Wet wood also does not produce as much heat from your home. Christmas trees. It can be tempting to cut up and burn your live Christmas tree in your wood-burning fireplace. In addition to not being properly seasoned, the evergreen wood of your Christmas tree contains high levels of resin. These resins burn quickly and can pop, causing a risk of a chimney fire. Painted or treated lumber.
Painted or treated lumber can contain toxic chemicals that are released when burned. Those chemicals are dangerous for you and your family, and can corrode your fireplace. Any type of paper with colored print. Hardwood scraps that are usable get saved, and the rest get cut down to burn. From time to time I go through the good scraps and purge some of them as well. Software - Aspire 2. Originally Posted by Andrew Nemeth.
Exactly why burning plywood is a bad idea. Regardless if you are cooking over it or not, plywood should not be burnt. If you can't use it, toss it. Much better for everyone in a dump than in the air. This is true for treated lumber as well, etc.
The argument that more "bad stuff" will get put in the air hauling it to the dump is flawed at best and complete non-sense at worst. The trucks will make the trash run regardless if the ply is in there, and they have a little thing called catalytic converters.
Join Date Oct Posts Originally Posted by Mr. You buy the scraps by the truck load. Not in my stove. Nov 19, 2, Poughkeepsie, NY. Well, to give you perspective on over fire, I blew out some fireplace doors when I tossed a rather small piece of plywood on a fire once. That's what prompted me to start looking at wood stoves I also learned from that. Not only is kiln dried lumber something to be careful of, but just the fact that it's pine is something to be careful of.
Plywood is something that should never go in a stove, same with many other things like cardboard with lots of glue, cereal boxes color in the cardboard old furniture, etc Those items have chemicals that can cause problems in the stove and chimney, and really foul up a CAT stove. I wouldn't pass on some 2x4's but I wouldn't burn them as a single source of heat. There is one exception If you have a masonry heater, I think you could burn 2x4's.
I don't own one, and don't have any experience Calling Marty A masonry heater can take extreme heats and is designed to burn even hotter than a wood stove. They burn wide open and fast to transfer lots of heat, but I still wouldn't burn plywood. I hope this helps. Feb 27, North Worc. CTY MA. Drifthopper said:. Click to expand Just how much plywood are you talking about having access to????
Harley Minister of Fire. Apr 11, Ashfield, MA. I'd definately stay away from the plywood. Some of the other scrap pieces Probably the best thing to do is use that stuff for kindling - split it up small, and use that to start the fire. Gooserider Mod Emeritus. Nov 20, 6, Northeastern MA near Lowell. Will echo the don't burn plywood sentiments - the chemicals in the glues are NOT healthy to breath, and may mess up the cat in a cat stove.
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