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Soaring energy prices have investigated
a revival of the wood stove to supplement
the oil or gas furnace and eut the cost of
heating homes during the Canadian
winter.
More than just a rustic revival, the wood
stove can be energy efficient and can
drastically cut the cost of heating your
home for the winter.
The Scandinavians are credited with the
most important recent change in the design
of wood. stoves - airtight construction that
makes it possible to adjust the air intake
and control the rate of combustion.
Allan and Nancy Gibson, concession 12,
Ashfield, are going into the second winter
with their airtight Lakewood stepstove that
sits in the dining room off their pantry.
• Last winter the stove cut their. cost for
fuel for the winter by a "good half" and
reduced their electricity bill because the
furnace was not coming on as often,
Allan guesses they used about 10 cord of
wood last winter 'whereas the old wood
cook stove would have burned twice as
much. A stick burning when the family
went to bed at night would still be burning
when they got up in the morning.
The only problem the Gibsons have
found with their airtight wood stove is the
problem with creosote which is common to
all wood stoves.
Deposits of corrosive and inflammable
creosote in the stovepipe and chimney are
formed by a "tar fog" of volatile resins and
other chemicals given off by the burning
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All woods produce these tar -like vapors
when they burn. Normally the inflammable
gases are either burned in the stove or
driven off with the hot flue gases, but if the
fire is burning slowly and producing a lot of
smoke, and the chimney is cool, they will
condense inside it as a dark brown, acrid
liquid that dries to form a - hard, shiny,
inflammable deposit of creoSote. This is
what burns when a chimney catches fire.
Unfortunately, the well-built, efficient,
airtight stoves are the ones most likely to
produce creosote if they are not used
properly. •
To prevent creosote buildup an active
fire with a good bed of hot coals should be
maintained most of the time the stove is in
use.
If the draft is clbsed to check the fire, it
should be opened every couple of hours to
get the fire going briskly .again and to keep
the chimney warm. Banking the fire over-
night is not a good .idea. It would be better
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to let it go out and then start a new fire
again in the morning,
One of the quickest ways to generate
creosote Iscio close both valves when the
stove is burning a new stick of wood. The
first stage of burning is drying when the
moist* is driven off and.the vales should
be open during this stage.
Green wood also requires more draft and,
creates more creosote -than ,dry wood,
J. D, Durnin, R, 2 Lucknow, is a local
dealer for Lakewood stoves. He has been
selling them from his farm since the
beginning of September. The stoves are
made in Bobcaygen by the same company
that made Gibson's stove and Durnin can
offer a choice among • the five designs,
stepstove, cottager, space mate, double
door and workhorse.
• Lakewood is working on a design of stove
to work as a furnace and they are having
their models tested by the Canadian Safety
Association so they will be CSA approved.
• Many of the wood stove and wood
furnace companies which fell by the
wayside when oil and gas furnaces first
became the modern method of centrally
heating homes are now re -opening for
operation and are again doing business.
Home. Hardware and the Co-op sell
airtight stoves,
The comeback of the wood stove would
appear to be more than a rustic fantasy.
The airtight stove is an efficient method of
heating a house and can be cheaper than
oil or gas.
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