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How often do you guys clean your chimney?
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30 Jan ’14 - 10:39 pm
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thats not bad at all for the size of your house

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31 Jan ’14 - 9:23 am
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We clean ours once a year. We had an older, non-air tight stove installed for a few months out here and I think that led to whatever soot we had in the chimney -- which was a small amount. Now with the new air-tight stove we routinely get the stove up to 400 to 500 degrees. I am not really worried about any creosote.

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31 Jan ’14 - 1:34 pm
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I always thought the non air tight always produced less because you couldn't control the air and it burned hotter creating less creosote

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Could be. I heard that the ability to dampen down an air-tight stove at night better let to less creosote vs. non-air tight using really wet logs or something.

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31 Jan ’14 - 1:42 pm
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Hmm, maybe I'm doing it wrong, I always leave our wood stove door cracked

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If you have an air tight stove then...

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it burns better believe it or not, we have very small fires, if I loaded up the woodstove, it would heat us right out of the house

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31 Jan ’14 - 2:05 pm
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Do you have an air damper and a flue damper? My stove came with an air damper. Once it is running hot I can close the air damper and it restricts how hot it burns. Makes it very easy to keep it a certain temp in the house.

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