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Burning Wood in a Stove

Which Wood Can I Burn in a Woodburning?

Woodburning Stoves for the UK

Burn only dry, well seasoned wood, which should have been cut split and stacked for at least 12 months. Burning wet or unseasoned wood will create tar deposits in the stove and chimney and will not produce a satisfactory heat output.

Wood burns best on a bed of ash and it is therefore only necessary to remove surplus ash from the stove occasionally.

Wood burners

A woodburner, (or wood burning stove), has a flat bottom on which the wood burns on a bed of wood ash. Wood certainly burns slowly better in a woodburning stove than in a multifuel stove, so in this sense a woodburner is better suited to burning wood (as the name "woodburner " would suggest).

Slow burning on a Woodburner

However, even using a woodburner, wood is inefficient at burning slowly when compared to coal, so if you are going to be doing a lot of slow burning on your stove, then coal would be more efficient.

Which types of wood should I burn and how to best prepare it? More...

Woodburner Chimney Liner

It is always good practice to line a chimney when fitting any stove, whether it is a woodburning stove or a multifuel stove, (as their greater efficiency means colder flue gasses, leading to tar build up in the chimney), but if you are planning to do any amount of woodburning, lining and insulating the chimney is a must.

The Carbon Consequences of Burning Wood
Trees are mostly made of carbohydrate. To grow, trees take in carbon dioxide from the air and using the energy from the sun, turn it into carbohydrate. We chop the trees down, let them dry and then burn them for heat. As well as heat being produced the carbon dioxide that the trees originally trapped from the air is also released. Most firewood available in the uk comes from sustainable forestry - where a tree is felled another is planted. So the carbon that has been released is effectively trapped again by another tree. This means that overall carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere stay the same and so this does not contribute to the greenhouse effect.
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