"K" wrote in message
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Janet Tweedy writes


You should not have that much ash, a wood burner needs to burn on a
bed
of
ash - I only empty a bit of mine out once a week.


I never burn on a bed of ash and I have a multi fuel Hunter stove. It
wouldn't get enough draught beneath the wood to burn properly. Only needs
a bed of ash for coal. I burn all the time and would always riddle the ash
away before reloading in the morning .

That's interesting, because our stove came with a grate to use with coal,
and instructions to remove the grate and use a bed of ash for wood -
entirely the opposite way around.

I can only say that my stove came with the same instructions and I've been
burning wood on a bed of ash for more than 20 years now. It seems to work.