Wood Stove Tips
Anyone who has heated their home with fire will have picked up some wood stove tips and tricks: the little things that make life easier. How to make sure your fire lights first time, how to to get your firewood in without making a mess, or how to get used to wood heat after living in a thermostatically controlled box!
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Cold Start
To light a fire you need heat. A cold stove will suck up a lot of the initial heat of a fire, and can put it out. My answer: Get a BBQ charcoal chimney ...
Homemade Hot Water Tank Stove
I have had good success building near "Air Tight" wood stoves from old hot water heater tanks. This is the second year for my stove and it is fairly east ...
Hydronic barrel stove
I need to build or buy a hydronic kit for heating water in my barrel stove
Top-lit fires are best...
When lighting a fire in a stove you can either put the small pieces in the bottom and keep putting larger pieces on top, or you can put the heavy logs ...
Easy Firestarters
When getting the stove going, we all know that you start with some crumbled up newspaper, and some small kindling wood.
Sometimes, when I tryed to light ...
Homemade wood stove from a gas cylinder
'Found your site from the forums, very nice it is too!
I made my own woodstove from a gas cylinder and wondered if you'd thought of including a set of ...
Starting your fire for the first time, or again
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When it's time to split the firewood, I sometimes find a short branch or knot that is heavy (the wood is verry dry), I usualy throw it away with the ...
Splitting Firewood Smaller for a cleaner and hotter fire
Sometimes circumstances conspire to cause problems getting your fire lit or hot enough to burn cleanly. What ever the reason a good step to try and remedy ...
Easy Wood Stove Lighting - Sawdust and Oil Firelighters
To make sawdust and oil firelighters you will need a 5 gal. plastic or steel pail, sawdust and used motor oil.
You can get sawdust from lumberyards ...
Wood Burning for over 30 years
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I light my fires with USED MOTOR OIL and a ball of crumpled newspaper..
I never saw the point of paying for the fire starter blocks or messing with ...
Using Drier Lint As Tinder
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Lint from your dryer is great to start a cold start fire in the wood stove - it burns hotter and longer than newspaper or cardboard and I can use bigger ...
Fire Safety - 26 years of burning wood
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Hello,my name is Bernie,I have had experience burning wood primarily. It is the best not the cleanest but not the worst. I have never had a close call ...
Be kind to your glass
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Don't use firelighters - they can cause a 'milkiness' to appear on the glass. Instead light your stove the old-fashioned way, just using newspaper and ...
Uses For Firewood Ashes
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If you use stoves regularly you will quickly build up a lot of firewood ashes. Here are a few ideas for how you can use them:
As a general garden ...
Building Your Own Stove
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Hi,
Here are some written instructions. Not so hot but will get you going. Feel free to ask any questions that are not answered here or need clarity.
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