New house, first stove (Enviro Boston 1700 insert). Previous owners left about a half-cord, when I re-split and checked with moisture meter it was nice 14-15% on the inside. Also got two split cords delivered this fall, which is 22-23% inside moisture. Should I save the wetter stuff for winter 2015-2016 and just use the drier half-cord this year, or would it be OK to mix some of this in 50-50 with the drier stuff? Thanks, this is all new to me and this forum has been great.
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Welcome. If you can bring some of the wetter wood inside and dry it out for a week or two in advance you may be able to mix it with the drier wood.
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22% is pretty good especially for just delivered wood. You can probably get that to burn by itself but mixing it in with the dry wood will be better. Or buy a ton of compressed wood logs like Bio-bricks or Envi-blocks and mix it with those.
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