Time For A Clean Start

[Tim524]

 Well, it's that time of year to start prepping for Winter October is when we usually start to burn the wood stove and start warming the house on the cooler evenings. For 23 years, every October I have called the Chimney Sweep and he cleans not only our stove but a couple neighbors and a few family members as well Cheap insurance and piece of mind against a chimney fire He starts on top and removes and cleans the cap and the stainless steel pipe inside the Chimney.

Right on time as usual


I don't do ladders anymore, he is way up there


Nice view of my neighbor from up there


After the cleanse from the top, he moves to the clean-out and gets busy




This is what causes chimney fires.....CREOSOTE !!!


This is the tool that he attaches to his drill, no metal, more like weed eater string


Now to clean the wood stove, Mongo was supervising 


All clean, now I get to clean the glass


Cozy warm now, Mongo happy


If you have a fireplace you should have it cleaned on a regular basis, stay safe out there

[KogaHead]

Tim,

That warms your entire house?

How does it do that?

[Tim524]

Tim,

That warms your entire house?

How does it do that?

It puts out a lot of heat. It has a fan on the back that blows air across the top of the stove and the ceiling fans move air as well. Not as quick as forced air furnace but way cheaper and keeps me chasing firewood

[jrodda]

Haven't heard of it being more exonomical, that's pretty sick.

[vdisney]

Haven't heard of it being more exonomical, that's pretty sick.

I used wood as a sole source of heat for close to 40 years.  If you're in an area without natural gas (I never had natural gas until now), heating with wood is far cheaper than heating with propane.

[Latimeria]

Man, you put your wood stove to good use.  Our fireplace only gets the "Fire Log" treatment since my wife hates the smell of camp fire... which is the total opposite of me.

[Tim524]

Man, you put your wood stove to good use.  Our fireplace only gets the "Fire Log" treatment since my wife hates the smell of camp fire... which is the total opposite of me.

I usually burn about 2 cords of wood from October to March or April, it gets a workout   Camp fire smell should be bottled and sold as cologne