not much heat from woodburner

deano72_2

recently had a double double wood burner installed..for some rason i thought it would of kicked out alot more heat as from memory when have been to others they seem to really kick out the heat!! ideas?
ps im just burning off cuts mainly hard wood/oak

W.W.J.D

Need more detail

We have a 5kw and its chucking loads of heat out?

Is it well stacked how long does it take to heat up? We boil a kettle on ours could you boil a kettle?

JMC369

It takes time and practise to learn about each individual stove and how to get it performing its best. Familiarising yourself with your stove, its instruction manual and how each air intake works is worth reading up on. I had a Dovre and the instruction booklet gave good explanations. If its multi fuel you will need to ensure its adjusted it to wood mode. There's a lot of info out there on the inet on getting the desireable burn rate, building up a hot ash bed etc.

nickj_2

i would have thought that hard wood would burn much slower thus giving off less heat than soft wood

deano72_2

its 10 kw..can feed it from both ends as its the type with door either end.yep it gets bloody hot,but dnt seem to heat up the room,we even open the door & played around with the vents,must admit the we dont get much of flames of the wood tho & usualy put about 10 blocks (size 8"x4"approx) atleast a night not sure what more info can give

JMC369

^^ no. I researched a lot about burning wood when I got my burner and it's a science in itself. I'm sure there are members of this forum who know far more than me but there are plenty of sites dedicated to this very subject.

How long have you had the burner? I failed miserably to get a decent fire out of mine for about 3 months but as I learnt how to get the flames just 'so', when and how to adjust the flame etc it was brilliant and I became much more efficient in terms of wood use.

deano72_2

JMC369 wrote: »

It takes time and practise to learn about each individual stove and how to get it performing its best. Familiarising yourself with your stove, its instruction manual and how each air intake works is worth reading up on. I had a Dovre and the instruction booklet gave good explanations. If its multi fuel you will need to ensure its adjusted it to wood mode. There's a lot of info out there on the inet on getting the desireable burn rate, building up a hot ash bed etc.

tnx,have read the manual & tried the vents according..one problem could be its not getting a very good ash base as the wood dont create much ash.we only have to empty the pan about once a week!

123joe

JMC369 wrote: »

^^ no. I researched a lot about burning wood when I got my burner and it's a science in itself. I'm sure there are members of this forum who know far more than me but there are plenty of sites dedicated to this very subject.

How long have you had the burner? I failed miserably to get a decent fire out of mine for about 3 months but as I learnt how to get the flames just 'so', when and how to adjust the flame etc it was brilliant and I became much more efficient in terms of wood use.

i have the same problem as the OP, i can't find any dedicated sites online, can you please suggest some, thanks

rottertron

Might be worth getting a flue pipe thermometer to give you an idea on how hot the flue is getting and how hard youre working the stove.

deano72_2

just an update...i made sure it was stacked from the begining as apose to chucking on a couple of bits at a time...its made hell of a diffrence heatwise & funny enough dont burn 1/2 as much wood...now im roasting....think iv picked up a habbit tho,keep getting up playing with the control vents,,its worse than keep turning the tv over!!

muckybutt

Being the size it is have you also got the correct airflow from the outside ? without the correct airflow combustion will be restricted.