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MuddyGrimes t1_iwtnh0g wrote

Reply to comment by Dr_JackMeoff in What do you do with significant amounts of wood ash? by peachboot828

Its sounds high, but when you consider OP is using it as their primary heating, not just a Woodstove to supplement other heat it seems realistic to me.

Plus a 3000 sq ft 1850s house... probably burns a lot of wood.

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Dr_JackMeoff t1_iwudhiu wrote

Good point. It's hard to fathom when I look at my five gallon bucket haha. It's just so much ash.

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peachboot828 OP t1_iwwanrg wrote

I keep a “log book” (a record of how many logs we burn, hehe), and we’ve averaged 12-15 22” long logs per day on days when the temperature stays below 40. It’s a hungry house, heat-wise. But it still seems like a helluvah lot of ash/charcoal!

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Romanovs_Penguin t1_iwwdhc6 wrote

> we’ve averaged 12-15 22” long logs per day

How many cord to you burn in a year? How many cord do you have stacked?

What varieties of wood are you burning? If you're burning spruce or something like that ... that could be part of the problem.

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