Tertiary Air Query

[Commando]

Get a Burly . [emoji5]

Get a Woodwarm[emoji6]

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Commando said:

Get a Woodwarm

Yea . or a Woodwarm .

[pancakedan]

The issue i am having is as soon as i open the tertiary (Sa) plate on the back regardless of where its set doesn't seem to provide the effect i am after, if anything it decreases the performance of my fire. This is why i ended up shutting it becuase the fire was performing better without. 
 
My main issue with the Sa open any amount is that the kindling burns so rapidly that its basically gone by the time my smaller logs on the top have even had chance to ignite. If i reduce the Aa to combat this for a steadier burn then this starves the fire of the oxygen it needs at this stage. 
 
It really looks to me as though the air is getting in but is just getting sucked up the flue instead of circulating the firebox.  Would a flue damper perhaps help the firebox retain some heat and help the air get to where it needs to? Or does this then prevent as much air getting in as well? 
 
At the end of the day the fires im getting arent horrendous. I can get it running at a good temperature .but im just not getting the burn characteristics i would expect and dont feel like i have any control over the burn rate with the air controls. Over the course of the night the fire dies because the logs arent burning down to a decent set of embers for the next logs to be added and they dont burn evenly at all. 
 
Overall i appreciate its a balancing act but it seems to be too much faffing about at the minute and i just cant put my finger on it.

Try starting your fire top down, kindling on top, smaller logs at the bottom. I’m burning a lot of softwood at the moment and they produce zero coals, it’s all about timing and reloading the fire before they evaporate.

[Jimmy101]

6 minutes ago, pancakedan said:

Try starting your fire top down, kindling on top, smaller logs at the bottom. I’m burning a lot of softwood at the moment and they produce zero coals, it’s all about timing and reloading the fire before they evaporate.

Had a go at this method and quite liked it. Found it difficult to fit the bottom logs in due to the size and how narrow the fire bed is but I've just split a load of logs down so can have another go with those.  The multifuel grate reduces the fire bed size and im contemplating converting it to wood only. 

[pancakedan]

Had a go at this method and quite liked it. Found it difficult to fit the bottom logs in due to the size and how narrow the fire bed is but I've just split a load of logs down so can have another go with those.  The multifuel grate reduces the fire bed size and im contemplating converting it to wood only. 

If you’re not going to burn smokeless coal then I’d convert it to wood only. I’ve got to multi-fuels (that can’t be converted) and a wood burner. Knowing what I know now and how I use them, I should have got all wood burners!

[Stubby]

Should of said I suppose , my Burly is wood only . ( no grate )