My husband seem paranoid around what we burn contained by our fireplace.? He is weird give or take a few burning any wood that...
He is weird give or take a few burning any wood that he thinks might hold a hint of creosote (sp?). He say leftover 2x4 bits and bobs from a building project are not suitable for burning. I say he's overreacting. He wishes to pick specific kinds of wood from the adjacent wooded area. Is he person a little too selective?
Answers: ALL woods enjoy some degree of creosote; it's a byproduct of combustion when the hot gasses cool on the stovepipe going through the chimney. Burning green wood straight from the forest is a great passageway to line your chimney next to creosote.
Some woods have more creosote than others, close to pine/fir and wet wood. Construction lumber odds and ends are both usually pine or fir and relatively green, so he's right about those man higher contained by creosote. Use those scraps for a bonfire outside instead.
Never burn treated lumber any. The preventative chemicals used to keep treated lumber ("wolmanized" is an example) from one eaten by termites is awfully toxic and should not be burned.
If your husband wants to avoid most creosote, he should buy a rick or two of hardwood resembling oak, ash, cherry, maple or apple wood from a reputable wood seller. Stack it up (bark side up) after splitting it, consequently wait 6 months to a year for it to dry in the past burning it.
You should always own a chimney inspected and cleaned by a chimneysweep every year. They're in the phone book. If you can't find one, you can purchase a stiff cable brush shaped like the inside of your chimney. It take two people to do this; one stands on the roof and lowers the brush down the chimney on a rope, the other pulls the brush down through the stovepipe and scrape off the creosote. Works really ably; we did it ourselves for years, and never had a chimney fire.
the merely wood you dont use is pine -that has the most creosote