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Air controls, top-down lighting, seasoning logs, the moisture meter, black glass, the CO alarm, booking the sweep and Smoke Control Areas. Every topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 65 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers and steps you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 61 topics.
It's a cold evening. You're kneeling in front of the stove with kindling in one hand, and you're not sure what to check before you strike the match.
The manual covers it somewhere in a paragraph between the warranty and the cleaning advice. Lines of text don't show you where to look.
In the book it's one page: the stove drawn from the front, with four checks marked on it: ash, glass, door seal, air controls.
Top-down lighting, the three air settings, reading the flame, the CO alarm and booking the sweep: each one has its own page too.
You look at the page, run the four checks and light it. No digging through the manual again.
Inside your stove, dry logs, lighting, air control, reading the flame and the glass, safety and the chimney, the UK rules, and fixes and the stove year: 65 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
It's Saturday and a load of logs has just been tipped on the drive. They look dry. But you want to know before they go in the stove.
In the book you open the moisture meter page: a log split in two, the pins pushed into the fresh face, and a box with the target: 20% or less.
The same goes for top-down lighting, the three air settings, black glass, the CO alarm and booking the sweep: each one on its own page.
Wood Stove & Firewood Illustrated is 8 parts and 61 topics, all drawn, with 15 common mistakes, the stove-year checklist and one page of rules at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
The stove in cross-section, what fire needs, the three stages of burning a log, primary, secondary and airwash air, the baffle and flue, and which type of stove you have.
Why wet wood causes most problems, using a moisture meter properly, hardwood and softwood, seasoning times, splitting and stacking, the log store, buying logs in the UK, log size and what never to burn.
The 4 checks before the match, top-down lighting and why it works, the first 15–20 minutes, a cold flue, opening the door without smoke and the whole sequence on one page.
The three settings for light, burn and reload, when and how far to turn down, why not to slumber it overnight, reloading, how much wood, the stove thermometer, over-firing and the weather.
The flame by colour, ghost flames, the smoke from outside, the 4 causes of black glass, cleaning the glass safely, how much ash to keep, and tar, creosote and glazing.
What carbon monoxide is, where the CO alarm goes and how often to test it, smoke alarms and the hearth, ventilation, booking the sweep, what the sweep checks, chimney fire signs and when to call the installer.
Smoke Control Areas, exempt appliances and authorised fuels, the Ready to Burn label and the 20% rule, Ecodesign stoves, installation paperwork and smoke nuisance with neighbours.
Won't light, smoke into the room, logs burning too fast, the door rope and glass seal, 15 common mistakes before and after, the end-of-season shutdown, the stove-year checklist and one page of rules.
At the end of the book: 15 common mistakes before and after, a stove-year checklist and one page of rules.
Black glass, a lazy flame, smoke when you open the door: 40 everyday situations to work through, each with the answer and the page to check.
The lighting steps, air settings and log-moisture targets on printable cards to keep next to the stove, so you never have to look them up again.
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You see the stove from inside, the air controls and top-down lighting step by step, so you light it the same way from the first evening.
You find the cause on the page: damp logs, air turned down too soon, a cold flue. Each one drawn with its fix.
You check what you do against the drawings, measure your logs properly and keep the sweep, alarm and seal checks on one yearly list.
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Yes. Part I shows the stove from inside, so you see why it does what it does, and the fixes and the 15 common mistakes are written for people who already light it. If it's your first winter, it starts from the beginning.
From Defra's practical guide to open fires and wood-burning stoves, the Clean Air Act and Smoke Control Area guidance, the 2020 domestic solid fuel rules (the 20% moisture limit) and Building Regulations Approved Document J. Where Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland differ, it's flagged. It covers closed wood-burning and multi-fuel stoves of any make; for model-specific settings, always check your manufacturer's instructions too.
No. It's an independent illustrated guide. Organisations and rules are named only to explain what they mean for you.
No. Installation, the flue, liners and any change to the chimney are always a job for a qualified installer, and the sweep still needs booking. The book explains how to use the stove, not how to install it.
Some of it is, spread over dozens of videos that don't agree on the air controls. Here it's one order, start to finish: one topic per page, checked against Defra's guidance and the UK rules, ready to print and keep by the stove. The 40 practice situations in the workbook are written for this book, based on everyday stove problems.
As a PDF by email, to the address you enter when you pay. The 2 bonus books come the same way.
No. It's a one-off payment.
It comes as a PDF by email, and you can print it at home or at a print shop. The Quick-Reference Cards are made to keep next to the stove.
You have 30 days. We refund everything if the file won't open, if the book isn't what you see on this page, if you were charged twice or if the email doesn't arrive: just email us.
No more rereading the manual and still guessing.
Top-down lighting: you see it drawn and that's it.
You light the stove knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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