Questions on Stove

highrisklowreturn

What happens if you burn the stove with all the firebricks out? Will this produce more heat?

Would it be ok to remove the grate completely, and ash pan, for burning solid fuel, to give a greater amount of space for more fuel to be burnt at a time?

teacake1

Hi,
Not a good idea to burn a stove with all the fire bricks out as the temperature of the outside casing of the stove will become 'red hot' and you will probably distort the casing.
Regards the second question. A fire needs air to burn efficiently hence your fire 'sits' on a grate for you to 'riddle' when necessary to deposit the ash into the ash pan. Therefore if you remove the ash pan and grate, your fire would burn inefficiently and I would be concerned that on opening the door to your grate your fire may spill out. Hope this helps. Best leave your stove as it is.

highrisklowreturn

With respect to the grate, isn't the removal of the grate and ash pan the done thing when making the stove into a woodburner from a multi fuel version?

Also, I have burnt wood in the stove but not consistently hit a good temperature, so I might consider for future at least removing the firebricks to the side so I can fit a bit more wood in (the opening is already painfully small) and let more heat out.

suki1964

Remove the grate if you are burning wood but don't remove the bricks. The bricks not only protect your stove they work as a kind of heat reserve letting out the heat long after the fire has died

My mum has a little opening on her stove - just have to cut the logs smaller and refuel more often. Still once you have a good fire going you shouldn't need to re fuel more then every hour

muckybutt

If you intend using a multifuel stove for woodburning only then personally I wouldnt remove the ash pan or grate, all you need to do is get a good bed of ash approx 1 -2 inches thich, dont riddle the fire just leave as is. This will act exactly the same as if you had removed everything from the inside.

Fire bricks should never be removed if fitted, they are there to protect the stove casting, remove them and it will either crack or distort the stove. Likewise a cracked / badly broken brick should always be replaced or repaired with fire cement.