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Old 11-24-10, 10:27 AM   #16
Ryland
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Pine is really hard to burn, it takes longer then other woods to dry out and has less energy in it so it burns cooler, combine this with the high amount of pitch in it and you end up with a coating of tar in your chimney! last year we cleaned a chimney that took less then two months to fill with tar and inch and a half thick layer of thick black crust, the guy was really lucky that it never started on fire, instead it blocked his chimney up so much that his house filled full of smoke.
If you burn any pine at all clean and inspect your chimney once a year! if you burn nice dry hard wood like ben has and you burn it hot you might never need to clean your chimney, I inspect my parents chimney every year or so and they heat only with wood and their chimney I think is going on 10 years without a cleaning, a bit of ash and soot at the bottom but that's it.
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