How To Light A Fire:
First roll some sheets of newspapers into knots, place them in a pile in your wood burning stoves or multi fuel stoves belly. Place small twigs or kindlers over these as if one was building a tiny wigwam in the stove, firelighters can be optionally inserted into this pile. Set light to the pile. Once this has taken light and the woodwarms add more kindling sticks and one or two logs and/or bits of coal. Again, wait until this has taken to burn and add several more logs and/or more coal. It is important in this fire building stage that the fire is given air to ignite so space should be left between each log or coal and the bottom air vents on the stove left fully open. Once this second lot has been well lit place logs and/or coal on to suit your temperature requirements and adjust or close the bottom vents. When the fire is mature, half open the top vents to take advantage of the airwash. Make sure when you open these you don`t release smoke. With a fire in a wood burning stove you are aiming for GLOW not flame. Flame is for open fires which are dramatically less efficient. Generally for those of us with no fire lighting experience the skill of fire lighting and tending takes around one month to master.
Overnight Burning:
To achieve this close all the air flow dials and dampen the fire down by covering the flame and fuel with a coating of coal dust or dross. Overnight burning is a skill which has to be developed over time. Some people never manage to learn this skill, others pick it up within about a month. Personally, Tom and Sue at Country Kiln Stoves do not seek to achieve this on a regular basis since discovering 20 years ago that friends who succeed in overnight burning had fuel bills twice to one third larger than those who do not burn overnight. The depth of a wood stove is important in this technique so anything with a 16 inch depth or more should easily stay lit overnight.
Suitable Fuel for Country Kiln Stoves:
Our Country Kiln wood burning stoves and multi fuel stoves are suitable for use with all fuels, wood, peat, coal, and smokeless fuel. In smoke control areas our stoves are suitable use with smokeless fuel which will be the only fuel your local coal man can legally sell you. The legislation which governs these smoke control areas was brought into force prior to the Government understanding the carbon neutral properties of burning wood.
Tom, Sue and The Country Kiln Team 01560 483966
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