[Homestead] MagicHeat
Gene GeRue
genegerue at ruralize.com
Tue Nov 20 18:41:06 EST 2007
On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:11 PM, Franklin W. Davis wrote:
> Hi Gene...before ya light your wood fire... ball up a bunch of
> newspaper and put it in your stove...and touch it off... it will
> preheat your flu so that the draft will be there when ya get your
> wood goin'...and ya won't smoke yerself out...;-) tip from an
> Ol'Mainer...;-) Franklin
Yeah, I know that, and have done it many times. I have gotten away
from paying for news so don't have near the handy paper that I did
years back. I get most of my news today from the Net.
A bigger issue is what happens when a stove or fireplace fire dies
down during the night, toward morning. As the fuel wanes down to
coals there is a time when you get a bigger load of smoke relative to
the heat. At that time, with a timer or a heat sensor, if a very
small fan kicked in then all the smoke and incompletely consumed
gases would harmlessly go up and out.
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