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[Cob] wood stovejane at kirstinelund.dk jane at kirstinelund.dkThu Aug 26 08:35:56 CDT 2004
We have a finnish mass oven with a smoke / heating bench in our main house and it works quite well, exept when we forgot to cleane away the ashed so the air couldn't get to the burning chamber. This created a ridiculous amount of smoke. Mass ovens burn the smoke gasses as well as the fuel itself, and I guess that's the crucial thing. You should probably only use smoke benches with an oven that burns the soot away - anyway this is the only environmentally sensible thing to have. It might also be of importance that the oven is for firing quite large amount of fuel once a day or so, and letting the oven store the heat for the rest of the time. That, of course, means that the burning temperature will be quite high. Amanda wrote: > > I wanted a heated cob bench for the little room down at the barn. > Everybody > I knew in Tennessee screamed at me that it would be a disaster, that long > horizontal runs were an invitation to creosote buildup and chimney fires, > that nobody could do a heated bench right. There was a thread here at the > time. >
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