Lighting a fire, top-down

[lph]

I'm so happy with having a woodstove I'll be sad to see warmer weather come in.

While our cat of course thinks it's the greatest thing since cat food...

[maillotpois]

That's a lovely stove - and cat!

I really need to learn how to do a fire right in the wood stove we have. My husband is such a pyromaniac that he just does it, then when I am by myself in the house that has the wood stove (which isn't often, granted), I never know what to do. I'm going to have to look up one of those videos Slowspoke mentioned!

[Becky]

I love the top-down method, though it requires me to split more wood down for our small woodburning insert than a bottom-up fire does.

[Irulan]

We have a lot of burn bans here because of inversion layer no matter how efficient they are. We finally pulled ours out and put in a gas stove.

edit - We have a lot of burn bans here due to inversion layers. All wood stoves are banned at certain times, no matter how efficient. We pulled ours and put in a gas stove.

[OakLeaf]

We have a lot of burn bans here because of inversion layer no matter how efficient they are. We finally pulled ours out and put in a gas stove.

I wish they'd do that here. The outdoor wood stoves have gotten really popular in the last three or four years, and people just don't even care what kind of wood they burn in those. Big clouds of smoke from wet moldy uncured softwoods just everywhere. Especially with all the storm damage, people have a lot of green wood this year.