Do you monitor the temperature of your stove gases for overheating?

[BowlandStoves]

Overheating can cause significant problems with your wood-burning/multifuel stove aside from the fact it will cost you more in fuel. Do you monitor the temperature of your stove gases for overheating?

[Stubby]

8 hours ago, BowlandStoves said:

Overheating can cause significant problems with your wood-burning/multifuel stove aside from the fact it will cost you more in fuel. Do you monitor the temperature of your stove gases for overheating?

No . ?

[nepia]

Not while I am able to go and watch some paint dry ?

[Mick Dempsey]

No.

 

 

Edited September 26, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[Dan Maynard]

Just put one or two logs on at a time rather than stuff the stove full of wood. Not rocket science surely.

[difflock]

I keep the lights relatively low, which makes it easier to spot the dull cherry-red glow of the flue pipe, does this count?

[Jase hutch]

I do......

Flue thermometer. 

[neiln]

Yes I've a magnetic flue thermometer.  Ok you soon learn to just put a couple of logs on and to shut the air down, you also learn the woods that burn hotter and those that are not so hot, but you still get freak days when something about the weather makes the stove draw like a train or something else you don't understand makes the stove insane.  A thermometer for under a fiver let's me know.

[Rob_the_Sparky]

I've got a magnetic thermometer as above but this was my first log burner and it certainly has helped to learn to drive it.  I still find it useful occasionally but don't sit there monitoring it.  It was so cheap so I'm not sure why I wouldn't have it...