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Unpopular opinion: the 'burn it hot once a week' advice is burning out liners, not creosote
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faithj101d ago
Oh! Here's the thing nobody talks about: it depends on your stove. If you have an old smoke dragon with no baffle, sure, hot burns help. But on a new EPA stove, that "hot once a week" advice is based on tech from the 70s. Those stoves already run the smoke back through the firebox, so creosote barely gets a chance to form if you're burning dry wood. All you're doing with a raging weekly fire is cooking the baffle and warping the tubes. My first stove lasted eight years because I followed that rule. My second one is going on twelve and I never do hot burns, I just check my wood and my chimney. The real fix is dry wood and not choking the air down all night.
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