Heat properly with a tiled stove
Two to three decades ago the tiled stove was part of normal heating equipment, especially in many good rooms in East Germany. In many places they have been replaced by other heating systems. If you have your own house, when fuel prices rise, you can rely on an alternative, inexpensive heating option, such as the tiled stove or fireplace. So that a tiled stove can be an optimal source of heat, you have to heat it properly.
The heating of living spaces with tiled stoves can also be found in the age of oil and gas heating. If tiled stoves are used correctly, they can be an inexpensive and environmentally friendly heating system. If a tiled stove is in poor condition and equipped with the wrong heating technology, the stove can quickly become a public nuisance.
Heat properly with a tiled stove
- It takes some experience to properly heat a tiled stove. Sometimes you have to test the fuel and the degree of dryness of the wood the oven heats up optimally. The actual current draft in the chimney (outside temperature, wind) also plays a role. Here you have to vary your settings.
- The air supply and the amount of fuel must not be too high when heating, otherwise the internal temperatures in the combustion chamber will be high. As a result, most of the heat flows out of the chimney or even the stove is damaged.
- Wood that you use for heating must be absolutely dry. Only then does it have the greatest calorific value. Pre-store wood in an airy place humidity protected place. Fresh wood has to dry for two years.
- If the wood hisses when it burns in the stove, it is far too damp. The chimney will smoke heavily and even rot over time.
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A wood stove is not a waste incinerator
- Paper and plastic do not belong in a wood stove. You should only burn dry wood in the tiled stove and also use it for lighting.
- You can make small wood chips. If these are absolutely dry, they burn like matches.
- If necessary, a crumpled sheet of newspaper will do. However, do not use magazines and only one sheet of paper.
- If you put a few pieces of wood on top of the still warm, not glowing, ash in the evening before going to bed, you will have perfectly dried wood for lighting the next morning.
A tiled stove that is technically optimally positioned and properly heated only produces white exhaust gases. In addition, there is no hot smoke coming out of the chimney. The heat does not go into the air, but is in the furnace and building.
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