Is my wood stove safe if the burning wood touches the glass?
My mom told me to put wood in the stove and i packed the stove full of wood so it would burn all night because it gets to a negative degrees here. is the stove safe even if the wood is touching the glass while its burning. or is it a big fire danger? could the heat cause the glass to shader or crack?
The glass in any good wood stove is specially made to be very tough and heat resistant. It doesn’t matter if the wood is touching it while it is burning – the whole thing gets up to 1,000 degrees F. or hotter without any problems. If it shattered while you were asleep and hot coals went everywhere it would burn the house down most likely, so the glass is made very tough so that doesn’t happen.
Make sure you don’t over-pack the stove, not because of the glass, but because the stove isn’t as efficient if it just smolders all night. Get a nice good base of hot coals so the stove is really hot before bed…then fill it up with wood, then dial back the amount of air getting in until you have a steady flame with a fair bit of blue in it. That’s when you know you are really on the money in terms of efficiency, at least on my stove.
The glass should be ok but it will cause the glass to get blackened which can be cleaned after it cools off.
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The glass in any good wood stove is specially made to be very tough and heat resistant. It doesn’t matter if the wood is touching it while it is burning – the whole thing gets up to 1,000 degrees F. or hotter without any problems. If it shattered while you were asleep and hot coals went everywhere it would burn the house down most likely, so the glass is made very tough so that doesn’t happen.
Make sure you don’t over-pack the stove, not because of the glass, but because the stove isn’t as efficient if it just smolders all night. Get a nice good base of hot coals so the stove is really hot before bed…then fill it up with wood, then dial back the amount of air getting in until you have a steady flame with a fair bit of blue in it. That’s when you know you are really on the money in terms of efficiency, at least on my stove.
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