You've Forgotten Outside Wood Burners: 10 Reasons Why You No Longer Need It

What You Need to Know About Outdoor Wood Burners

Outdoor wood burners are an affordable way to heat homes and businesses. They also reduce the dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels and aid in a sustainable energy strategy.

A well-seasoned wood is vital for efficient burning. Green or unseasoned wood may have a higher moisture content, which can create creosote and slow down performance.

Efficient

Outdoor wood burners have been around for many years. They are an energy efficient and eco-friendly method to heat your home. However, the design of OWBs that encourages an unsteady, cooler fire that causes less combustion and a higher amount of smoke, creosote, as well as particulates. These unburned fuels could lead to health problems as well as fire hazards, and can also harm the environment.

Additionally the visible smoke plume OWBs produce can cause neighbors to complain. This may result in DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation), taking enforcement action. This kind of problem can have a negative impact on the value of your property and could cause your OWB being shut down.

Crown Royal Stoves offers a line of EPA Certified outdoor wood furnaces called the Pristine Gasification Series that utilizes technology to boost the efficiency of combustion to ensure a smokeless, clean burn. This is achieved by using a negative-pressure air system that pulls fresh, dry heated, filtered air from the bottom and pushes it up the chimney at a much faster rate than traditional outdoor wood boilers. This is accomplished through the unique design of a multi-pass, water-filled heat exchanger made from 409 Titanium Enhanced Stainless Steel.

When properly utilized properly, the Pristine Series OWB achieves an efficiency of 99% for a smoke-free and cleaner fire. It consumes less wood and produces a lot less emission than traditional OWBs. To maximize your OWB's performance, it is important to only burn dry, clean, seasoned wood. The process of preparing your wood for 6 months or more prior to burning is recommended. This helps ensure a better and more efficient burn.

You can increase the efficiency of your wood-burning stove by executing a weekly "dry burn". This technique eliminates creosote accumulation, makes your boiler running efficiently and increases its lifespan. By affixing a creosote-removing stick to your stove every time you fill it up, you can drastically reduce the amount of creosote that you need to use.  wood burning stoves on sale  is available from Wisconsin Wood Furnace.

Clean

The soot particles left behind after burning wood can make a stove look very dirty. They are extremely difficult to remove so if you notice any spots of buildup on the glass of your stove, you must clean them immediately. If not, the soot will begin to harden and be even more difficult to get off. Using the right cleaners for the job is essential however, you must also ensure that you're not damaging the surface of the glass with anything that might scratch it. This could leave a weak spot that could break the glass if it's exposed to extreme temperatures.

Before you begin cleaning your wood stove, it is important to ensure that it is unlit and completely cool. Make sure that you cover the area surrounding it with newspaper. This will prevent any ash spillage that can cause stains and marks on surfaces.

Depending on the quality of the wood that you use, it can take up to one year for your stove to be properly well-seasoned. Seasoned wood will not only burn more efficiently, but will create less creosote. This is the substance that gets accumulated on your chimney, which reduces effectiveness and creating an hazard for fire. If you're using unseasoned wood or are just making a fresh fire in your outdoor wood burner the best thing you can do is to open the lower back door and scoop out the ashes into a non-combustible container each week.

A sediment flush is recommended on your boiler every four years. This is a simple flush that takes five seconds from the bottom drain valve on your boiler. This will remove any sediment that has built in the system and will ensure that your boiler runs efficiently.

After you've completed the sediment flush, it's now time to clean the outside of your outdoor wood burner. Before you begin, it's essential to cover the floor area surrounding the stove with newspaper. It is also helpful to wear protective eyewear and gloves. You should also have a metal ash container, a scraping tool and shovel. To safeguard the refractory, you need to lay down a cloth to protect it from damage as you scrape away coal and ash deposits.

Easy to operate

Outdoor wood boilers (also called outdoor furnaces or outdoor wood hydronic heating systems, or outdoor wood heaters) are often misunderstood, despite their popularity. They were among the "it" trends of the 1990s, along with mullet hairstyles. They're not the same as the well-known EPA wood stoves, which are built to burn low temperatures continuously. They are able to produce a higher rate of burning and generate more smoke. Some local governments restrict or prohibit their use.

OWBs work best for homes with a high level of insulation. The smoldering, visible smoke is also a source of complaint with neighbors, and has led to many OWBs being shut-down or sued in the past. For OWBs dry wood that has less moisture content is required to work effectively. Using green or unseasoned wood decreases efficiency, causes creosote accumulation and can reduce the lifespan of the burner. A moisture gauge will allow you determine the time it takes for wood to dry.

In contrast, dual-stage wood gasification boilers (OWGB) employ three steps of process which makes use of the available energy from the wood and results in less smoke. These types of furnaces are more efficient than traditional OWBs and can be used with a greater variety of fuel. Wood gasification boilers require dry well-seasoned and seasoned firewood. The majority of wood will season within one year. Oak and other hardy trees could take as long as two years to mature. They are less water-based and have a denser mass. This allows them to retain heat for longer, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing pollution. The EPA's "Burn Wise" website and Cornell Cooperative Extension can help homeowners understand how to burn wood efficiently in order to reduce pollution to the air.

Low Maintenance

Modern outdoor wood stoves have been designed to be eco-friendly. Modern outdoor wood furnaces do not produce excessive CO2 or heat. They also burn more efficiently than indoor wood stoves. They also use less wood to produce the same amount heat as traditional stoves.

Outdoor wood burners also require less maintenance than indoor wood burners and are more accommodating in regards to the moisture content of the wood. Outdoor wood burners are suitable for wood that has been properly "cured" or dried or. It can take a year or more for some kinds of wood. Make use of a moisture meter prior to loading to determine the amount of water contained in your wood.

During operation it is important to check the system regularly for creosote accumulation. Creosote is a byproduct from combustion that can build up in the flue and chimney when it is not cleaned on a regular basis. It can be eliminated by pouring a creosote-removing product into the fire. Regularly cleaning the chimney and flue will remove dangerous creosote accumulations and improve efficiency.

To achieve 99% combustion efficiency, Crown Royal Stoves designed an innovative air flow technology called Negative Pressure Gasification. Our EPA certified Pristine Series outdoor wood furnaces utilize this technology to pull air from the bottom, forcing all the gasses into an insulated water surrounded secondary combustion chamber, which is easy-clean turbulators for a smokeless & pollution-free burn.