Burning Firewood

• Make sure your wood is dry - wet wood burns poorly and emits more smoke
• Light a fire using sufficient kindling to establish a hot fire quickly and open air vents fully
• Use small logs to get fire established
• Run combustion heaters on a high burn rate for the first 20-25 minutes of operation
• Don't turn your fire down (i.e. limit air supply) until it is well established with red coals
• Use large logs for slower burning once the fire is established
• Don't block the incoming air supply with logs
• Rekindle the fire quickly with a bit of newspaper and small wood if the fuel load has bunt down to only a few glowing coals.