Many wood stoves come with specific directions from the manufacturer. You should read these before starting a fire in your wood stove to ensure that you're doing it properly and safely. If you don’t have the manual for your stove, check the manufacturer’s website for a copy. The best wood to use is seasoned wood that’s been drying for at least six months. Fresh wood contains too much water, and burning it will waste wood and money. Moreover, wet wood creates lots of smoke, and lots of creosote buildup.  Creosote is a combination of chemicals made up of unburned fuel. This material can build up in your chimney and can lead to chimney fires. In terms of type of wood, you can choose between hardwood and softwood. Hardwoods that come from deciduous trees are denser and produce a hotter and longer burn, so they're ideal for cold winters. Softwoods are less dense, so they produce a cooler fire that’s great for cool spring or fall nights.  Fireplace wood can be found at many convenience stores, gas stations, hardware stores, grocery stores, garden centers, wood suppliers, and online. Oxygen is one of the things that a fire needs to burn, and many wood stoves have one or more levers you can use to control valves that allow air into the firebox. When you're starting a fire, you want all the valves fully open.  The primary source of air in many wood stoves is an air intake under the grate that provides oxygen to the fire bed. Many wood stoves will have a lever under or beside the door that controls this valve. Stoves may also have a secondary air valve above the firebox to provide oxygen to the flames, as well as a damper that opens and closes the flue. The best way to get a fire going in a wood stove is to start with small pieces of wood that can increase the temperature inside the firebox and get the flames burning. To set up the kindling:  Crumple up five or six pieces of newspaper. Make sure the paper is dry. Place the newspaper balls into the center of the firebox. Lay up to 15 pieces of kindling on top of the paper. Make sure the pieces of wood are dry and small. Use a lighter or match to ignite the newspaper under the kindling. Light the paper in a few places, starting at the back and working your way toward the front. This will prevent you from burning yourself as you pull your hand out of the firebox.  Leave the door to the wood stove open for about five minutes to ensure the fire gets enough fresh air.  As the paper burns, it will ignite the kindling pieces on top, and this will get the fire going. Once the kindling has begun to burn, you can add some smaller logs to the fire when the original flames start to die down. Add at least three small logs to the fire, one at a time to avoid smothering the flames.  When you add wood to the fire, loosely stack the logs so that air can surround them as much as possible. Close the door most of the way, but leave it unlatched for about 15 minutes to prevent the fire from being smothered as it establishes itself.  Once the fire is fully established, after about 15 minutes, you can close and latch the door.
اقرأ تعليمات الشركة المصنعة. اختر الوقود المناسب. افتح جميع الصمامات. أضرم النار. أشعل النار. أضف بعض قطع الحطب الصغيرة.