Woops!

We’ve got some showers coming up over the next few days followed by a cold snap at the end of the week, so I thought that I’d better move as much of the wood I got ready yesterday into the house where it wouldn’t get wet, and so any that was already a bit damp could dry out and be ready to burn. So I did that this morning. A bit earlier on I was relaxing in front of the TV thinking that the ‘burning wood’ smell was rather nice but getting a little bit too strong, when I noticed that it was getting, well, a bit hazy in my lounge. When I investigated a bit further, I found that some of the wood that I’d placed next to the outside of the wood burner was actually glowing bright red and smouldering!

OK, I’m no expert about these things, but although I’d thought that any wood touching the side of the stove would get a bit warm, I’d never expected that it would get hot enough to actually catch fire! All I can say is that it was lucky that I was actually present to acquire this new-found snippet of knowledge, because if it had been left and all of the wood I’d stacked up ready to burn had then gone up, I’ve a sneaky suspicion that the whole house would have gone up with it as well!

Memo – don’t in future stack wood so that it’s touching the outside of the wood burner because that puppy gets a heck of a lot hotter than you expect 😯