Alcohol and fire are a dangerous combo.
Poor judgment and fire are a disaster waiting to happen.
I rented a room in my house one winter. She did Not use the wood stove.
A high end event space/restaurant had a fire in several of their guest room in December. One of the guests was worried about leaving the ashes in the fireplace before going to dinner, so she shoveled them into the wicker wastebasket.
Works good. Probably not great for indoors.
I heard about a guy sucking ashes out of his pellet stove with a shop vac. Tried to do it before waiting long enough. It was shooting sparks out of the exhaust. Whoopsie.
What I dislike with the hand bellows is the air flow in surges and nothing in-between. The generated heat is blown away and inconsistent. I prefer a slow but steady flow by the lungs. It's still interrupted but that gives more time for the small flame or embers to thaw a given area.
I'm throwing no stones, I promise. M and I rented and then bought our 5 acres with an ancient 35-foot mobile home on it and lived in that hovel happily for 9 years before we could afford to build a small house. It was a roof over our heads; cheap, and that was the only way we could have swung...
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