Woodburning
Stoves - Essential Information
From
The Open Fire Centre, Yorkshire St., Oldham, Lancashire:
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What is "Cleanburn or
Cleanheat" on a Woodburning Stove? "Cleanburn" and "Cleanheat" are terms which can mean almost anything.
You would need to talk to your Stove Specialist to find out about your chosen stove. True Cleanheat stoves usually have a tertiary air supply in the form of a series of holes in the rear firebrick or an aerated baffle plate which feeds oxygen into the outgoing flue-gasses. This causes the gasses to re-ignite, burning off any combustible particles and reducing to an absolute minimum, smoke emmissions. Tertiary air usually mean that the stove is unlikely to stay in overnight. Not all Defra Approved stoves use a Tertiary Air Supply. The Nestor-Martin stoves have gained Defra Approval without a tertiary air supply. They ensure clean burning by means of the firebox design which accurately controls the air-flow to achieve near complete combustion. The absence of the permanently open tertiary air supply, allows these stoves to be shut down more completely making the Nestor-Martin Stoves the only Defra Approved Stoves we know which routinely stay in overnight when burning wood. We have burned our Nestor-Martin Harmony H13 for more than 24 hours without attention, using an Approved Smokeless Fuel. |