Safety Tips for Using Wood Burning Stoves and Fireplaces

Author: Jane

It is becoming colder and colder, a variety of heaters will be used to warm the house, include wood burning stoves and fireplaces. They have become a must for every family in UK, they offer their owners a warm home. However, safety can't be ignored when we are using wood burners and fireplaces. Every winter, we always can read some news about wood stoves or fireplaces caused fire accident, even make some people lose life. Therefore, we will talk about the usage of wood burning stoves and fireplace, at the same time, offer some safety tips.

• First at all, get the one with the best quality you can afford. It is essential to get a stove with high-quality for your house. High quality means high efficiency and enough safe. As known to all, Amesti is famous for safety, Astove also add wood stoves by Amesti into their range.
• Make sure that your stoves or fireplaces have installed properly. Generally speaking, you should spare at least 36 inches between the combustible surfaces and wood stoves. At same time, offer proper floor support and protection.
• Check your chimney annually and cleaned if it is necessary, especially it has not been used for a long time, just like now, you haven't used it for half of year. You should inspect your chimney totally and clean it before you light the first fire in your stove.
• Keep your flammable materials away from your stoves or fireplaces, or a spark from stoves can easily ignite them.
• When you plan to light a fire, please don't use flammable liquids or use them to accelerate fire.
• Never burn charcoal indoors, because it can give off lethal amounts of carbon monoxide.
• Use some paper when start the fire, but don't burn too many papers to build roaring fires if the fire has established. It is possible to ignite creosote in the chimney by overbuilding the fire.
• If the fuel of your stoves or fireplaces is synthetic logs, burn them according to the directions on the package. Never cut or split one log into two or several parts to quicken the fire, or add more than one log at a time as they will burn unevenly and release higher levels of carbon monoxide.
• Be sure your fireplace is totally off before you go to bed. Never close your damper when there still has hot ashes in the stove, because a closed damper will help the fire to heat up again and force a large number of toxic carbon monoxide pour into your house.

With these safety tips, keep warm and keep safe with your cast iron wood burner or firepleace.

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