Safe wood for terrarium?
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Comments (12)Lindseylu: I see your question hanging out for a while with no answer. Let me try. I think flues have "dampers" which limit the air hot air/gas flow out of the stove. This reduces the air entering the stove to burn the wood, and this limits the abiliity of the fire to fully burn the creosote producing components of the wood. People use dampers to slow the burning of the fire, making it burn longer and with less heat. I am a bit uncertain about the terminology here because I have an airtight stove, so I get the same effect by reducing the airflow to the fire using what I believe are called "registers." The more I limit the airflow into the stove, the longer and less hot the fire burns, but the more buildup I get in my flue. --Spruce...See MoreHow to safely remove screens from wood windows
Comments (7)Glad I stumbled upon this post. I have screens from my neighbor's windows. I never thought of using them for anything. I kept them in my shed because I figured someone out there would come up with a good idea! I have the windows in hopes to have DH make me a greenhouse! They've been stored under my son's clubhouse for two years now. Once the clubhouse comes down, guess what's getting built? :) And I can't wait for it. Now I know what I can do with the screens! Thank you! It's a shame to throw such nice wood away. Alicia...See MoreSafe Wood Treatment
Comments (10)Yes, far from perfect as I stated. As are the sciences of astrophysics, orthopedics, you name it. I see that paper has to do with exposure to radioactivity, which may be (probably is)quite a different mechanism from chemical toxins. I deal with remediation of scores of chemical contaminants in soil and groundwater. The whole system is based on years of animal toxicity studies - since you can't dose humans with toxins to see what happens (obviously). As you are no doubt aware, the doses have to be high enough to see an effect in a lab population of mice, etc., and the results are extrapolated downward - yes, linearly - to a level considered to be negligible. So the end result is a soil or drinking water level considered safe to an 'individual excess lifetime cancer rate' of 1 in 100,000 or 1 in 1 million. It's a significant assumption that the effect is linear down to tiny levels. Not being a toxicologist (I do the remediation, not the tox studies or the calculations), I don't know of a better way than this imperfect model. Hopefully some smart people will figure it out. The current system is based on literally thousands of animal tox studies on hundreds of chemicals, and won't be tossed out without something much better to replace it with, I'm sure. Listening to that video now, and although I generally have a open mind, I became a bit skeptical when the speaker said the Nobel prize winner who discovered that radiation causes mutations is 'the villain in the story.' Doesn't sound like objective science. But he has other stuff to say so we'll see....See Morehow to safely remove Wood Burning Stove??
Comments (2)Make sure you have a fireproof area all around and in front of it, check code. Depends on your installation but usually just a matter of disconnecting pipe at stove, empty the stove before you move it and have some muscles to move it out of the way while you redo. have done it before when our wood stove needed replacing. Make sure your chimney is sound, clean and up to code as well....See Morealaskanamazon
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