Treated wood and chimney

anon_ymous

Now I wouldn't do this given I don't fancy poisoning my neighbours, but people obviously do burn treated wood. Also imo, a wood stove is far more of a lifestyle choice if you didn't have it in the house to begin with and it isn't cheap compared to say a heat pump or even gas half the time 

Would burning treated wood also damage your chimney / flue lining? 

Looking online, it suggests it does but I've not seen anything concrete. It'd be good to know for definite especially if it does damage your chimney. I say because I'm in a couple of log burner groups and you regularly get people saying "It all burns. Forget what the government says", so it'd be nice to have some concrete evidence of it causing damage to their chimney / flue too

QrizB

It does depend on how it's been treated.

Lots of pallets, for example, have been heat treated to kill parasites but haven't had any preservative added. On the other hand "outdoor timber" like fence boards could have had all sorts of nasty stuff applied.

35har1old

anon_ymous said:

Now I wouldn't do this given I don't fancy poisoning my neighbours, but people obviously do burn treated wood. Also imo, a wood stove is far more of a lifestyle choice if you didn't have it in the house to begin with and it isn't cheap compared to say a heat pump or even gas half the time 

Would burning treated wood also damage your chimney / flue lining? 

Looking online, it suggests it does but I've not seen anything concrete. It'd be good to know for definite especially if it does damage your chimney. I say because I'm in a couple of log burner groups and you regularly get people saying "It all burns. Forget what the government says", so it'd be nice to have some concrete evidence of it causing damage to their chimney / flue too

Unseasoned logs can have the same effect