Category Archives: How To

Helpful Tips and Cooking on your Wood Stove

There’s a couple of great tips covered in this video about burning your wood stove. Don’t ever clean all the ashes out of the firebox, always leave an inch to an inch and a half of ash bed inside the firebox. It’s easier to start the fire, it builds a temperature quicker and you’ll establish…
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How to Create a Draft in a Cold Wood Fireplace

Every year we get phone calls from customers that say “my stove doesn’t work properly; I’m getting a lot of smoke in the room.” There is a way to overcome that really easily. Rather than starting the fire with newspaper and kindling, you first have to preheat the chimney. There is a way to safely…
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Top Hat — A Renewable Energy Business

What we work with is fire. Our whole business is to make people comfortable and enjoy their home to be warmer and safe. Roy built this business around renewable energy. Wood is a fantastic renewable resource for our area, you’re taking wood that would just decay and now you are making it into a fuel.…
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How to Burn Wise with an EPA Catalytic Stove

Catalytic stoves use a catalytic combustor to recirculate and burn the smoke that otherwise would leave the chimney as dirty wasted fuel. Unlike older stoves, this stove is most efficient if you load it fully. The air controls will then regulate the rate of burn if you don’t want a high temperature and with a…
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