda ain't gonna do much either.
First step when you hear a freight train running in your house is to summon the pros or local volunteers. About the only prayer one might have is to have a CO2 type extinguisher at hand and run that in the door of the stove while waiting for help. Even at that, with the door open, it might not be enough. A good snortripper of a chimney fire will pull enough of a draft to make the curtains flap, and whatever that CO2 extinguisher can put out will be a drop in the bucket compared to the fresh air comin' in through the open door. Best bet is to close off the air as best you can and get help on the way.
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