Lighting a fire, top-down

[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.