Tips When Buying Wood Burning Stoves

More and more people are becoming turning to cast iron wood burning stoves to heat their homes. Are you the one among them? Fuels, for example, firewood has been growing in popularity as a carbon neutral heating solutions.

However, what do you need to know when looking for a new wood stove? Here're some tips.

Generally speaking, there are two major factors that will influence your options of stove. One is the type of stove, while the style or appearance of stoves is a less important. You can choose from the wood burning stove, solid stoves, multifuel stoves, gas stoves, electric stoves. Wood as a fuel is green, sustainable, renewable, and if burnt cleanly can be 100% carbon neutral, as it gives off as much carbon dioxide when burnt as it absorbed during the lifetime of the tree.

The other major factor, heat output. The heat output of a stove is measured in Kilowatt Hours (kwh). There are small wood stoves, medium wood burning stoves and large wood stoves. Pick a stove with too low an output and it will be hard to heat your room. Too high an output and your room may get uncomfortably hot. So what should you do? All these can be changed depend upon whether your house is well insulated or not. In addition, you should also consider the age of the house.

What do you want your stove to do? Heating a room or simly supplying hot water have always been options, however more and more human being see wood burning stoves as a lifestyle option as well. So be clear in your mind that your finally usage you wannt your stove to do.

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7kw Contemporary Wood Burning Stove - Amesti N350

7KW Contemporary Wood Burning Stove - Amesti N350

 

This Amesti N350 7kw contemporary wood burning stove is perfect for medium sized rooms (Range 30 - 100 square metres). It is built in best quality and CE approved (HETAS approval in process).

Features:

• Small log storage underneath
• Front loading, hinged door with security glass panel
• 3-stage air inflow and unique Amesti clean burn system
• Air injector for easy lighting, self cleaning glass
• Removable handle for safety
• Logs up to 30cm
• Country of origin: Chile
• HETAS approval applied for in June 2012- awaiting certificate.
• DEFRA tested for smokeless zone exemption in June 2012- passed test- awaiting certification.
• CE certificate EN13240
• Free shipping to UK mainland
• This stove should be installed by a HETAS accredited installer.

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Reduce Wood Smoke of Stoves

I believe that, most indivuals using wood stoves must meet such a situation, see a lot of smoke coming from a chimney. This's air pollution and inefficiency.

Wood smoke results from incomplete burning of wood, so this leads to the low efficiency. When released outdoors, or accidently indoors, it's an air pollution. Breathing air containing wood smoke is not healthy. Wood smoke contains a mixture of gases and fine particles that can cause burning eyes, runny nose, and bronchitis. Fine particles can aggravate existing diseases such as asthma, emphysema, pneumonia and bronchitis, heart disease, espcecially in people of young and old ages.

In addition, long term exposure to wood smoke may lead to: Chronic obstructive lung disease. Chronic bronchitis. Increased risk of cancer, and genetic mutations (based on animal studies).

So, what could you do to reduce wood stoves smoke coming form the chimney? Here are some ways. Burning clean, dry, well-seasoned hardwoods such as oak or maple. And replace older stoves with newer, certified cleaner wood burning stoves.

Furthermore, learn the correct way to use your stove, such as properly installed, correctly used EPA certified wood stove releases significantly less pollution into the environment. As EPA certified wood stoves burn wood more completely; therefore, they emit 60% to 80% less pollution.

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How To Clean The Rust Of a Cast Iron Stove?

Stoves from Astove fulfill the basic need for heat. Rust, however, is not only an eyesore that ruins the stove's appearance, it's also capable of deteriorating the stove to the point where it is no longer usable. As known to all, being made of iron means that any object made from it is more prone to rust, especially when the cast iron stove comes into contact with moisture. Therefore, it becomes quite important that removing rust from cast iron, which is a farily basic chore that can be accomplished in a relatively short period of time. as well. How to clean the rust of a cast iron stove?

1. First and foremost, use soapy water to wash cast iron body, pots and pans. As, the stove must be clean in order to see exactly where it's rusted. And let the item dry.

2. Secondly, scrape the rust off. Use a wire brush or rust remover to scrape off the rust down to the bare metal. For small areas of rust on the stove, use a wire brush, steel wool or a scrubbing pad. For larger rust stains on the stove or for stubborn stains, use a commercial rust remover. Even though it is extremely effective in cleaning away rust, but also toxic because of the strong acids. So be careful. Don't forget to buy some heat-proof paint, rubber gloves and dust mask if you don't have any. (Certainly, wire brush and rust remover is also good for removing the surface rust that forms on other cast iron furniture.)

3. Clean away any remnants of the rust remover with some old rags.

4. Then, prime and repaint. Apply a primer and rust-resistant paint to repair the furniture.

5. Finally, apply wax. The wax protects your cast iron cookware from moisture.

6. Apply heat-proof paint in order to prevent future corrosion.

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A wood burning stove is one of the best ways to heat the home without using non-renewable fossil fuels. However, when choosing a right wood stove for your home, make sure it is an EPA-certified model. Because wood burning stoves approved by the EPA burn cleaner as well as more efficiently.

Moreover, when you begin using your wood burner, never burn any waste or used oil in your chimney as this may clog the chimney. Always make sure the wood you are using is fresh and make sure the wood has been properly seasoned before burning it in your wood burning stoves.

In addition, there are other tips for you during your operation.

1. Open the draft for the small stove from the bottom. If the chimney flue is still in place, open it all the way.

2. Crumble the newspaper into loose balls and place on a 1-inch bed of ashes. Then place a handful of kindling on top of the crumbled paper. Next, light the newspaper with a match or fireplace lighter.

3. Monitor the burning of the kindling, add more until there is a small bed of burning coals.

4. Add mid-sized pieces of wood on top of the burning kindling.

finally, a piece of advice for you, if you have a fire going, make sure it is burning well and not smoldering. If there is excessive smoke, put out the fire as it is dangerous for the health if it escapes inset stoves. Furthermore, please make sure the flue is open before starting fire. NEVER remove hot ashes or partially burned loges. Please leave the ashes in the fireplace even if you are sure they are cold. It's easier to build a fire with a bed of ashes.

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Are you familiar with the fireplace?

Why does stove fire go out?

Have you ever found that the fire in your wood stove go out?
There are numerous reasons why stove fire goes out. Every situation is various and different variables cause this to happen. There are mainly four very common reasons I list here. The most common reason is there is too much ash built up and the ashes weren’t shaken out enough. As this restricts the air flow that is necessary for the fire to burn. Another very common reason is there wasn’t enough air supplied to the fire of your woodburning stoves. These problems can be solved by clearing the ash and opening the air intake locations to allow more air flow.

Well, another cause of this occurrence is there wasn’t enough fuel to maintain a continuous burn time. Usually, the average burn time of the wood ranges from 8- 24 hours. Of course, a lot of variables factors can affect the burn time of cast iron stoves, such as exterior weather conditions, room temperature desired, draft of the chimney, as well as many other conditions. Results may vary due to the various conditions.

The last reason that could cause this problem is related to the chimney of small wood burning stove. There might not be enough draft in the chimney to pull the air through the fire to sustain a continuous burn, leaving unburned fuel in the fire box. The chimney could also have too much draft that it is burning the fuel rapidly, decreasing the burn time. It is usually some other variable that is causing this to happen.

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“What type of wood should I be burning and how will it affect the performance of my wood stove?” yesterday, my aunt asked me. Until now, I’ve worked in wood stove industry as the quality inspector for more than two years. If you have the same problem, fortunately, you got the answer today.

Your wood burner will perform quite well and last longer if you burn cordwood that is cut, split and dried for 1 year before use. Keep in mind, never burn driftwood, painted wood, wood with nails in it or pressed particleboard. As these woods contain chemicals that damage your stove, chimney, as well as harm the environment and be bad for your health.

Maybe someone don't know that the wood they choose will play a essential role in efficiency of wood burning stoves. They only think that the stove's quality and construction would affect stove's performance. In fact, there are several factors that impact your stove’s performance.

First, most crucial factors are the type of wood you burn, as well as whether or not the wood is properly dried, or seasoned. Each species of wood has its own characters, but all wood has roughly the same energy content by weight. The different species vary only in density. So what kind of wood should we burn to get high efficiency of our common small stove?

Generally speaking, we recommend using hard wood, such as oak or maple, but in many areas, these trees are not plentiful enough to burn. Ultimately, the most important thing is to use wood that is cut and split to the right size, and that the wood is properly dried. Don’t forget.

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