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Question about my wood stove, a chimney sweep in Concord talked me out of the fancy fix
I was all set to buy a new stove because mine smoked up the living room every cold night, and the sweep who came out quoted me $180 just to look at it. He poked around for 20 minutes and pointed at my 4 foot stack of split wood, saying the stuff I'd been burning for two winters was too green and the real issue was my wood, not my stove. Now I'm letting next year's pile sit a full 12 months under a tarp before it touches the firebox, and the smoke issue is about 90 percent gone. Turns out he was right about a $0 fix beating a $1,200 one. How long do you all season your splits before burning, and does the type of wood make a real difference for you?
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