Burners Advice

anotheruser

People who burn things... logs, coal, heatlogs...

What do you have?
What do you currently use?
How do you make the fire?



My answers:

Open fire

Use a mix of smokeless coal, normal coal, seasoned wood mostly. Never tried heatogs.

I make the fire by mixing coal with paper and a little kindling. Then use firelighters (usually from Wilko) to get it going, and shove a log on later on.
I've looked at the upside down fire but it never seemed to work very well for me.

bmthmark

- Log burner
- Seasoned wood and kindling
- I make the fire by using kindling and firelighters (also from wilko) to get it going and then put a big log on it.

Its my first winter with the log burner and the above seems to work very well for me.

Rolandtheroadie

Firefox 8.5kw multi-fuel stove.
Used to go straight to the opencast and get coal for £95 a ton, but that's shut now.
We burn either normal coal, peat or logs.
Normally use kindlers and paper to light, occasionally firelighters from Aldi.

Oakdene

Multi fuel stove

Burn logs mainly, plus any off cuts of timber, dont use coal as I cant stand the dust.

Paper & kindling to light it.

Nick_C

We burn wood on an open fire at the weekends.

We use egg boxes and toilet roll inners as a base. Once we run out, I will make fire lighters by rolling newspaper into tubes that are then folded into triangles.

Sometimes add a small amount of wood kindling.

I bought a "flame thrower" type "weed wand" this year (powered by a gas cylinder). It's not brilliant for dealing with weeds, but its great for lighting the fire!

Grenage

Open fire with wood; I started using the upside-down method last week, and I'm never doing it any other way again.

I will probably install a wood burner next year, but we are undecided. Great for heating the house, but they never seem as atmospheric.

Ectophile

Stovax View 5 wood burner.

Mostly scrounged logs, with a few bought ones. Occasional heat logs when they are on special offer from the supermarket.

I start off making a pyramid of scrunched up newspaper and wood pellets (from a local joinery, which sells them dirt cheap). Then add softwood kindling, with a few small split logs leaning on the sides. Then just light the paper with a match. I find that the kindling and small logs light much better if they are leaning, not horizontal.

FreeBear

Multifuel cassette stove.

Bung a layer of wood shavings in, followed by a firelighter and then a small handful of kindling. Once the thing is lit, add a couple of small logs and as they burn down, shove larger ones on.

When it gets real cold and I'm in all day, a few shovel loads of coal will get added to the mix - The resulting ash will have to go in the bin rather than the compost heap, so I try to limit the amount of coal used.

Davesnave

Aarrow multi fuel, currently being changed to Woodwarm Phoenix.

Firelighter and scrap wood to start.

Seasoned logs of various parentage thereafter, plus a few other wooden products some people here will frown on, so I won't mention them.

I have no idea what the upside-down method is, but I don't need it, whatever it is.

Kiran

Upside down method is good if you have a big enough fire box, doesn't really work on small stoves. Basically you build a pyramid, the base is the large logs, working up in layers using smaller logs and on the top you have your kindling and fire lighter. The idea is that the fire burns down do you don't need to reload initially. It also helps if your wood isn't completely dry

Davesnave

I knew I didn't need it!

But thanks.