Putting in a stove

[blackrose]

Well, go there we must I'm afraid.

 

Unless the vent tolerances are reasonable and you can close them down, then there's no way to control the stove when the flue draw gets going in windy conditions.

 

In that case the stove is at best useless and at worst downright dangerous, so I don't understand why people would fit poor quality stoves on boats? It's a false economy.

Edited January 29, 2022 by blackrose

[bizzard]

Salt is good for calming down or putting out a roaring away stove and is cheap enough.

[MtB]

24 minutes ago, bizzard said:

Salt is good for calming down or putting out a roaring away stove and is cheap enough.

 

Does it not work in the same way as pan-ash, which is free and usually to hand in much larger volumes? Restricting the flow of air through the coals thereby stifling combustion? 

[Alan de Enfield]

6 hours ago, Puffling said:

Oh, don't even go there 😖

 

It's an age-related problem.

[bizzard]

6 hours ago, MtB said:

 

Does it not work in the same way as pan-ash, which is free and usually to hand in much larger volumes? Restricting the flow of air through the coals thereby stifling combustion? 

Not as dirty and dusty, and there might not be any ash to hand if it had just been emptied outside or overboard, and salt is usually always on hand to season yer din dins. Free if you care to carry out a night raid a roadside rock salt bin in the winter.