How we've heated our house on 1 cord a year for the last 34 years: Tips and tricks for burning firewood in a fireplace or wood stove to efficiently heat your house. If you cut your own wood it's a cheap way to heat. But it's important to burn a CLEAN EFFICIENT FIRE, for more heat and less pollution. Burning wood creates 400 times more fine particle air pollution than oil or gas.
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The glass doors I found on Amazon are NOT air tight, and say to leave the doors open when burning the fire, which defeats the purpose if you want to heat your house. You might be able to find air tight glass doors at a fireplace shop, or have them custom made, but if you can afford to buy and install it, an insert is much better.
A certified wood burning fireplace insert is more efficient than glass doors.
You'll also need a chimney liner kit which comes in many sizes: amzn.to/31Lapo6
Measure your fireplace opening width, height and depth, and be sure to order an insert that will fit.
Our house came with an open fireplace. For $300 in the 1980's we had custom airtight Pyrex glass doors made, greatly increasing the heat output. Plus we added double mylar to the windows in our house, which made a huge difference.
Video includes: Creating an outside air intake directly into the firebox, drying firewood, lighting a fire, keeping it burning well, keeping smoke out of your house when you open the doors, and using fans to extract heat and circulate it into the house.
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More tips for heating with wood at • Tips for Heating Your ... Includes how to clean the glass, replace the gasket, split kindling, using candle wax shavings to get a fire going, building a drying rack above your fireplace to dry towels or clothes, and adding ashes to your garden or lawn - a source of potassium, calcium and boron, and half as alkaline as lime. Any charcoal that's left over after a fire is also good for the soil, to help hold nutrients.
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