okay I wanted to do a little video on EPA wood-burning stoves those that have a secondary burn to them which most new stoves are like this but it they they don't operate like conventional older stoves the thing is they don't let the fire get as much air so they end up building a large bed of coals as you can see in mine right here and the more wood you put in the larger this pile of coals will get to the point where it actually makes it less efficient even though coals are very hot they weren't they don't transfer heat through these walls like fire does so what's what I'm having a problem with is a big bed of coals and it doesn't want to produce as much heat as if there weren't a large bed of coals so what I have found and I belong to a fire woodcutters Facebook page that we we talked about it on there and what the conclusion was is whenever you go to put more wood in you have to pull all the coals to the front of the fire every time or you'll get a really really large bed of coals towards the back and you could spread them out like this but it's still I can't feel a ton of heat coming off of here right now once you stir them up but you end up with real large coals like this piece here and this piece said you got it rake them all towards the front whenever and go to put more wood in which kind of sucks because when you rake them all towards the front you end up getting a ton of heat like right in your face but when you do this this brings all the coals to the front where it will get the majority of the air most most knitter stoves like this the air comes down in from the top and goes and circles around the back and also there are two little holes that let air in right there that will also help burn up the coals in the front because it lets extra air in I have been testing this Reno rake the coals to the front two days now and it works I haven't had a large buildup of coals it was in 20s was in the 20s last week and it's still in the 20s but was in the 20s last week and I couldn't get this thing to keep up with keep up with the actual temperature outside it was keeping the house 70 about 71 the wife likes it like 73 the whole family does so I just kept feeding in logs and feeding it logs and feeding it logs not doing anything with the ashes and then that's when you know I had a bed of ashes that was that high and I ended up digging some of the ashes out and putting them in the ash bucket some of the coals and ashes to get it to burn better once I did that it was able to keep up you know maintain 73 degrees without any issues but when you get that big bed of coals it just it just won't it won't it doesn't work as well it's not as efficient so that's what I figured out a lot of the guys online were saying the same thing that you know the bed of coals makes it less efficient but it'll keep a bed of coals for like days but you have to rake them towards the front of the thing so it can get the downdraft air like you can see it right now right where these two holes are it's you know really really bright and then as that burns down it'll let the air go towards the back of the drought downdraft there go towards the back of fire and this is the most efficient way to burn the wood Napoleon which makes us so just packing all the wood is before in the back as you can as high as you can shout shutting the door and leaving it go until you know it's down to a bed of coals which is pretty much what we do but they never say to rake all the coals forward and that's one really important thing that you have to do so I hope this video helps you this is my second year with the with a EPA certified wood furnace and they are a challenge compared to compared to an old-fashioned conventional wood furnace they're finicky they're harder to use they don't put out as much heat but they're much more efficient they don't put out heart that I mean there's like almost no smoke out of this you get some ribbon you get a fire going but once you have a bed of coals established and a fire going you know you you probably won't see hardly anything coming out of the chimney maybe I'll go outside and show you what it looks like you know now that I just put wood in it'll probably be smoking a little bit but okay little shot of the stovepipe like I said I just I just put the wood in so that's about the most smoke you'll get once it is up and running and that's just because I just put wood in normally whenever after ten minutes you won't see any smoke coming out in there at all you won't even be able to tell that there's a fire going so I'm sorry so that's what it looks like once what's getting some you know when it was starting to go very clean and efficient very efficient very uh I don't know clean for the environment since it reburn z-- everything I'm happy with it it just takes some getting used to and there's some tips and tricks that you need to figure out and you'll figure out in time yourself but I hope this video helps you please 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