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a t o t a l v i e w o f f i r e
There are 3 families of wood:
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hard
hardwood (oak, beech, ash, chestnut, hornbeam, walnut…)
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soft hardwood (poplar, willow, alder, birch…)
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coniferous trees (pine, spruce, fir, larch, D
ouglas fir…)
We recommend that you use firewood from the hard hardwood family. It has better heating power for an
equal volume. I.e., it has greater heating power for the same volume of wood burned.
Here is a table presenting the heating power, with equal humidity and volume, of the different species of
wood.
The heating power is presented on the basis of beech wood (set arbitrarily at 100).
Species
Heating power
Species
Heating power
Hornbeam
110
Birch
93
Beech
100
Chestnut
89
Ash
97
Maple
84
False acacia
97
Lime
76
Oak
96
Alder
71
Elm
96
Poplar
60
Hard
Species
eating power
Soft
Coniferous
Spruce
68
Fir
64
Larch
84
Pine
78
Recommended wood
Wood to avoid
Wood which must not be used