How to Light and Load a Woodburner (Archer Challenger Stove)

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A PM2.5 meter measures the levels of specific sized particle matter in the air. There has been alot of press about the negative effects of running a woodburner in the home and we have heard first hand from owners who have been scared to use their stove for fear of the impact it is having in their home. While the levels in the room started off at a moderate level, whilst filming the levels continued to drop as the stove was pulling that air from the room in for combustion and replacing it with fresh air from outside. Smoke spillage when you open the door is something that has been associated with modern log burners, however as you can see from this video:kzbin.infoWkLt6qlZBo0?feature=share where we left the door open for 2 minutes - much longer than you would need to refill a stove - It has almost no impact on the room. This is thanks to, inpart lighting the stove using this top down method and getting that heat into the chimney straight away, ensuring a good draw, alongside burning seasoned dry hardwood. If you are concerned avout PM2.5 in the home, we have left a link to where you can buy a reader like the one we have used and check for yourselves, plus we have another video coming soon all about all the day-to-day things we do in the home that can generate PM2.5. Out of interest which do you think emitted more PM2.5 in our test, a wood burning stove or cooking a curry?