DR. P. Proteus
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There used to be carpet in the room with the stove and my kid was real small so I had a fence around the stove. One evening we were all headed out, I guess in a rush, I just had banked up the stove. When I came back I saw a burn hole the size of silver dollar in the rug about ten feet from the stove. I suppose some hot coals got stuck to my boot and got flicked onto the carpet when I stepped over the fence.
When I was kid we had the big fireplace going. There was a big ornate mantel above it and it was painted, one time the flames just roared out and set fire to the painted mantel. There was a lot of coats of paint on that mantel. The fire was put out quick enough and we finished stripping the rest of the paint and found the mantel made of solid tiger oak which was pretty cool. Then my mom made us strip the rest of the house and my sister ended up setting fire to the third floor with a propane torch. All the woodwork in the house was made of tiger oak.
In the early season I find I come home and want to get a fire going real quick but don't warm the chimney enough and really make a mess.
One time I had sucked up some ash with my shop vac and noticed it did make any dust so I tried to clean the chimney with it. I was doing GREAT for about 2 minutes then looked behind me to see the house was filled with black black BLACK soot.
Oh yeah and then one time I burnt my pecker on the damn thing, it went " sizzle" like slice of bacon. I had just gotten out of the shower, had a towel wrapped around my waist and was getting dressed by the stove. I went to hang up my boots on the hooks behind it and the towel fell off.
When I was kid we had the big fireplace going. There was a big ornate mantel above it and it was painted, one time the flames just roared out and set fire to the painted mantel. There was a lot of coats of paint on that mantel. The fire was put out quick enough and we finished stripping the rest of the paint and found the mantel made of solid tiger oak which was pretty cool. Then my mom made us strip the rest of the house and my sister ended up setting fire to the third floor with a propane torch. All the woodwork in the house was made of tiger oak.
In the early season I find I come home and want to get a fire going real quick but don't warm the chimney enough and really make a mess.
One time I had sucked up some ash with my shop vac and noticed it did make any dust so I tried to clean the chimney with it. I was doing GREAT for about 2 minutes then looked behind me to see the house was filled with black black BLACK soot.
Oh yeah and then one time I burnt my pecker on the damn thing, it went " sizzle" like slice of bacon. I had just gotten out of the shower, had a towel wrapped around my waist and was getting dressed by the stove. I went to hang up my boots on the hooks behind it and the towel fell off.