A burning issue: mastering a wood burner

摘要

In last autumn's issue of Forestry and Timber News I described how we bought and installed a modern wood-burning stove. To join in the theme of this issue, here I want to tell you how we've got on and, importantly, what we have learned after the firstwinter's burning, and after a pretty cold winter at that! Mastering the stove The first point is painfully obvious, but unless it's grasped success with a stove will be indifferent. Your aim is to get the stove itself hot, that is the basic steel box inside which your burn the wood. It is the heat of the stove that then radiates to warm the room. By contrast, in an open fire it is heat directly from the flames and embers that warms you. This elementary point only sank in after a few lightings and it altered the approach to using the stove. Let me explain.