There is nothing quite like a cosy evening with the wood burner heating the room and watching the flames dance. But before you can get to this point, you need to light the wood burner. Here are the steps necessary to ensure your wood burner lights and stays alight.

Ensure that you open the air controls to allow a good air supply to establish the fire.

The wood you choose to light the burner is essential too. Choose small to medium seasoned logs that have low moisture content.

On top of these pieces of wood, place small wood logs. This creates a fuel stack within your stove.

Place an eco firelighter in the centre of the stack. This will help the larger logs ignite when the fire burns down.

On top of the logs, place some kindling, crisscrossing each layer.

Ignite the firelighter on top of the kindling and leave the stove door slightly open to allow plenty of air to supply the flames. Once the kindling has started burning, close the stove door and double-check that the air controls are still fully open.

Once the logs have started to burn, set the stove’s air controls to their normal running mode.