I’ve made tons of fires outside but the darn stove wouldn’t work for me seeing your damper helped my problem lol

Thank you buddy

What is that wire behind the fireplace? What is it for?

Great video

Why smog coming out, my fire alarm rang because of that...please tell me

Why smog coming out, my fire alarm rang because of that...please tell me

Thank you so much! :).

Nothing like a house full of smoke while you’re trying to get that puppy going lol

I'm new to wood stoves and this was the video I was looking for. Everything put into simple terms and explaining the functions of everything. You're a lifesaver man.

I use a wood stove to heat my house when it’s real cold…like it is now, at -30. There were some tips in here that I didn’t know about. Great video, very informative

Awesome vis

Temp stove not pipe

Great explanation of key points of how to get a fire started in the wood stove. Thank you, greatly appreciate the tutorial!

Hello, I see some wood stoves at $500 and some for $4000. There must be a difference between stoves but I’m not sure what too look for and what not to get. I have approximately 2000 sq ft of living space

Thank you , how do i use the tiny damper aboce door?

I buy walmart Dura flame fire starters and cut them in half. 40 pck. It figures out to $0.25 per fire start. Works great.

what kind of wood have you used for the deck and privacy wall?

It's like a campfire that goes out overnight once you got that hot coal bed it's easy to get restarted in the morning

Good information, but you forgot to mention pre-heating the flue before starting the fire. This step seems to be missing from most wood stove videos on YT. I struggled to understand why my house would fill with smoke for the first few minutes, despite the fact that I was doing everything shown in the videos. I eventually learned that not pre-heating causes cold air to push down on the fire and prevents smoke from exiting the flue (until it warms up).

The dimond 😂 works tho

Your diamond theory doesn't make sense.. I invested in a damper. No one should ever use their mouths to strengthen a flame in a wood stove sparks are more likely to happen and that is so dangerous to the surrounding area in your house.

Excellenté

Thank you so much. Newly divorced and needed sone tips. You’re awesome!

Nice video. Thank you for your time and effort Sir.

I am perplext... Why let all the smoke into house by "slowly feeding the fire" if one can just put up the pile at once? I use two handfulls of aspen shavings from pet store as base, 1fatwoodstick + 1birch with bark (or just 2 fat wood sticks) on top of it, and then couple of small dry logs before I start the fire. Then, when pile is set, I put 4 matches into shavings, right under fat wood or birchbark and light them with 5th match. Close the door and enjoy! Fire is going instantly, no smoke at all. Oh... and the draft I create from UNDER the pile - through that small trap door mentioned, and the ash tray - I turn trap-door 45° and pull ashtray about 3mm to start fire. When its burning, I completely close the ash tray, it still pulls enough... (my valve on the side is not working apparently, got it when moved into this house as is), honestly I think the draft is best if it goes from UNDER the fire, blowing right into coals...

I have the same exact stove. The instructions said to not install a damper on the stove pipe. Doing so stops your secondary burn. The way this stove works is when it gets up to temp.(close to 1000 degrees) you close the primary air and the draft will cause oxygen to enter through the secondary air tubes at the top of the fire box that burns the smoke. This is why this stove is so efficient.

My new house in a rural area has an oil furnace but also used to have a wood stove, the chimney has a hole for the stove. I like the idea of the wood stove as it looks cozy. Thinking about getting a stove put in. Thanks for the informative video.

Ive built hundreds of fires this way-and still do sometimes. But nowadays when im at home i just use a propane torch, kindling in a can. I use regular kindling splits and blast it with the torch, and alternately blast the chimney pipe with my torch too, to force heat to the insode of my chimney pipe and induce draft. Getting a draft started is the biggest help to starting a fire quickly. Also, if ur wood stove sat unused for several days and ur trying to start a fire in damp chilly wet weather its best ti blast the outside of ur chimney pipe with the torch for a bit to push that heavy plug of damp cold air out of ur chimney and help prevent an inversion, which is when ur stove reverses on start up and smokes out ur house

I have an Elehance 36 model in my basement. If I left the door open luke that, there'd be a ton of smoke in the house😂

Thank you so much for this! I'd buy a little pamphet if you sold em, I saved the PDF guide! We got a house with one they had converted to Gas, and to do so they drilled a couple holes in the side about the width of your pinky to run gas lines into. Is it possible to cap those holes and go back to burning wood? I was thinking carriage bolts, maybe with high temp JB weld in any gap left and capping on the outside with a washer and nut.

Since starting up a wood stove is a ritual for me, I enjoyed learning new things.Im not sure why my installer didn’t put in a damper. I will check with Lopi stoves to see if I can install one.

Thank you! 😁

Excellent detail and explanation, thank you

Every time that I start my wood stove, I get a lot of smoke in the room, I've been following the instructions, door open, ByPass open and AirFlow open. What am I doing wrong?

Vine bark? Where do you find vines with bark lmfao

So a stove kreates negative pressure 🤔 So you have an inlet from the outside to feed air into the fire plase?

get a fireplace bellow so you dont burn your face

Who all did the diamond thing with their fingers after he showed it? 😂 I know I tried it.. 😂

Your glass is turning black which means you are burning the wood with moisture content. Great explanation otherwise, thanks.

Once you learned the real way, which is the upside down method, you should make another video.

I wouldn't want to be your neighbor with the way you're starting this fire. You need to burn from big in the bottom to small in the top, start by setting fire to the top of the pile. I thought this was common sense these days.

I’m a woman and I understood this

Danke. Also, wir füllen den Feuerraum einfach mit richtig trockendem Scheitholz, dann noch ein paar dünne Äste oder Tannenzapfen vorne dran und mit etwas Zeitungspapier angebrannt. Haptsache, das Holz ist richtig trocken. Deshalb trocknen wir es noch einmal 3 oder 4 Tage in einem Regal an der Seite vom Ofen nach. Brennt alles wie Zunder, ohne so eine lange Zeremonie beim Anheizen. Viele Grüße aus Deutschland.

Great job 👍

Top down is much easier. 2 big logs on bottom, 2 medium then kindling on top/in the middle.

Thank you

This may be the dumbest fireplace video I've ever seen! 😂

This thing can hold a fire!! I burn a lot of wood and it holds up. I would recommend this product.

Do we really need an american to tell us how to use a wood-burning stove?

Side note if you have a good newer wood stove do not ever put in a damper this will make the wood stove run bad!! These newer wood stoves are made to run properly without a damper 🙂