Wood stove opinions, please (buying a house, buying, inspection)

[boonelsewhere]

has any one use Creosote Remover when heating with wood stove.

[wordsmith680]

I take it you don't mean the spring loaded type I drop down the chimney?....................

[MadJack]

First have your chimney checked to see if it can handle a woodstove. Also make sure that it is high enough to get the draft needed to run a new stove correctly. Higher is always better as long as you can clean it from inside!

Buy a new/modern stove for heating. Less 'blow-back' on windy days & less ash due to a more efficient burn. Higher chimney helps here too.
I like a glass front and prefer a side load. Allows me to monitor the burn-rate without opening it and seeing the flame/coals makes me feel warmer when it's -20 outside too.
If you buy a glass front, GET THE AIR WASH! Keeps the glass clean(er).
Be sure whatever you buy has a BIG ash drawer/clean-out.

Then buy or cut enough wood for two heating seasons . . .every year! If you get hurt, break a leg/arm, have a heart attack, whatever, you'll be ready for winter and always have DRY wood!
You can always sell some after a couple years to 'rotate old stock' and the $$$ comes in handy mid-winter too!

[Northern Maine Land Man]

Back around 1950 a college professor came to a Maine sporting camp. In his cabin was a Franklin stove sitting on four upright logs. It made the stove easier to tend. The mechanical engineering professor taught thermodynamics and after two days at camp he went to the owner all excited. He told the old guide that the stove was at exactly the right height for absolute thermodynamic efficiency and convection of warmed air. He was highly complementary of the old guide. The guide thanked him very much and was glad the professor liked it. The professor went off, very pleased with it all.

The guide turned to me and said, "Who'd a thunk? That's the length I cut all my firewood and it made the stove pipes come out right."

[msina]

Hmmmmmmmm,... this thread has me thinking........... what is the going rate per cord for hardwood. Cut, split and delivered.......... in the Lincoln area?

[Northern Maine Land Man]

$220 to $280 depending on size and dryness.

[msina]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

$220 to $280 depending on size and dryness.

Thanks! Can't wait to be there.

[boonelsewhere]

it is spray bottle kind, you spray on the logs or spray in the stove before start fire. the product made by Rutland in Virmont.

i had chimney fire recently, i had the chimney sweep/check but still afraid to use them, i though by use Creosote Remover , it may make me feel easier to use the stove.

Originally Posted by wordsmith680

I take it you don't mean the spring loaded type I drop down the chimney?....................

[boonelsewhere]

oh, my stove is Jotul F 600, have it installed in 2007, it is Not catylitic stove.

[wordsmith680]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

$220 to $280 depending on size and dryness.

Wow...I could afford my new saw!(if i sold a cord or two)