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25 minutes ago, roys said:

Just as a by the way, I got one of the particle meters for Christmas and I have had it on since then.

When the fire isn’t on it registers about 1.

When the wood burning stove is on it goes up to between 8 and 25.

The surprise was when my wife put on the tumble dryer today it went up to 250.

Make sure you open a window a least a little bit.

When you consider 100m3 typically pass through a wood stove per hour, if the place is too airtight, it can hurt the draft, I guess.

Here are some pictures.
I guess it can leak a little bit if the flames are too tall and/or there is smoke.

I can't smell anything if I keep the flames below the pipe and if I avoid smoke.
The pipe itself has just been cleaned and it's a 200mm diameter about 13m tall, so there should be widely enough draft.

1 hour ago, Vedhoggar said:

Not much comes from modern wood stoves burning well seasoned wood, in one test more particulate matter was coming from a toaster (451), frying (411), oven (30) than woodstove (5) when it was on and an incense stick burning registered 800 + (see Youtube: Gosforth Handyman, Woodburning Stoves for Beginners at 20 mins).

Amazing video, indeed.

1 hour ago, Paul in the woods said:

I'm curious about the particulate detector, did you get it just for the fire? Someone else posted they had a Geiger counter to check their firewood, it thought the occasional jab with a moisture meter was enough.

I'm using the Sndway SW-825, which is very reliable for example when I cook something or just to compare with official PM2.5 concentrations I find online.

I'm thinking of getting a detector that includes more stuff like TVOC and HCHO, but I have no idea if that would be relevant.

I read more and more articles about indoor pollution from wood burning stoves.

I have an open fireplace and when I put too much wood in it and build tall flames, I can clearly smell something and have to open the windows.

Surprisingly enough, my, otherwise very reactive, PM2.5 detector doesn't detect anything.

Am I looking for the wrong particulates?

If that's the case, which ones should I look for?

Thanks