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Dr_JackMeoff t1_iwt98gu wrote

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

Maybe he meant 2gallons? 20 gallons seems impossible, no? That's A LOT of ash.

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MuddyGrimes t1_iwtnh0g wrote

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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