Operate Your Wood Burner for Maximum Efficiency
Whether you’re a first year wood burner or you’ve simply upgraded your old wood stove, it takes time to get to know new Festbrennstoffkessel. With some patience and attention to detail, you can learn to operate your new wood burner at maximum efficiency in very little time. Doing so will save you money on the cost of fuel (wood), plus reduce environmentally harmful pollution.
One of the most important differences between today’s modern Holzheizkessel and old-fashioned wood stoves is their much, much greater efficiency. Homes stay warmer, longer with less wood when old wood burners are replaced with antike Kamine. To take full advantage of today’s modern wood burners, it’s important to understand how to burn efficiently.
Top at the list of factors that affect how efficiently Kaminofen operate is the wood used in them. Burning only seasoned, dry wood is the first step to burning efficiently.
Green, unseasoned wood can contain up the 50 percent of its weight in moisture, and that moisture equates to tremendous inefficiency. Before green wood can heat your home, all of that moisture must be burned off. Burning green wood also contributes directly to the buildup of creosote in your stovepipe and chimney. It isn’t just wasteful to burn greenwood, it can be dangerous.
In addition to the condition of the wood you burn in your wood burner, the type of fires you burn also affects efficiency. Small, hot fires are the most efficient type. Smoldering, over-damped fires may equate to less work, but you will pay the high price of less efficiency by burning this way.