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Wood stove inserts are not fireplaces, stop treating them like one
I pulled 3 inserts this month in Pittsburgh where the homeowner was burning full size logs with the door cracked open and the baffle plate was warped to hell. The manual on every unit Ive seen says to use shorter splits and keep the door shut after startup, but nobody reads it. How do you get customers to follow the burn instructions without sounding like a nag?
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the_robin1mo ago
...and honestly it kinda clicks more if you frame it as "youre not breaking my rules, youre breaking your stove." Like once people realize those warped baffles are gonna cost them way more than shorter logs, they tend to listen. I just tell em the firebox is basically a tuned engine, not a campfire pit, and that usually gets the door shut.
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