Bushmans
Smoke Dragon Herder
Interesting story. I got on the subject of wood burning today at work with a guy and he proceeded to tell me about his burning habits of which I became increasingly alarmed. I then asked him how often he cleaned his chimney and he tells me only once before each heating season. Then proudly he tells me that his 8" flue pipe is choked so full of creosote that it is only about 4" pipe at the end of the season.
I tell him he is gonna burn his damn house down, well his modular house, which he removed the appliance which was built for his type of home and put in a full size wood burner not suitable for his home.
He then tells me no it won't burn down because when he pulls in the driveway at night and notices the black gooey tar dripping from his chimney cap he knows its time for a burn off. Of course I ask him what that entails and he says stuffing my firebox full of newspaper and lighting it until I can hear the woof, woof train sound and then I know that it is burning off the creosote in a"controlled" chimney fire. When I'm done the gooey stuff is all hardened and crumbles in the breeze like those little black snake fireworks you used to light as a kid.
I told him he was effin crazy and was gonna burn the darn thing down. His cleaning "brush" is a coil spring off a car tied to a rope that he lowers down the stainless flue pipe and clangs it on the sides.
I was just dumbfounded. The crazy thing is he thinks he is right in what he is doing. The flue even goes up through his ceiling but because he has insulated double wall stainless he thinks nothing can happen.
So can y'all please say a prayer for this guys family, they at least need some protection against Mr. Crazy for Creosote!
This is all true. I did not elaborate one bit. Almost word for word, even the snake thing!
Wood burning should come with a mandatory class and chimney maintenance videos!
I tell him he is gonna burn his damn house down, well his modular house, which he removed the appliance which was built for his type of home and put in a full size wood burner not suitable for his home.
He then tells me no it won't burn down because when he pulls in the driveway at night and notices the black gooey tar dripping from his chimney cap he knows its time for a burn off. Of course I ask him what that entails and he says stuffing my firebox full of newspaper and lighting it until I can hear the woof, woof train sound and then I know that it is burning off the creosote in a"controlled" chimney fire. When I'm done the gooey stuff is all hardened and crumbles in the breeze like those little black snake fireworks you used to light as a kid.
I told him he was effin crazy and was gonna burn the darn thing down. His cleaning "brush" is a coil spring off a car tied to a rope that he lowers down the stainless flue pipe and clangs it on the sides.
I was just dumbfounded. The crazy thing is he thinks he is right in what he is doing. The flue even goes up through his ceiling but because he has insulated double wall stainless he thinks nothing can happen.
So can y'all please say a prayer for this guys family, they at least need some protection against Mr. Crazy for Creosote!
This is all true. I did not elaborate one bit. Almost word for word, even the snake thing!
Wood burning should come with a mandatory class and chimney maintenance videos!