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Originally Posted by SailinAway
I'm not yet comfortable leaving the woodstove burning all night. I will reread last year's thread on maintaining a fire. It contained a lot of good information that we don't need to repeat here.
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IDK if the suggestion to put a "round" of
unseasoned Hemlock is mentioned in that thread. If you can fit a large one in one half-hour before bedtime and shut all air intakes, it'll burn for eight warm hours. That bedtime "fire bed" should have plenty of glowing-red coals on which to rest the Hemlock.
(Hemlock is otherwise a poor choice of wood for burning in a woodstove).
Every home should have smoke alarms and fire extinguishers. Keep an extinguisher in the bedroom--NOT in the kitchen or next to the woodstove. (You don't want to pick up an overheated fire extinguisher!)
