Wood Burners Are What You Are Looking For in Cold Days

Are you attempting to live an eco-pleasant existence? If you're looking for a green heating means which will hold you snug during the winter months without damaging the surroundings, then wood burners are just the one you're seeking.

Nowadays, wood stoves offer a large variety of styles and designs to suit any home style, from a Victorian house to a steel loft condo. Painted black, brushed steel or even red, with stovepipe to match, wood stoves with generous glass doors let you admire the dancing flames with your family members during the cold winter season. Traditional freestanding wood burning stove are generally used for more practical purposes, namely, for heating and even cooking. However, today stove not only become a heating appliance, but also a decoration, a fashion. Due to new designs, wood burning stove will look attractive and still remain perfectly functional. While traditional fireplaces generally work as a piece of decor.

Wood stoves can be installed in any room of your house, however most often they are placed in living or dining rooms.

Compared with chimineas, fire pits or fire bowls, log burning stoves are the safest, produces the most heat output from wood burned and will produce the least amount of smoke.

There are three primary advantages of using a log burner in the tent. The flue coming out the top, he flue coming part way up the tipi, and cutting a hole in the canvas, inserting a flushing and having the flue come out of the canvas. Of couse, you can also choose to use the fire bowl in your tent. As most individuals may knows that, selecting fire bowls is a great option to the open fire and allows you to have the tent fully carpeted inside. The Fire bowl will allow you to still maintain a 360 degree view of the fire which is essential for large gathering and enjoying the dance of the flames is vital to the enjoyment of the tent.

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Various usages of wood ashes

Whether you have a wood stove, an open fireplace or even a pellet stove; you will have to regularly remove the ash. One of the big complaints home owners have about heating with wood is the mess that can be generated - bark and dirt brought in on the fire wood or ash from clearing up. Is this also your complaint for your wood stove?

Modern stoves are usually designed with ingenious moving grates and trays to make ash clearing easier and some simple tools can help keep the place tidy. Do you know that even the wood ash? It also can make a huge difference. Today, I will introduce some main usages of wood ashes.

Fertilizer. If you have a garden, you can take your wood ashes and spread them on the garden before you till up your garden. Ash contains potash (potassium carbonate), phosphate, iron, manganese, boron, copper and zinc and can be quite beneficial as a natural fertilizer... sometimes. Ash of multi fuel stoves increases the PH or alkalinity of soil, so use sparingly. Ashes have a special element in them, lye. Some soils need added lye for better harvests. Lye is good for crops like potatoes. Healthy potatoes need lye in the soil.

Fire helper. Left over charcoal (the black chunks, not the grey/white ash) can be reused for your next fire building. Moreover, you also can use it in the summer barbecue.

Pest deterrent. Sprinkle the ash around the border of garden beds to repel snails and slugs. This will need to be applied after rain.

Ice. Wood ash can be used as an anti/de-icing agent - a little more environmentally friendly than salt or other chemicals used these days

Cleaning. Dip a damp rag into ash and use to clean silverware, brass and glass. Ash added to a scourer can also give your scouring a bit more oomph.

Know of any other uses for ashes of log burning stoves? Please share your ideas below. In addition, you can read these wonderful posts about stoves:

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Catalytic Wood Stoves And Non Catalytic Wood Stoves

This is my first time to hear of the catalytic wood stove. What is the catalytic wood stove? Versus the catalytic wood stove, there is the non catalytic wood stove. So what is the so-called catalytic wood stove and non catalytic wood stove, two major types of technology that are being used in the new Certified EPA standards stoves.

As we all know that, nowadays, more and more people are returning to the wood stove to heat their home or cooking the food. With all the advanced technology and science available on wood burning stoves, wood heat has become ever more affordable source of heat.

For the two types of stoves, catalytic wood stove and non catalytic wood stove, the two major methods used are the secondary combustion method and the catalytic converter method. Each technology has advantages and disadvantages. The basic premise is that smoke is nothing but unburned gases and particles, which these gases and particles have been proven to be harmful to human kind’s health.

A type of wood stove in which the smoky exhaust is passed through a coated ceramic honeycomb inside the stove where the smoke gases and particles ignite and burn. Catalytic stoves were introduced to comply with a 1988 EPA regulation that set mandatory smoke emission limits for wood stoves of 4.1 grams of smoke per hour for catalytic stoves and 7.5 grams per hour for non-catalytic stoves. Catalytic stoves are able to produce long, even heat output.

While non catalytic stoves, we can call it for short, non-cats can't match the even heat output of catalytic stoves, their owners can enjoy watching the beautiful fire they create. The baffle and some other internal parts of a non-catalytic stove will need replacement from time to time as they deteriorate with the high heat of efficient combustion.

Therefore, the goal of the clean air act is to remove these gases and particles from wood burning stoves and other solid fuel burning appliances before they are spewed into the atmosphere in the form of smoke. The concept of the new high tech log burning stoves incorporate is to burn these pollutants before they leave the stove.

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Wood stoves, heat your whole house

I remember that, as a kid, it is usually the first thing to warm around a fireplace early in the morning. Now I am living in the south, the winter's not so harsh and the summers are a bit longer. However, when I saw a picture of modern wood stove in of those awful plane magazines, it kind of brought me back to my childhood. Not so much because of the style of the stove but seeing the flames it seemed so inviting.

Sitting around the wood stove, listening to the cracking of wood, watching the dancing flames, it is such a cool, romantic thing.

Now, it is quite cold in my office. How I want a wood stove at present. But I am just imagining. Our company would not buy a stove in our office. It will take too much money on cast iron stoves if every room is installed one. Other colleagues say that, warm atmosphere in an office will make a person lazy. They mean that a terrible, bad atmosphere can prompt, motivate a person work more efficiently.

And later, I know that, log burning stoves give off a good amount of heat and depending on where you put them in your home; they can possible heat your whole house. If you put a wood burning stove by a cold air return and have the fan on your furnace going it should circulate the hot air throughout your house.

Thinking about purchasing a wood stove that is right for your dwelling? Some of the best and best-known hearth manufacturers make quality wood burning stoves. There are many factors to consider and quite enough products to pick from. Finding an excellent clean burning wood stove that meets your needs may require numerous digging.

If you want to know more about wood burning stoves or the reasons why wood burning stoves are cost effective and environmentally friendly in these recessionary times then read: Ways Of Improving Old Wood Stoves’ Efficiency