Wood Burning Stoves And Safety Measures

By Author: Ryan Hill
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Popularity of wood burning stoves is increasing every day, especially after the soaring of fuel costs towards the North. These can be used as a secondary heating source when you run short of regular cooking gas. Wood burning stoves are highly fuel efficient and can save your money to a large extent.

Reasons for the popularity of wood burning stoves

(a)Wood burning stove is highly energy efficient than an open fire. A modern wood burning stove with advanced feature is 80% energy efficient when compared with open fire.

(b)Few wood burning stoves have features to warm your home while cooking food, people living in cold regions can use these types of wood burning stoves.

(c)Wood burning stoves also make use of the clean burning technology which means it does not pollute the environment any way rather produces heat with less pollutant.

(d)Wood burning stoves use clean burning technology, a firebox is used to combust the unwanted hydrocarbons.

(e)Wood burning stoves are cleaner and less polluting than open fire especially they are low in emission.

(f)Wood burning stoves can be even ...
... used in smoke free zone as they are legally approved in urban area. They are 4 to 5 times less in particulate emission than a regular open fire.

(e) They look attractive and are available in various designs.
Safety measures and ways to avoid risks

(a)Wood smoke is generally filled up with pollutants if you do not maintain it properly there are chances of wood stove leakage. When using your wood burning stove if you smell of any smoke then it must be shut down immediately. Smoke released from wood burning stove can cause unwanted side effects like asthma, dizziness, respiratory related problems, etc. It can worsen the condition of an asthma victim and at sometimes may be life threatening.

Wood burning stove must be well maintained and frequently checked for leaks. Exhaust fan can be used while using wood burning stove as it prevents headache and suffocation in case of leakage.

(b)Use only seasoned wood for burning purpose and it also reduces smoke to a large extent.

(c)Never burn things like paper, plastic, cardboard, etc in your wood burning stove as it may cause excess smoke which can affect your respiratory system.

(d)Have your wood burning stove installed with the help of professionals who can fix it in the right way.

(e)Use logs of larger size which are well dried.

Wood burning stoves of different models are now available for sale online and they are well known for their fuel efficiency.