What you burn decides how clean your chimney stays. Here is how to choose and store firewood.
Fresh-cut wood is full of water. When it burns, much of the fire goes to boiling that water away, so the fire is cooler and smokier, and cooler smoke leaves more creosote in the flue. Seasoned wood, dried for six months to a year or more, burns hotter, cleaner and with more heat for the same size log.
Hardwoods such as oak, hickory and maple burn long and hot. Softwoods burn fast and are good for kindling. Split wood dries faster, and stacking it off the ground with the ends open to the wind keeps it dry. An inexpensive moisture meter tells you when it is ready.
More heat, less smoke.
Cleaner flue.
Oak, hickory, maple.
Know when it is ready.
Six months or more.
Keep it dry.
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Dry hardwoods like oak and hickory burn long and clean.
You can, but it makes smoke and creosote and wastes heat.
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