I check my chimney once a year in the fall before heating season. I have an air tight box stove in the basement which I use sporadically throughout the winter. I usually get about a 2 gallons of soot out of that flue. I have a Hearthstone soapstone in the living room which I burn 24/7 all winter long. The furnace rarely ever comes on except to heat the water. I just completed my 6th full season with the Hearthstone. I have not cleaned the flue for that stove in all those 6 years. I am simply amazed at how clean it burns. I have an outside double flue chimney which runs from the basement to 3 ft above the peak of my 2 story house. Not the ideal chimney situation! I am serious about burning only totally seasoned hardwood and I am a firm believer in bringing the stove up to at least 400 degrees before "dampering" it down and I like to run it at 450 - 500 deg. as much as possible. My favorite wood is hop hornbeam (ironwood) but I also burn red and white oak, maple, ash and occasionally hickory or yellow birch. I am fortunate in that I have a little over 50 acres of woodlot. I rarely ever have to cut a live tree. For me, burning wood is a no-brainer; I save enough in fuel each year to treat the wife and I to a nice 2 week vacation in the carribean each winter. Unfortunately, I burn as much fuel (LP gas) during that 2 weeks as I do the rest of the winter. LOL
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