Stove Maintenance Tips

The summer months are intended to bring warmer temperatures, meaning that our woodburning stoves go into some sort of “hibernation”, taking a break until the nights start getting cooler again.

This is the perfect opportunity to spend some time, offering your woodburner some care and maintenance, and getting it prepped for its hard work during the winter months.

We’ve put together some stove maintenance suggestions, which might help in having a plan for ensuring your stove is ready to go:

Chimney sweeping is an essential aspect of woodburning stove maintenance. This should be done on an annual basis, by a professional chimney sweep. For any recommendations, please get in touch and we’ll point you in the right direction.

The glass on our stoves benefits from an airwash system, which ensures that it doesn’t blacken so quickly whilst your stove is burning. However, the glass will need cleaning from time to time. This is a very simple thing to do, in fact using a by-product from the stove to give a great finish! Make sure your stove is cool and hasn’t been lit prior to cleaning the glass. Then simply dip a damp cloth into the cool ash in the bottom of the stove and, using a circular motion, clean the glass, wiping it over once finished to result in some gleaming glass!

Our stoves come fitted with flat ropeseal on the lids and standard 8mm diameter ropeseal around the doors. Check that these seals are all in place and in good condition. If they need replacing, please get in touch and we can happily help with this. We have instructions for replacing the flat ropeseal on our stove lids, so we can pop these over to you too.

When the stove is cool and hasn’t been lit, check the inside of the fire chamber and clean out any debris, although due to the high efficiency of our stoves, there should be very little by-product from burning, apart from a bit of ash. Clean out the body of the cool stove using a dustpan and brush (be careful as this can be a little messy!) and dispose safely of the contents. It is also important to ensure that the vent sliders are working properly - get in touch if you need any advice in this regard. The beauty of our stoves are that they don't have any fragile fire bricks and are robust enough to withstand often harsh glamping conditions (variable weather, lots of use by guests with differing levels of woodburning stove experience!) 

Check on the outside of your stove, and use a little rapeseed oil to bring the steel back to life (you can read our blog on seasoning here). If the paint on your stove needs a bit of a refurb, you can do this using our stove care kit or contact us if your Anevay woodburning stove is in need of a full refurb and we’ll give your stove a facelift, making it look like new! We have customers returning to us many years down the road, for a bit of a revamp, and their stoves return to them looking like new!

Your fuel is an essential factor in how your woodburner performs - all of our stoves, apart from the Fintan, have been designed to burn wood only. The Fintan is our DEFRA-exempt, multi-fuel stove so it is designed to burn both wood and coal, although sales of house coal are banned as of May 2023. The wood that you burn should have the “Ready To Burn” certification marks on the packaging, and should have a moisture content of under 20%. Our eco fuel fits this bill in a big way, consisting of compressed sawdust and having a moisture content of 5% or less. It is a good idea to take some time in the summer to ensure that your fuel is ready for the winter months, and that you are fully stocked up on the correct fuel for your woodburner.

We love discussing all things woodburner so please do pop us a line or - if you’re in the area - pop in for a cuppa so we can flesh out the ins and outs of stoves and talk about the beauty of fire together!