First up, confession time, we have gas central heating and while the wood burner adds to the overall temp over winter but it isn't our main/only heat source.
So with this in mind, can you help me settle a minor arguement? My wife claims that once the stove is up to optimum temp that it's better to keep chucking logs on for the next 6 hours+. I jokingly call her "one more log Potter" but in all seriousness that is fuel (aka money) being burned. We won't freeze.
If you take the hassle of getting the stove lit and up to temp out of the equation (I've got this down to 5 mins building and 10 mins warming up) is there actually anything bad about using the woodburning stove for a short 2hr fire? Or put another way, is there a minimum duration that it should be run for?
I've searched the forum for "duration" "minimum time" etc... And couldn't see anything that answered this question directly.
So with this in mind, can you help me settle a minor arguement? My wife claims that once the stove is up to optimum temp that it's better to keep chucking logs on for the next 6 hours+. I jokingly call her "one more log Potter" but in all seriousness that is fuel (aka money) being burned. We won't freeze.
If you take the hassle of getting the stove lit and up to temp out of the equation (I've got this down to 5 mins building and 10 mins warming up) is there actually anything bad about using the woodburning stove for a short 2hr fire? Or put another way, is there a minimum duration that it should be run for?
I've searched the forum for "duration" "minimum time" etc... And couldn't see anything that answered this question directly.