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 […]

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3 Different Types of Roller Door Products

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Roller garage doors are one of the more popular design styles when it comes to garage doors. They offer a number of key advantages when it comes practicalities in comparison to the main alternative of up and over doors. Even so, many choose to go with a roller door simply because they prefer them from an aesthetic perspective, which is fair enough. Roller doors possess a kind of sleek appeal that is lacking from most alternatives, and they can be a great addition to a home. Their main downside is the lack of variation in design style, as they can all kind of look the same, with the main area of customisability being changes in colour. However, roller doors do offer a number of key advantages in the practicality department […]

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How do I put our a wood stove fire?

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A wood stove is an alternative way to heat a home. By burning wood or other fuel sources, wood stoves use the natural heat generated by the fire. This can save you money compared to a gas or electric heater. Should, for any reason, a wood burner fire start, here is how you would go about extinguishing it safely. Close the main wood burner door and ensure that it is sealed shut. Once the main door to the wood stove is closed, close all the dampeners on the stove.  As oxygen is the fuel a fire needs to continue to burn, you are starving the fire of its fuel by closing the stove door and dampeners.  Once the oxygen in the stove has been used, the fire will go out. […]

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Wood for a wood-burning stove

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The wood used in a wood-burning stove needs to be cut into log-sized pieces, dried out properly and stored safely and correctly to prevent fungus and rot from forming.  Dry wood burns far more efficiently than wet wood and produces more heat and fewer emissions.  It is easy to identify dry lumber as it will have splits in the grain and bark beginning to peel off. For outside the home, use compartmentalised storage for keeping dry wood. Only bring dried wood into the house and store it at a safe distance and in a safe place away from the fireplace. Make sure stored wood does not have contact with the ground.  Ideally, it should be covered with some waterproof roofing material. Still, it should be left open at the sides […]

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What are the Most Important Wood Stove Accessories?

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If you are considering purchasing a wood stove or are new to owning a wood stove, you may be wondering what accessories would you also want to get. Depending on the size of the room your wood stove is in, it is probably quite good at keeping the area nice and warm but one way to help circulate the heat more evenly throughout the room is a stove fan. These excellent contraptions generate electric current from the hot surface of the stove in order to turn the blade and distribute heat. Safety around your wood stove should be top priority, so you should definitely consider having stove gloves or gauntlet gloves that will protect your hands when interacting with your hot stove. Additionally, it is wise to have a fire […]