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Pile wood off the ground on scrap lumber or wooden pallets.
The time-honored way to cure wood is to buck, split, and stack wood off the ground for one full year. How-ever, wood can generally be
reduced to 20 per cent moisture content in two to three months. The ideal 10% to 15% may take longer (almost 18 months).
2.4. Wood types and calorific value
A wood’s efficiency does not depend only on its type, but also on its humidity, as well as the temperature of the combustion chamber.
For more efficient and longer burning, without emission of hazardous substances, woods must be dry. Ideally, their humidity percentage must
not exceed 10% to 15%.
If this percentage is over 20%, the wood is not burned properly, whereas if the piece of wood has been cut recently, the humidity is over 60%
making it unsuitable for burning. The reason for that is that the fire will be weak and pale and will produce dense smoke, unburned tar and
creosote, soiling the ceramic glass and the flu.
It is preferable to get your wood supplies during the summer months and store them, to ensure better combustion quality during the winter.
Useful tips
Always choose dry firewood.
Avoid wood that pops (chestnut, conifers such as cedar, spruce and pine), as they may damage your fireplace or the flue.
Pay attention to the size of the logs. Good firewood must have been cut at least twice.
You should prefer oak, beech, olive wood, which is hard wood with high density since they will burn for longer.
Briquettes
They ignite very easily, and burn slowly. They are economically advantageous because you will burn smaller quantities compared to common
firewood and they are easily stored. Also, you have less quantity of ashes vs. to wood.
WET
DRY
0%
humidity
100%
thermal efficiency
10%
humidity
88%
thermal efficiency
30%
humidity
63%
thermal efficiency
50%
humidity
39%
thermal efficiency