[Greenbuilding] Fireplace questions

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh Corwyn:

>  From a fuel standpoint you can burn anything.

     Is this actually true, in woodstoves?  If you burn pine and such, 
you get creosote build-up in the chimney, which brings an increased 
risk of chimney fires.  And the manufacturer will tell you not to 
burn such things as cardboard, because of the glues and resins.  Most 
woodstoves don't get hot enough to incinerate everything.

     I've often felt that one of the unsung virtues of masonry stoves 
is that they burn so hot that you can put just about anything in them 
and there's no creosote build-up, because the secondary products get 
combusted, too.

-Speireag.

-- 
The chill's in the air
Even so, we are gaining
on Old Man Winter.

-Speireag.