Check Your Stove Week: Bottom Grate

It’s Check Your Stove Week at Gr8Fires. All this week we will be giving you short tests and visual checks to perform to make sure your woodburner is ready for winter.

Day 4: Check Your Bottom Grate

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Are you throwing unspent fuel out with your ashes?

If your bottom grate is warped then you probably are. That’s why today’s Check Your Stove Week tip is to take a close look at your grate.

If your bottom grate has become damaged in the time you’ve had it, you could be losing fuel through the misshaped gaps. And that means wasted money.

Why would my bottom grate be split or bent?

The cast iron grate of your stove is built to withstand high temperatures. But it’s still possible for it to get too hot. This is called overfiring and it is caused by loading too much fuel or allowing too much air into the stove, causing an intense burn that damages your grate.

Another major cause of problems with a grate is the use of pet coke (often because it’s been mixed in with other fuels without you realising).

If that’s happened to your grate, you can replace it with one that won’t waste your fuel.

Buy a replacement bottom grate for your stove.

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