Jehannum
Puts the "pro" in procrastination
I do once a year. Never had issues yet, and the chimney sweep doesn't say anything about it.That's just people that burn wood.
Like newfoundland is 90% black spruce and fir trees, that's what people burn for firewood, and you save the rare chunk of birch to fire in the woodstove before you go to bed because it'll last the night. And here in NS, where there's way more hardwood in the forests, nobody burns softwood because it creosotes up your chimney quicker and you gotta clean it more often.
Discovered this at the old house where I cut down a big ass spruce tree, tried to give it away for firewood on a local facebook group and nobody wanted it. Some VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER even piped up how dangerous it was to burn softwood and how nobody should ever do it because it's apparently a massive fire risk, wtf.
Cedar is especially bad for creosoting up chimneys, just like softwood clean your chimney often if you burn a lot of it.
Everything we get here is softwood with the exception of scrub oak, which might as well be.