Helping to Keep Fuel Bills Down

Using Your Stove to Reduce Heating Cost’s Some Useful Hints

Light your stove in your normal way using wood, ensure you have a good flame, then reduce your air supply to make the stove burn slowly, don’t turn the air off, allow just enough air to burn, if you have a multifuel burner we would then suggest adding smokeless coal, this will burn for hours and give a great background heat, leave your internal doors open and let the heat circulate around your home, if your stove can give a rise of just a few degrees your gas heating bill will be drastically reduced.

Keeping your stove in overnight is recommended, ensure there is always a small amount of heat going into your property whilst you sleep, we sell a product called Lekto Night Briquettes, this is a slow burning Heatlog that just keeps your stove in overnight, it does not produce lots of heat, so it’s no good as a day burning Heatlog where you need heat, it’s designed for a small background heat especially good at keeping your stove alight at night, these are in the Special Offer section, a full description can be found there.

Do not burn cheap wood, pallet wood, trees that have been chopped down, or the local farmer has cheap wood, they will say it’s seasoned. Burning these types of woods will eventually block your chimney and in many cases will cause chimney fires which are very difficult to put out, the wood is generally slow burning with a poor heat output, burning these types of wood will cost you much more than you think, please stay away from cheap/free wood.

Kiln Dried Hardwood seems to cost more money:- However Kiln Dried Hardwood burns very, very hot, you will not need to burn so many logs, for instance:- you may need 8 normal logs to get your room hot, burning Kiln Dried Hardwood logs you will need 2 to 3 to get the same warmth, so you will burn less, hence you will save money, the biggest point to remember is that Kiln Dried Hardwood will keep your chimney/flue clean and does not cause a tar build up, not having to clean your flue so often, saving you more money.

 

An Understanding of Hardwoods

Oak, is the hardest and most dense of firewood that we sell, it is harder to light but burns longer as it’s so dense, it gives a great long burn with a very good heat output.

Ash, has a good density and is our bestselling firewood, it lights and burns well with a great heat output

Birch, is the next densest of hardwoods that we sell, it’s easier to light but burns slightly  faster, but gives a great heat output,

Alder, is our best-selling firewood, it’s the lowest price, it lights and burns very well and gives a good heat output, it does burn faster than all our other hardwoods, so you will burn slightly more, however, our customers are very happy with this wood.