Can You Burn Coal In A Wood Fireplace Insert

Inadequate combustion of fuel is bad for both you and your stove.

Can you burn coal in a wood fireplace insert.

You can t burn coal in just any fireplace. We also carry some pellet inserts. We recommend that you allow us to install a stainless steel liner through the chimney to directly hook up your new coal or wood burning fireplace insert. Keep coal supplied with fresh oxygen use a small opening cast iron gate in front of the coal fireplace.

Most stoves and inserts that burn coal should be able to burn firewood. If you use coal inside a wood burning stove then it won t burn properly due to incomplete combustion. The epa certified non catalytic wood stoves inserts have features that enable them to burn wood more efficiently to which coal stoves and inserts will not be able to replicate. Because coal burns so much hotter a masonry fireplace built to burn coal could also handle a wood fire but the wood has to be cut into very small pieces and you ll need to feed those little logs to it almost constantly to keep a fire going.

Now it s time for the bad news. Trying to put coal into a wood fireplace insert or wood burning stove will lead to problems very quickly. If you have a working rumford style coal fireplace and the right fixtures you re set. Our fireplace inserts can be coal or wood burning stoves without legs.

Fuel that doesn t burn properly will produce more smoke as a result.