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Useful Tips For Lighting A Fire In Your Wood-Burning Stove

A wood-burning stove can be installed with your existing open fireplace to help improve the efficiency of burning firewood Perth cbd in your home. Wood burning stoves help produce more heat from each log of wood but understanding how to use your stove is the best way to get the most out of wood. Here are a few tips for using your wood-burning stove to get the most out of it.

 

Building a fire

You should build a fire in your stove so that it can help the fire to keep going as quickly as possible. To build a fire, you will need sheets of plain paper or an old newspaper and a number of small bits of seasoned kindling.

 

Before you start building a fire, you should clear out excess ashes from your stove. There should be around an inch of ash at the bed of your stove to insulate the fire and boost its efficiency. Crunch up your newspapers and place them on the bed of your wood-burning stove. Do not over-tighten the newspaper and do not pack them too tightly into your stove. Add small pieces of dry wood on top of your newspaper. Softwood kindling will do a great job. Your wood should be placed in a crisscross arrangement.

 

Warm the flue

You should ensure the flue above your firewood stove is not too cold to get the fire going quickly. If it is a cold day then you should leave the door of your stove open for a few minutes before lighting your fire. This will bring both the flue and the stove up to room temperature. Start the draft on the wood-burning stove by holding a source of heat below the flue outlet inside the stove.

 

As wood-burning stoves are usually enclosed and connected to the outside, they can be colder than the temperature of your home. Keeping the door open for a while will bring it closer to room temperature. Your fire might not stay alight if the flue is cold. Hot air rises and cold air falls and so a cold flue will provide a barrier to your wood-burning stove to prevent smoke and waste gases from leaving.

 

Holding a source of heat inside the stove will warm up the air inside and help to start the draft on the wood-burning stove where the air is pulled up your flue. If you notice smoke from the source of fire rising up into your flue then it is a sign that there is enough draft on the wood-burning stove to be able to light a fire successfully.

 

Lighting your fire

Before lighting your fire in your firewood Perth cbd stove, you should ensure that all controllable air vents on your stove are open. With the flue warm, you should be able to light a fire at different points across the bed of your newspaper to spread the fire to your kindling evenly and quickly. After lighting the fire, close the stove and keep the air vents open to enjoy your fire.

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