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Title: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by jellybean on Sep 16^th, 2012 at 11:24am

Hello,
We are looking to get a wood burning stove installed in our newly-renovated casita.� As we have never spent any time there, it's not clear by what time, as Autumn approaches, we need to have the stove installed reading for lighting.

Appreciate it's in the hands of the vagaries of the weather, but (roughly) when do you light your stoves?� Imagine you light them at first just in the evening?

Many thanks in advance.

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by Bigyin on Sep 16^th, 2012 at 12:02pm

On average, early November. Yes, evenings only mainly but later through the winter, backed up with gas or paraffin stoves.
Bit of a coincidence that I have just got one available for sale. Can send you details if you like and I'll be advertising it shortly on here. It's a corner stove so it depends where you intend to site it.

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by Bigyin on Sep 16^th, 2012 at 12:06pm

BTW, have you got your logs in yet ? If you need to buy them in, the earlier you do so the easier they are to get hold of and cheaper.

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by jellybean on Sep 16^th, 2012 at 12:18pm

Many thanks. Bigyin,
Yes, please send me the details.

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by chrispain on Sep 16^th, 2012 at 4:29pm

If you are looking to buy logs we sell them at a trailer load for 70e in the tortosa area, but could deliver further for a small fee to cover fuel etc

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by bruixot on Sep 16^th, 2012 at 9:12pm

What size trailer?
Most wood sellers sell by weight and supply the weight receipt. There are weigh stations at assorted places. The current going rate is 14cents a kilo. Some sellers charge for delivery some don't if it is local to them. And the best time to light your stove is when you're cold. : )
Bruixot

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by ColinB on Sep 26^th, 2012 at 10:19pm

14 or 15 cents for 2 year old olive or orange is right, and I'm interested in a couple of tonnes at that rate. To the original post : light it when you need it, the great (er grate) thing about woodburners is their almost immediate output of heat. Use plenty of dry kindling and small loglets to start off with. The biggest problem you might come across is cheap Spanish woodstoves are made of thin steel and the doors usually aren't air tight and so the draft isn't totally controlable. Damp cheap wood is your worst enemy so do not think about using olive you've hacked off in the same year. Not only the flue will coke up but you'll not get the same calorific value from fresh wood that you wood wood if you used old would. Geddit?

Title: Re: Wood burning stoves - when do you light them?
Post by sue100 on Sep 27^th, 2012 at 8:44am

Also avoid fresh Carob ....

Nasty stuff in that for the chimney ;D