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[ultrarunner]

It pains me to say but this is why we have the regulations we do like blanket no burn days even with certified low emission cat wood stoves.

Too many otherwise successful people that lack in common sense...

 

[MossRoad]

It pains me to say but this is why we have the regulations we do like blanket no burn days even with certified low emission cat wood stoves.

Too many otherwise successful people that lack in common sense...

I recall many a time in our house when someone would start a fire in the fireplace and promptly fill the house with smoke due to not opening the damper. At least a couple times a year, if not more.

 

[ultrarunner]

My Dad had a hard time remembering if it was open or closed... until it was too late.

In the rentals I have made it so the dampers cannot be all the way closed for fireplaces and the air not fully choked off for the stoves...

 

[300UGUY]

My neighbor ( since passed ) use to burn his garbage in his wood stove. Including the plastic. Any mention of air pollution was forbidden. He did listen to my wife when she said it stinks....

 

[300UGUY]

It pains me to say but this is why we have the regulations we do like blanket no burn days even with certified low emission cat wood stoves.

Too many otherwise successful people that lack in common sense...

There are a lot of folks out there who either deny that pollution is a problem or simply don't care.

 

[theg]

Keeping the trail clear and clearing brush.

 

[s219]

I recall many a time in our house when someone would start a fire in the fireplace and promptly fill the house with smoke due to not opening the damper. At least a couple times a year, if not more.

The first fire we made in the fall of 2015, I opened up the fireplace doors, opened the outside air intake damper, and opened the chimney damper. But by "open" I mean I flipped all of them to the opposite direction of what they were, because I specifically remember "closing" all of them earlier in the spring.

I don't know what they heck happened, but apparently the chimney damper had actually been open (all summer long) and I really closed it. Couldn't get a fire going, smoked up the room, etc, until I physically stuck my head inside the fireplace to look up the chimney and realized the damper was in fact closed. Boy did I feel stupid. But at the age of 46 I learned that "opposite" is not necessarily the same as "open". Still don't know why that damper had been open all summer. Either I forgot to close it as I thought, or maybe my wife flipped it at some point and didn't tell me.

 

[Mikejeakins]

Happens to the best of us.

 

[MossRoad]

The funniest thing I remember about the damper is when it wasn't closed and a flying squirrel came down the chimney and ran out of the fireplace one summer. We had vaulted ceilings. It would run up the wall to the peak, jump off and glide across the living room, then do it again from the other side. Once it landed on my sister's head! HAhahhaahaa, man did she scream! It was a fast little bugger. We opened the doors and if finally ran outside.

 

[TomSeller]

The first fire we made in the fall of 2015, I opened up the fireplace doors, opened the outside air intake damper,.

Speaking of outside air intake dampers in fireplaces, I have that setup with glass doors in my new place and want to retrofit the fireplace with a modern insert and SS flue. The wood stove place in town said they don't make inserts with outside air (crawlspace air) intake. Google indicates they need to be custom fit which makes 100% sense. A link I did come across poo poo'd the advantages of outside air as combustion air. Any opinions?