How to economically light the stove with a minimum consumption of firewood?

Hello Kulibins Kulibenshi and today will tell you how flooded the stove with the greatest possible economy of firewood.

Background to this. Recently stayed at the neighbor's, well, a little bit in the evening sat and talked, drank tea, etc. Here in Ukraine is already nights cool enough, there are even sub-zero temperatures and while we were sitting, he melts the stove to warm house.

I noticed that the whole evening as we sat, he vkinul it two buckets of firewood, and as it turned out later, the night before he is to throw two more buckets. At the same time, buddy matyukatsya and told which roads today firewood.

For comparison, I have the same kindling the stove takes only one bucket of firewood and I'm missing them almost daily. In conversation it turned out that I really drown mega sparingly, because to use the stove, too, should be able to.

Stoves in our houses typical combustion chamber, underneath the camera to remove ashes and blowing with the door and the top of the chimney damper.

According to the results it was found out that a neighbor wrongly lays the wood, but rather it at all does not fit. The flap had always default open and the door to the lower chamber, where it goes to ashes, too, is always open. As a result of the combustion of firewood in a draft chamber is formed, which is cleaved invent heat and burn quickly without appreciable effect.

That is such a large number of wood, as in the photo, I have enough for the whole night and in the morning the embers remain, the heat in the house. In the buddy firewood fly in just a few hours. If this sink, you can only work on some wood.

First neighbor's mistake is that he incorrectly places the wood. That is raspalivaet stove as an ordinary street fire. Since the beginning of putting the paper, then small chips, firewood on top of larger and below it ignites everything. That is, applying a lower burning.

For a more economical consumption and fast warm-up fuser, use the hearth burning, that is, the upper. Laid down more wood, smaller on top, and on the top of the chips to the paper.

The photo shows the hearth burning, which is significantly more efficient heat and flow of wood.

Then pay attention to the way of stacking firewood.

To lower the combustion hearth is necessary to choose the first laying method where wood is placed in parallel with each other.

If the wood a little damp, they will begin to give off a lot of smoke, and at the top of this does not occur at the bottom of kindling because they have time to dry.

And the last error - inability to work with valves. The upper valve is fully open and the lower door, too, creating literally a draft and now I understand why the neighbors see sparks from the chimney every winter.

Thrust into the furnace of course is necessary, otherwise the wood will be poorly lit and in the chimney will accumulate more soot layer, but here it is necessary observe a middle ground, that is to find a mode that the stove is not suffocating and at the same time to have enough oxygen to combustion.

At the initial stage raspalki until the oven is still cold, it is necessary to fully open the flap on the chimney and provide good air flow. In our case, we can not close the door of the furnace or blowing open the door of the lower chamber.

As the warmed oven, we begin to gradually reduce cravings by retracting flap and reduce fresh oxygen.

As a result, we have a neighbor pick up an optimum mode. Combustion chamber door closing completely and leaving a small crack on the bottom of the chamber. Valve also closes about 2/3 and the result is a weak combustion, but with a large heat release which does not take off the pipe and the time to heat the oven and the room.

Well, as it turned out just as a result of reduced consumption of wood is almost three times and learned how to lay them in the oven.

Kolyan, kickback to you)))

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