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!<\/p>\n
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! <\/p>\n
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 \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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