Duration of wood burning stoves.

[mark_goldfinch]

Evening stove lovers. Just enquiring to how long you keep yours burning for with out letting the embers completely die. Just mastering the overnight shutdown on mine and it has now been roaring away 24 7 since Saturday. Loads of lovely heat throughout the down stairs. Thanks mark.

[Marsh Monkey]

my bonfire went out over the weekend for the first time since august....or doesn't that count

[mark_goldfinch]

Umm not quite the response I was after but thanks anyway

[se7enthdevil]

i think big j has his going for about 3-4 months non stop...

[Lancstree]

I can achieve an overnight burn with just wood if I fill it up around 10-11pm and shut it down. Open up the vents around 6.30 am and get some small stuff back on it and away you go. Not bad for a smoke controlled fire with a door that doesn't seem to seal properly.

[forestgough]

Here in damp mid wales kindling was in short supply in the old days,so they never let the fires go out ,some burnt constantly for 50 or 60 years.They would even take the fire with them if they moved house.

[mark_goldfinch]

I can achieve an overnight burn with just wood if I fill it up around 10-11pm and shut it down. Open up the vents around 6.30 am and get some small stuff back on it and away you go. Not bad for a smoke controlled fire with a door that doesn't seem to seal properly.

 

Yeah that's how I'm finding it easiest to achieve an overnight burn. Cheers mark.

[Stubby]

I can achieve an overnight burn with just wood if I fill it up around 10-11pm and shut it down. Open up the vents around 6.30 am and get some small stuff back on it and away you go. Not bad for a smoke controlled fire with a door that doesn't seem to seal properly.

 

Maybe its coz the door doesn't seal properly that it stays alight , just getting enough air ?

[Dean Lofthouse]

There,ll nearly always be a little hole drilled in the side or somewhere to allow a minute amount of air in on a complete shutdown. Mine has two, one on either side. I couldn't always achieve an over night burn because I live ontop of a hill and the house is called "windy ridge" so the draw is sometimes really bad.

 

I found that I'd I stick a small screw in one of the holes it works a treat and now I can achieve an over night burn no problem. My stove is now lit for five to six months solid

[essential]

Keep mine alight all the time, non stop for 4 months, only need to put about 4 logs on , shut her down then throw some logs on in the morning and of she goes. Morso squirrel brilliant little stove.