With the increased popularity of woodburning fireplaces in the home and the continued use of outdoor woodburning fireplaces it is becoming more important to understand the different types of wood available to consumers and their varying burn qualities. There are many brands of woodburning fireplaces from such manufacturers as Jotul woodburning stoves and Morso woodburning stoves, and many styles such as corner woodburning fireplaces and zero clearance freestanding woodburning fireplaces, but one fact remains true in that they all burn wood.
In terms of wood for your woodburning fireplaces one of the best pieces of advice we can offer is to make sure of your wood supply before you strike the first match. It really is futile to get a fire going and then rummage around for fuel to replenish it. Experience of the level of wood consumption by your woodburning fireplace will allow you to get in supplies to cover up to six months burning, a factor only restricted by the amount of covered storage space available.
So what wood burns well in your woodburning fireplace? It will be obvious that generally speaking, dead wood burns better than green wood (i.e. living or very recently processed), although very dead wood such as elm becomes almost fire-proof. It is also obvious that in order to start any fire in our woodburning fireplace we must begin with smaller sticks known as kindling, gradually adding bigger twigs, then smallish logs and ultimately logs of the ideal size for your woodburning fireplace. In the case of freestanding woodburning fireplaces the size of fuel will be smaller.
The easiest wood to light and the quickest burning are the soft-wood conifers, such as pines, larches, cedars and spruces because such woods are light, resinous and reasonably easy to light. But for your woodburning fireplace manufacturers such as Kiva woodburning wall fireplaces and Buck woodburning stoves recommend the use of hard-wood deciduous trees such as oak, beech, ash, hornbeam, maple, plane, lime, sycamore,etc. These can be a little more difficult to light, but they have tremendous heat content, and they burn slowly and without splutter which is an inherent danger of the resinous soft-woods. If there be such a thing as an ideal all-round wood for your woodburning fireplaces then most pundits would plump for ash as it is easy to chop or split and it burns steadily but not too quickly. Beech is probably a good second as it gives a bigger flame than ash but burns faster. For those wanting wood that will give a pleasant sweet smell whilst burning steadily apple, cherry or most fruit woods are an ideal alternative.
Hopefully this information will help owners of woodburning fireplaces to make more informed decisions on obtaining wood supplies. To further this decision process there are many reviews of the most efficient woodburning fireplaces including details of EPA Phase II compliant woodburning fireplaces and zero clearance freestanding woodburning fireplaces. The World Wide Web also has many articles and chat boards about woodburning fireplaces including corner woodburning fireplaces.
