Brilliant videos ! thanks for the invaluable tips, absolutely great!

we had a wood burner installed 5 years ago, cost a fortune to buy and have installed because we wanted to see the flames of a real fire (we have central heating so we didn't really need it) we only used the wood burner for a couple of weeks because the glass kept going black and we got fed up with cleaning it every day. We've just started using it again and we knew about the Jenga kindling set-up but the things I didn't know until I saw your videos......

1) I kept cleaning out the ash every day
2) the wood was probably too high in moisture ( i have a moisture meter now) and probably soft wood too.
3) I turned down the air flow too soon after lighting ( basically once there was flames i turned down)
4) leaving the door open slightly to get the kindling going

As you say I probably wasn't listening but we don't remember being told about getting the burner up to temperature so the air wash works properly, our log burner also has side view glass but I don't think the air wash works verv well at the sides.

When you say "up to temperature" what temperature would he flue thermometer be? and where I would get one? I love the idea of your very long matches

Finally I would strongly recommended natural fire lighters they produce hardly any smoke and get the kindling burning quickly.

Once again many thanks

Geoff, Broadstairs, Kent

Having a wood burning stove fitted on Tuesday and have been watching all your videos thank you for your insight I feel well clued up now and confident that I know what I’m doing

The upside down lighting technique works for me, it warms the flue first plus I find I don’t need to open the door for the best part of an hour.

My husband and I moved into our cottage rental in June. Over the past month we have had to start the wood stove.  We have been slowly figuring out starting a fire which has been okay; however, today we came upon your video.  Well “thank you “ does not express how all your tips have helped.  Simple explanations maybe but to the new people learning like us a really huge difference.  Since watching it yesterday we have followed your tips about warming stove/starting stove and oh my goodness the difference is Crazy Awesome!! No more smoke coming back into room and the way it starts is unbelievable.  Thanks so very much!!!

A moisture meter is an essential piece of kit with a wood burning stove. Don't just check the outside. Split the log with a small axe and measure the water content on the inside. You could well be in for a shock.  That also applies very much to kiln dried logs. A quicker and easier way to light a wood burning stove is to simply place a log to the rear of the stove, place a firelighter directly in front of it and rest the kindling against the log over the firelighter. Wood always burns better with air flowing over it rather than through it. Any multifuel stove can be transformed simply by removing the grate and setting the fire on a bed  of ashes.

I also have the Heta 45. Awesome stove and an awesome video. Thank you for the information. 👍

Thank you so much for this very clear to understand well explained  video.  So much information and not rushed. I have noticed with the fireplace in my rented house struggles to keep going and just smoulder and fills my house with smoke after I clean out most of the ash. I couldn't understand why until now. So now I won't be emptying all of the ash. It just never made sense to me. When every other video in most says clean most if not all of the ash.  Thank you kindly.

I eliminated the kindling hassle by making my own natural gas log lighter. I notched the underside of the fire brick that lines the bottom of the firebox, sized.to accept the perforated 3/8 black pipe log lighter. The gas escapes in the spaces between the fire brick.

what a nice guy

I wish i could get the stoves you guys have over there, Australia doesnt have much in the way of nice heaters, ours are the size of huge unsightly washing machines......... But we ended up importing a Morso 7900s series stove which is nice but still large.......

I'm looking to get a multi fuel stove & using smokeless coal. Any chance of doing a starter video like this to show how it's best to use your burner if your not using longs. From what I've been told using longs isn't cheep & has a low burn time.

Brilliant video, many thanks.

Can you do a video on multi fuel stoves and lighting smokeless fuel

I'm completely new with the woodburning stove as it was only installed 3 days ago. First day I was taking it very easy and just playing with lighting etc (no wood ash obviously either down below. Today I think I did a whole lot better but possible reduced the air flow a little too much. I went out with it damped down for a few hours and found it still alight and managed to get it too rekindle. The glass was blackish and now I've build it up a bit, along with the confidence. Do you think the glass will clean itself? Its a Burley Brampton. Thanking you for your instructive video lessons.

Excellent video learned alot 👍

Excellent content (pity about the video quality). Really helped me a lot. Thanks!

Very good knowledge based information. Thank you much!

So useful! Thank you.

Hi , yesterday we got a Ruby Phoenix installed...I was worried about how many types of wood we can use/allowed.

Great video. Well explained. Thank you for sharing.