Maximize Efficiency and Make Your Firewood Last: Essential Tips for Your Outdoor Boiler

Using an outdoor boiler to heat your home is a smart decision and firewood is quite affordable and a renewable resource as well. However, efficiency is the key to prolong the times that you would use the wooden products to serve their maximum times. Here are four great techniques to ensure you gain the most amount of heat when using each piece in the wood and are less likely to require frequent refills.

Optimize with a Chimney Extension

An extension of the chimney on your outdoor boiler can prove to be a great improvement on their efficiency. This is because by extending the chimney, airflow is slowed therefore heat stays longer inside the boiler warming your home. Visit our store to choose a chimney extension and start saving wood and increasing heat emitted to the room.

Upgrade Your Blower Fan

It is for this reason that a dependable blower fan is one that keeps delivering clean air and at the same time ensures optimum combustion. Fans of the blower, nevertheless, get worn out with time and possibly lose their efficiency after five years. If you are experiencing a drop in your boiler’s efficiency, it is high time you replaced the blower fan.

It is also wise to have a spare blower fan ready—because, sure as night follows day, one is going to fail within the first 10-20 years of the furnace’s operation. You can find our range of blower fans here.

Cover Your Wood Pile

Another disadvantage of using wooden material is that when it is exposed, it gets to accumulate moisture, this results in poor combustion. Moisture bearing timber or timber that has snow accumulated on it tend to burn longer as most of the produced heat is used in helping get rid of moisture in the home.

Cap your woodpile with a tarp to prevent rain, snow or frost from penetrating but leave the sides open for proper supply of air. This one act alone will dry your firewood and help your outside boiler work less and heat more efficiently reducing the overall usage of wood and therefore, your costs.

Regularly Clean Out Ash and Creosote Build-Up

Creosote and ash buildup occurs in the inside of the boiler and it hinders heat transfer and also makes your boiler work harder. As the creosote builds up on your boiler’s walls, you lose the ability to transfer that heat to your water jacket, thus losing heat and firewood.

The best way to deal with and control accumulation of creosote and improve the efficiency of your outdoor wood burning boiler is by throwing into the fire a creosote remover canister, once a week. This canister safely burns to ash, turning tacky, tar like creosote into brushable ash and eliminates the need for further build up without needing to measure up or make a mess. The ease of use of the canister makes it a practical solution to ensure continuous high performance by your boiler.

Although I found the creosote remover canister to be a thing of great efficiency, then comes the importance of chimney cleaning. To get the best results it is recommended that one clean the chimney, heat exchange tubes, and deflector plate regularly. In our Cleaning Supplies and Tools section you will find brushes and tools necessary to clean your belongings

Conclusion

To help you get the most out of your outdoor boiler, we offer FREE technical support, videos, maintenance tips, and design services. Our dedicated technical team from Outdoor Boiler is ready to assist with all things related to wood boilers.

Contact us at (231) 861-8200 or message us at support@outdoorboiler.com.
For any questions or personalized advice, reach out to our knowledgeable team. We prioritize what matters most to you—keeping your family warm and saving money!