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What You Need to Know About Outdoor Wood Burners

Outdoor wood burners are an affordable method of heating homes and businesses. They also help reduce dependence on non-renewable fossil fuels and contribute to a resilient energy strategy.

To ensure efficient burning, it is important to use seasoned wood. Green or unseasoned wood has higher moisture content and can cause creosote that can reduce performance.

Efficient

Outdoor wood burners have been in use for many years. They are a cost-effective and environmentally friendly way to heat your home. The typical design of OWBs favors an older, cooler fire which results in less efficient combustion and a higher amount of smoke and creosote. Unburned fuels can lead to health problems and fire hazards. They also degrade the environment.

Moreover, the visible smoke plume that OWBs generate can make neighbors complain. This could result in DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation) and taking enforcement actions. This type of public relations issue could cause serious damage to the value of your property and could even lead to your OWB being shut down.

Crown Royal Stoves has a line of outdoor wood furnaces that are EPA Certified. The Pristine Gasification Series makes use of technology to maximize combustion efficiency and provide an unburned, clean and smoke-free. This is done with a negative-pressure air system that pulls in fresh dry heated, filtered, and heated air from the bottom, and then pushes it up the chimney faster than traditional outdoor wood boilers. This is accomplished by the unique design of an encapsulated, multi-pass heat exchanger made from 409 Titanium Enhanced Stainless Steel.

If properly used, when properly used, the Pristine Series OWB has an efficiency of 99% for a cleaner and smoke-free fire. It uses less wood, and produces significantly fewer emission than traditional OWBs. To enhance the performance of your OWB, it is important to burn only dry, clean, and seasoned wood. Seasoning your wood for six months or a year prior to burning is recommended. It helps ensure a better energy efficient and efficient burn.

In addition to increasing the efficiency of your wood stove, you can also improve its efficiency by performing the "dry burn" every week. This method reduces creosote which improves boiler efficiency and extends the lifespan of your boiler. In addition by adding a creosote remover stick every time you load your stove, you will be able to drastically cut the amount of creosote you use. This product is available from Wisconsin Wood Furnace.

Clean

The soot particles left on the stove after burning wood may make a stove appear very dirty. These are very hard to remove, so if you see any spots of soot build-up on the glass of your stove, wash them as soon as you notice them. Otherwise the soot will harden and be even more difficult to get rid of. It is essential to use the right cleaners, but you should also be careful not to scratch the glass with anything that may scratch it. This could result in an area of weakness that could shatter glass when exposed high temperatures.

Before you begin cleaning your wood stove, you must ensure that it's not lit and completely cool. Also, be sure that the surrounding area is covered with newspaper. This will prevent the ash from spilling and staining surfaces.

It could take as long as one year for the seasoning of your stove to be complete, depending on the quality of the wood you select. The wood that is seasoned will not only burn better, but will create less creosote. This is the kind of material that builds up on your fireplace, decreasing its efficiency and posing a potential fire hazard. If you're using wood that's not seasoned or are just beginning an outdoor fire fireplace, you should open the lower backdoor, and scoop out ashes into a noncombustible 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 get rid of any sediment that has built up in the system, and will ensure that your boiler runs well.

After you have cleaned the exterior of your fireplace outside It is now time to clean it. Before starting, it's important to cover the floor area around the stove with newspaper. Wearing protective gloves and eyewear is also a good idea. Also, you should have a metal ash canister, a scraping tool and shovel. To protect the refractory you must lay down a cloth to protect it while you scrape away ash and coal deposits.

Easy to operate

Despite their popularity (they were among the 1990s' "it" trends, as were mullet haircuts) outdoor wood boilers, also known as outdoor furnaces or outdoor wood hydronic heaters are still often misunderstood.  corner wood burner  to the EPA's popular wood stoves, which are designed to burn at low, constant temperatures, these units use an increased fire rate and produce more smoke when they operate. Some local governments limit or prohibit their use.

OWBs are ideal to heat homes with a high insulation level. Smoke that is dense and smoldering may be a nuisance to neighbors, resulting in many OWBs to be shut down or even sued. In order for OWBs to operate properly they should be operated with dry wood with low moisture content. Green or unseasoned wood will reduce efficiency, causing creosote build-up, and shorten the lifespan of the burner. Drying wood can take time and the use of a moisture gauge is a must for the homeowner.

In contrast, dual-stage wood gasification boilers (OWGB) employ three steps that uses more of the available energy from the wood and results in less smoke. These furnaces are more efficient than traditional OWBs and can be used for various fuels. Wood gasification boilers require dry and well-seasoned firewood. Most wood can be seasoned within a year, however oak and other species that are hardy may require two years or more to fully mature. This is because they have less water content and denser mass. This lets them store heat for longer, thereby increasing efficiency and decreasing pollution. The EPA's "Burn Wise" website and Cornell Cooperative Extension can help homeowners understand how to burn wood efficiently to minimize pollution to the air.

Low Maintenance

Modern outdoor wood stoves are designed to be environmentally friendly. Modern outdoor wood furnaces do not emit excessive CO2 or heat. They also burn more efficiently than indoor wood stoves. They also require less wood to produce the same amount of heat as traditional stoves.

Outdoor wood burners also require significantly less maintenance than indoor wood burners, and are more tolerant when it comes to the moisture content of the wood. However outdoor wood burners can only be used with properly treated or "cured" wood. This can take a year or more for certain kinds of wood. It is important to use a moisture meter to determine the amount of water of your wood before loading.

In the course of operation, it is crucial to examine the system on a regular basis for the accumulation of creosote. Creosote, a by-product of combustion, may build up in the chimney and flue when they are not cleaned regularly. It can be removed using a special creosote removal product that is poured into the fire. Regular cleaning of the chimney and flue can remove harmful creosote and increase efficiency.

In order to get 99% efficiency from combustion, Crown Royal Stoves designed a brand new air flow technique called Negative Pressure Gasification. This technology is employed in our EPA certified Pristine Series Outdoor Wood Furnaces to pull air up from the bottom and force all the gases through an enclosed secondary combustion chamber that is which is surrounded by water, with easy-to-clean turbulators. The result is a smokeless and pollution-free burning.