Plywood, particle board, or chipboard. Manufactured wood products release toxic fumes and carcinogens when burned. Fire accelerants or fire starters.
Never use accelerants, such as kerosene, gasoline, or grill starter fluid to help get your fire started. The accelerants or fire starters can cause flare ups or heat your fire to extremely high temperatures that are unsafe for your fireplace and chimney.
Any type of household plastic, whether its bubble wrap or a plastic cup, should not be burned in a fireplace.
Plastics release toxic chemicals, including hydrochloric acid, sulfur dioxide, dioxins, and heavy metals, that are dangerous for your health and bad for the environment. Some of the fillers can get carried up into heat transfer areas and form clinkers.
In industry, the filler is called "ash" as it doesnt burn and turns into ash. There are some fillers that could screw up a catalytic combustor. Some of the big fillers are clay and titanium dioxide but there are a lot of other things in small quantities.
Egg cartosn are usually made with the dregs of the papermaking process that cant be recycled for much else. There will be plenty of fillers and other junk mixing in with the combustables. Probably the biggest issue is that paper and other junk has a lot of surface area and burns quickly, throw enough of it in a stove and the flames can carry out into the chimney and possibly ignite any creosote casuing a chimney fire.
In some cases the ashes can carry up the stack and land somewhere either as ash or as an ember. Air emissions are also an issue, some folks confuse burning paper with trash. Just a little bit of PVC plastic can crank out a lot of dioxins.
I have seen reports that a single one family burn barrel used normally can put out more dioxin that the output of a biomass power boiler. Unfortunately the fine ash caused by fillers can cause submicron particulate PM 2. James02 Feeling the Heat. Aug 18, N.
There are people here that make fire starters with the paper based egg cartons, not the plastic Sprinter Minister of Fire. Jul 1, 2, SW Washington. James02 said:. Nov 13, 7. The best thing to burn in your stove is good, dry wood. Many other types of materials have more of a tendency to leave creosote buildup. If you need a good recommendation for a firestarter, I swear by cedar firestarters. I bought them online once just to try out last year and I haven't used anything different since then.
Some of the big fillers are clay and titanium dioxide but there are a lot of other things FanMan said:. Reminds me of some years back when renovating my old cabin, I burned a bunch of cheap old paneling in an outdoor firepit.
Smelled nasty, and the ash left behind was a bunch of almost glasslike chips that had a "tinkling" sound when pushed around. As mentioned above, a common homemade firestarter is to pack dryer lint into a paper egg carton and add melted wax. Oct 28, 61 SE TN. I've been using pressed paper egg cartons for years. Franklin, box, pot belly, open field stone fireplace and now the Jotul I figure if my eggs come in the carton, it probably isn't too badly polluted. All time favorite fire starter is fat pine.
Jan 7, 1, Northern ON. Nov 29, Puget Sound. Solarsails said:. I always use my junk mail, old newspapers, any cardboard, etc to soak up all of my leftover bacon grease, or as absorbent materials for deep fried fish, fries, chicken, etc It lasts longer if I turn the blower to low or off and crank the flue damper the whole way shut or just barely a crack. The sides, top and 30' double walled chimney glow bright cherry red all the way to the top and flame forcefully roars at least another 30', completely engulfing the cap.
I can hear water banging to steam because the circulator can't carry it away fast enough! Never had a problem with flying ash or anything like that. Whew does that stuff ever burn hot, its like rocket fuel! That "cat" thing must have been a real cheapy because it disintegrated a long time ago and eventually fell out so I threw it away Pieces of burned paper may also float out of your chimney and pose a fire hazard to the roof or nearby surroundings.
While you should generally not burn paper, it is acceptable to use a small amount of tightly rolled, plain black-and-white newspaper as kindling.
Make sure to place it between small bits of wood and avoid any paper with colors or gloss. To keep your fireplace and chimney safe and functioning properly, you should avoid putting trash and paper especially colored and glossy paper into your fireplace. These materials contain chemicals that are toxic when burned.
Stick to the old-fashioned way when starting your stove in the morning — tradition is good. You may have some bubble-wrap left over from Christmas, a plastic cup or two laying around for a party, and feel the temptation to use these to start your stove.
Surely just a relatively small amount of household plastics can do no harm? Burning household plastic releases toxic chemicals such as hydrochloric acid, sulphur dioxide, heavy metals and dioxins which are extremely dangerous to your health and the environment. Under no circumstances should you burn such material! In a similar fashion to chipboard and plywood, cardboard is treated with an array of chemicals and resins. Even though it burns relatively well it should be avoided at all costs when looking to fuel your stove.
The release of potentially toxic chemicals will not only impact the outside environment, as pollutants escape up the flue, but can also endanger those living in your home. As a rule of thumb, if any material has undergone any treatment with chemicals and resins it should never be used as fuel. The advice not to use driftwood for your stove may surprise many people because surely this is just a waste product?
However, the likelihood is that not only will the driftwood have an element of moisture at its core but might also contain a level of salt. When burned, salt particles are extremely corrosive and can cause damage to your stove, fireplace and flue. The wood may also have been exposed to an array of different chemicals in the water which would add to the dangers.
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