Category: Wood

Stoves

Lighting a Wood Burner

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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 […]

Firewood

Best Wood to Burn in Your Stove

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Every wood is different in the way it burns and to fully enjoy the benefits of your wood stove, it is important to use the best wood for creating a long-lasting flame with good heat output. The Six Best Woods: 1. Ash (Fraxinus)- is thought to be the very best wood to burn and can even burn when green, although you get the best results when ash is dry, as is true with most any other wood. 2. Beech (Fagus)- is another good burner but not whilst green as it has a much higher moisture content. It is pale cream in colour with a pink or brown hue. 3. Hawthorn (Crataegus)- has a slow burn rate and good heat output. 4. Rowan (Sorbus)- is similar to hawthorn and also known […]

Wood

Many Advantages Of Feather Edge Cladding

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You have a number of options when searching for the perfect cladding profile for your shed. One of these options is feather edge cladding. However, it is often considered a low quality option for shed cladding and this reputation is entirely undeserved. This type of cladding profile is affordable and makes use of thin narrow panels. One of the most common misconceptions associated with this type of cladding profile is that the small section size and thin panels might lead to distortion and warping in the future. Feather boards are available in many different widths ranging from the typical 100 mm to more than 200 mm. The bigger feather edge boards have the advantage of being thicker which keeps the timber in place and reduces the risk of distortion and […]