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Questions often asked: Firebrick: Customers who have had experience with various heating appliances lined with firebrick voice concerns about constant cracking and replacing. Having owned and sold Heatmors since 19941 have yet to change or sell a replacement brick. Heatmors advanced firebox design leave the firebrick recessed and protected. Allowing a buildup of ash along the sides offers even more protection. The use of firebrick greatly increases efficiency and quickly allows the firebox to reach temperature (in excess of 1000 degrees) whereby smoke begins to burn and is not emitted. Auger: The most advanced method of ash removal is with the use of an auger. This allows for the quick, clean, easy removal of fine ash and continuous operation of your Heatmor. No dusty, messy shoveling involved. Contrary to the claims of some of our competitors common nails will pass through the grates and will easily be removed along with the ash. Forced air draft: Wood as a fuel contains water, creosote and charcoal. For wood to burn at a very high efficiency level the proper amount of oxygen, temperature and draft are needed. The use of combustion fans creates a very high firebox and stack temperature by burning the creosote and charcoal to levels up to 97%. When desired water temperature is achieved the fans shut off and the wood ceases burning until the next cycle resulting in burning much less wood. If you had 97% combustion efficiency and a 70% heating efficiency then you would have 68% net efficiency. This is what you might expect with a fairly hot clean burning fire. However, if you had 90% combustion efficiency and a 50% heating efficiency, then you would have 45% net efficiency. This is what you might expect with a smoky slow burning fire. Besides the decrease in efficiency, you would also have the smoke to contend with. Stainless Steel or Boiler Plate? Heatmor uses Heavy Gauge 409 Stainless Steel in manufacturing our Outdoor Burning Furnaces. Heatmor has chosen 409 stainless to prevent Stress Corrosion Cracking and because it has the best heat transfer of the stainless steel groups. We at Best-Way have stoves in operation for excess of 10 years and going strong. Mild Steel + Water + Oxygen = Corrosion Boiler Plate will corrode. We recently replaced a mild steel stove with a Heatmor after only 7 years of operation. It had started leaking after 5 years. Best-Way Wood Heat, Inc. (207) 685-3900 Heatmor Outdoor Wood Stoves |