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 the dependence on nonrenewable fossils fuels and help to create a more resilient energy strategy.

For efficient combustion, it is important to use wood that has been well-seasoned. Green or unseasoned wood has higher moisture content and can create creosote accumulation, which can affect performance.

Efficient

Outdoor wood burners have been around for many years. They are a cost-effective and eco-friendly method to heat your home. However, the typical design of OWBs that encourages the slow and cooler burning that causes less combustion and a higher amount of smoke, creosote, as well as particulates. These unburned fuels could cause health problems and fire hazards. They also degrade the environment.

Additionally the visible smoke plume OWBs generate can make neighbors complain. This could result in DEC (Department of Environmental Conservation), taking enforcement action. This kind of public relations issue could have a serious impact on the value of your property, and could even result in your OWB being shut down.

Crown Royal Stoves has a line of outdoor large wood burning stove furnaces that are EPA Certified. The Pristine Gasification Series utilizes technology to improve the efficiency of combustion and create an unburned, clean and smoke-free. This is done by using a negative-pressure air system that draws fresh, dry, heated, filtered air from the bottom and then pushes it out through the chimney much faster than traditional outdoor wood boilers. This is accomplished through a unique design that utilizes an encapsulated, multi-pass heat exchanger made of 409 Titanium Enhanced Stainless Steel.

Properly used properly, the Pristine Series OWB can achieve an 99% efficiency in combustion for a smoke-free and cleaner fire. It consumes less wood and produces significantly less emissions than traditional OWBs. To further maximize your OWB's performance it is crucial to burn dry, clean, seasoned wood. Seasoning your wood for 6 months or a year prior to burning is recommended and helps ensure a smoother and more efficient burn.

In addition to increasing the efficiency of your wood stove it is also possible to increase its efficiency by performing an "dry burn" every week. This method reduces creosote which increases the efficiency of boilers and extends the life of your boiler. By affixing a creosote-removing stick to your stove each time you fill it, you can drastically reduce the amount of creosote that you use. This product is available from Wisconsin Wood Furnace.

Clean

A wood-burning stove can be extremely dirty due to burned soot particles. They are difficult to get rid of so make sure you remove any buildup from the glass of your stove immediately. Otherwise the soot will get harder and become more difficult to get off. It is crucial to use the right cleaners, but you should also avoid damaging the glass surface with anything that could scratch it. This could cause a weak point that will shatter glass when exposed to extreme temperatures.

Be sure to let your wood stove cool completely before cleaning it. Also, ensure that the area around it is covered with newspaper. This will prevent any spillage of ash which can stain and mark surfaces.

It can take up to one year for your stove's seasoning to be complete, depending on the quality of the wood you use. The wood that is seasoned will not only burn more efficiently, but also produce less creosote. This is the substance that builds up on your chimney, which reduces efficiency and posing an hazard for fire. If you're using unseasoned wood or are just beginning an outdoor fire fireplace, it's recommended to open the lower backdoor and scoop out the ashes into a non-combustible container each week.

A sediment flush is recommended on your boiler every four years. It is a simple flush lasting five seconds from the bottom drain valve on your boiler. This will remove any debris that has accumulated within the system and help ensure that your boiler is in good functioning condition.

After you have cleaned the exterior of your fireplace outside, it is time to clean it. Before you begin, make sure to cover the stove's area with newspaper. It is also beneficial to wear gloves and protective eyewear. You should also have a metal ash canister along with a scraping tool as well as shovel. You can use a cloth as a shield to protect the refractory while 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 acclaim. They were one of the "it" trends of the 1990s, as were hairstyles with mullets. They're not like the popular EPA wood stoves, which are designed to burn at low temperatures and continuously. They have a higher rate of fire and produce more smoke. Some local governments restrict or ban their use.

OWBs work best in homes with high levels of insulation. Smoke that is thick and smoldering can also be a nuisance to neighbors, resulting in many OWBs to be shut down or even sued. In order for OWBs to function properly, they should be operated with dry wood with a low moisture content. Unseasoned or green large wood burning stove will reduce efficiency, causing creosote to build up and decrease the life of the burner. A moisture gauge will allow you determine how long it takes for wood to dry.

In contrast, dual-stage wood gasification boilers (OWGB) utilize three steps of process that makes use of more available energy in the wood, resulting in less smoke. These kinds of furnaces are more efficient than conventional OWBs and can be used with a wider range of fuel. Wood gasification boilers require dry well-seasoned and seasoned firewood. The majority of wood will season over the course of the course of a year. Oak and other tough trees can take up to two years. This is because they have lower volume of water and a greater density. This lets them store heat longer, thus increasing efficiency and reducing pollution. The EPA's "Burn Wise" website and Cornell Cooperative Extension can help homeowners learn more about burning wood efficiently to minimize pollution to the air.

Low Maintenance

Modern outdoor wood furnaces have been designed with the environment in mind. Unlike indoor wood burning stove [extra resources] wood burners that generate significant smoke modern outdoor furnaces burn efficiently and without the release of excessive heat or carbon monoxide. They also require less small wood burner to produce the same amount of heat as traditional stoves.

Outdoor wood burners require less maintenance and are more forgiving of moisture content in wood than indoor wood burning stoves. Outdoor wood burners are suitable for wood that has been properly "cured" or seasoned. It can take a year or more for certain types of wood. It is crucial to make use of a moisture meter to measure the amount of water of your wood prior to loading.

When the system is in operation, it is necessary to check the system regularly for creosote build up. Creosote, which is a byproduct of combustion, may build up in the flue and chimney if they are not cleaned regularly. It can be removed with a special creosote removal product that is poured into the fire. Regularly cleaning the flue and chimney will remove dangerous creosote accumulations and improve efficiency.

In order to achieve 99% combustion efficiency, Crown Royal Stoves designed an innovative air flow technology known as Negative Pressure Gasification. Our EPA certified Pristine Series outdoor wood furnaces utilize this technology to pull air from the bottom, directing all gasses through an insulated water surrounded secondary combustion chamber that is easy to clean turbulators for a smokeless & pollutant-free burn.