Coal Dealer Tips To Get Your Coal Stove Started
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As you will soon find when talking to any coal dealer is that coal stoves are not that easy to get started. Plus there is a lot of work that needs to be carried out by you to ensure that the coal keeps burning at a regular temperature. Certainly if you do not keep to the right procedures you will soon find out just how easily a coal stove will go out.
In this article we provide several tips on the right ways to light a coal stove and which will ensure that it remains burning at a constant temperature once lit.
1. It is important that the kindling and paper use to help get a fire started in your coal stove is completely dry. Only when you have got these lit well and burning hot should you then start to add a few pieces of hardwood to the fire.
2. During this stage of lighting your coal stove it is important that the draft control point (usually found at the base) is kept fully open. This will allow the fire inside the stove to get established and for it to reach the right temperatures. Once the wood has been added allow a good bed of embers to be produced from it and then you can start to add small amounts of coal to the stove.
3. Gradually you need to add more small amounts of coal to the stove until you have a layer of around 1 to 2 inches of coal that is burning. Never add too much coal at any one time when lighting your stove and always allow that which you have added sufficient time to completely ignite before you add some more.
4. It is important that you fill your stove up to the highest point within it as the more coal it is burning then the far better it is going to function. However, even if your stove has lots of coal in it you don’t need to keep it running at the highest temperatures, but you can turn the amount of heat it is producing by restricting the amount of air flowing into it.
5. Also it is important that the draft control on your coal stove remains open until the coal you have put in is well light and you can see blue flames. Plus you should never leave this part of your coal stove fully open for extended periods of time as it could in fact cause internal damage and remember to ensure that the door to the ash pan remains closed at all times as well , except when it needs emptying.
As we have said previously a coal dealer will explain the difficulties of getting a coal stove started. However, if you keep in mind the steps we have provided above, you should find this particular task far easier. Also when it comes to lighting your coal stove only do so after the temperatures have fallen below 55 degrees Fahrenheit for several days on a trot. Unfortunately if you light before then the chimney attached to it will not be able to develop enough draft to help with the process of getting a fire lit.
