I had a very bad experience many years ago that quickly forced me to have my wood burning furnace cleaned professionally by an Heating plus A/C specialist.
I had rented my holiday lake condo to someone who, unfortunately, it turns out I didn’t screen as thoroughly as I should have before handing over the keys.
Because the lake condo was in a rural spot separate from routine garbage pick-up, anyone who stayed there had no real choice however to drive a short distance to a local landfill down the street to dump their garbage. My new tenant didn’t own a vehicle—something, again, I only l received much later. I guess he decided that the hassle of moving his garbage out of the house was too much in addition to he began incinerating it all in my quaint wood-burning furnace, he burned all of his garbage, including masses of plastic bottles in addition to wrappers, leftover food, paper in addition to thick corrugated cardboard, styrofoam, in addition to almost anything else he could find, with the exception of glass in addition to metal). I didn’t fully realize what had happened until many months later—long after he’d left the residence—when I began having concerns with the furnace; There was a smelly and weird residue on the inside of the glass in addition to the central air flow seemed poor! Smoke particularly spilled out into the dining room, leaving an unpleasant odor behind. The ducts in addition to overhead air vents seemed less efficient than they had been. I only l found out the truth after an Heating plus A/C professional diagnosed the unit and arranged a thorough cleaning.