Increase the Life Expectancy of Your Outdoor Furnace
Steps You Can Take NOW!
Saving money gives us FREEDOM! But do you ever wonder whether you are doing everything correctly with your outdoor wood burning boiler?
Here are the TOP 5 Ways to make sure you get the MAX savings from your outdoor wood furnace:
1. You wouldn't drive your car without oil, right? Yet some people don't use corrosion inhibitor in their boiler.
Whenever water and steel touch, there is corrosion that begins INSTANTLY, unless the water is properly treated.
Our Outdoor Boiler Liquid Armor water treatment is formulated to protect your exact grade of steel in your outdoor boiler.
To read more about what happens to an outdoor boiler that does not have water treatment, click HERE.
2. VERIFY that you are using wood boiler water treatment and that your boiler water is properly treated. Send a water sample to our Outdoor Boiler Lab for your FREE water test and analysis.
The results of this test will tell you what you need to do to make sure your water is properly treated. In most cases, the test results give peace of mind knowing that your boiler is protected.
Click HERE for answers to every question possible regarding the FREE Water Testing Services, including:
- Why use outdoor boiler water treatment?
- How much should I use?
- How do I collect the water sample?
- How do I get water sample bottles?
- Where do I send my water sample for FREE testing and analysis?
- And many more!
3. Ash Management - When it comes to this important maintenance item, remember LESS ASH IS BETTER.
Some people allow deep layers of ash to build up in their outdoor wood stove. This first causes reduced efficiency, but then quickly destroys the steel.
NEVER allow ash to build up in your wood stove deeper than three inches. Remove ash every few days, and completely remove ALL the ash and scrape your firebox at least monthly.
Click HERE to read how ash removal will enable you to have a "Forever Furnace"!
4. Sediment Removal - Sediment buildup is the "Secret Killer" of outdoor wood burners. But taking care of this is simple! Just open your drain valve once per year and allow the water to run clear.
Click HERE for more about this simple but important procedure.
5. Operations and Maintenance - There are two important points here: First, you should never OVERFILL your firebox with firewood. We call this "Topping Off" the boiler. (This is not about furnace water, it is about putting too much wood in your firebox.)
If you overfill your firebox, the furnace never completely dries out. All outdoor boilers MUST be run in a dry state every day to keep the steel protected.
To do this properly, don't overfill your firebox. Then DON'T ADD FIREWOOD to your firebox again until the previous load of firewood has burned down almost completely to ash. This gives your outdoor heating system several hours of burning with just hot dry coals.
If you "Top Off" your firebox with fresh firewood before the previous load of firewood has had a chance to burn down to coals, the furnace never burns dry. Again, all outdoor boilers MUST be burned in a dry state every day for several hours.
Click HERE for the complete article on this topic.
Second, don't forget the simple list of annual maintenance items mentioned in your owners manual. Click HERE to see a copy of the owners manual.
Conclusion
Owning an outdoor boiler is not that complicated. But these are just a few important things to remember!
If you follow these Top 5 Ways To MAX Your Outdoor Wood Furnace Savings, your outdoor furnace will run with high efficiency for decades, saving you thousands of dollars. This will make your life easier so you can have more fun!
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