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Which Wood Can I Burn in a Woodburniner?
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.
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).
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.
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.
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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