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I have a small wood insert in an old stone fireplace. I typically brush it out once a year but I plan on using it quite a bit more frequently now that my kids are getting older. I'm burning bone-dry, standing dead western larch and Douglas-fir. How frequently do you guys brush?

I have a small wood insert in an old stone fireplace. I typically brush it out once a year but I plan on using it quite a bit more frequently now that my kids are getting older. I'm burning bone-dry, standing dead western larch and Douglas-fir. How frequently do you guys brush?

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Not as often as the third Reich in their hey day.

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Every 4-6 cords. Once a year. Whichever.

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twice a year, before we use it and when we are finished with the chmney, and if you use it all winter then you need to clean it every 30 days.

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not hiring a chimney sweep

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I like to larp in blackface. Plus, no chimbleysweeps in the boog.

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I'm going on 12 years in my present house. I have no intention of ever cleaning the chimney. The previous house I lived in, the chimneys went uncleaned for about 30 years. Just for curiousity, I stuck a mirror in the bottom of the furnace chimney to take a look up it. The opening was about three inches wide. The rest was soot. I expect the chimney of the house I'm in now will look the same in 10 or 15 more years, but I'll probably be dead by then, so I don't give a fuck.

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Zero concern about a chimney fire?

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You would be surprised by how many people wait for the fire department to chain the burning creosote from their flu.

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I had one once, cool to watch, terrifying to hear. Incinerated the flue cap. If you use dry wood and have a good flue temp you won’t get build up.

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I just use those celibate logs. One at the start of season and one halfway through.

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Those what now? There's no celibacy allowed in front of my fireplace.

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Fucking spellchecker I meant creosote logs.

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And here I thought this was a thinly veiled innuendo about OP's masturbation-based question.

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Every year, the guys that deliver my wood do it for a couple bucks as part of the service.

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If you burn only the larch you’d probably never have to clean the chimney. The fir, or any conifer, is what leaves most of the soot. We use pine for fatlighter for starting the fire. We never burn the pine.

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I feel like a hobbit just typed that sentence. I live in texas. If we get cold we grab a blankey

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