Saturday, December 14, 2024

Tag: Homesteading Cautionary Tales – Part 2

Homesteading Cautionary Tales – Part 2

by Mrs. Alaska, Survival Blog:

(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.)

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE WITH A CHIMNEY ISSUE

My husband and I also heat our remote, off-grid home with a woodstove. One cold February night we had to evacuate our cabin at 3 am because the chimney pipe had gotten so clogged with creosote that the smoke in the firebox was leaching out into our home rather than drawing upward to the outside.