EPA offers tips smarter and clean in the winter season to burn

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02/01/2018

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BOSTON - EPA has tips for the new owners of England who heat their homes with wood stoves, fireplaces or boiler.

Wood smoke contains a mixture of fine particles and toxic gases that can harm your health. Penalties for environmental pollution is unhealthy indoors or outdoors, especially for children, the elderly and people with heart disease, lung disease, such as asthma suffering to breathe. Exposure to fine particles was taken to heart attacks, arrhythmias, heart failure and stroke in people with heart disease in combination, and also increase susceptibility to respiratory infections.

is used independently of the type of furnace, it is not to smoke in your home smell or smoke coming from the chimney, except during takeoff.

Here are some tips for wood burning to follow:

• The change to a heater EPO (wood or pellet stove, fireplace insert, water heaters or circulation) certificate or a gas heater. that about 13 million households, or around the country some 250,000 Hydronic heaters and wood stoves 8.5 million estimated. About 57 percent of the wood stoves, the oldest and most inefficient devices.
• Split and soft outdoor season for at least 6 months and wood for 12 months before shooting. dry wood produces more heat and thus can result in significant savings in winter. Wood burns best when the moisture content is less than 20 percent. cheap meters to test the moisture content in hardware stores and online.
• Never burn painted or pressure treated wood, driftwood in the sea, with wood glue (such as wood), household wastes, waste plastics, cardboard or foam. These toxic products emit smoke when burned.
• With a professional service every year, your wood stove or a certified home - not just rely on a carbon monoxide alarm.
• A fire with newspaper and dry kindling or has a professional investment lightweight natural gas or propane is lying in your fireplace.
• Do not let the burning fire - air pollution increased and does not heat.
• Reduce your heating needs in general and heating costs, improving insulation; Caulking around windows, doors and pipes to seal air gaps; and adding weather stripping on doors and windows.

More information about the meaning in the right way to burn the correct timber on the right side of the wood stove, go to the website of Save the EPA Wise www.epa.gov/burnwise .

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02/01/2018

Contact information:

BOSTON - EPA has tips for the new owners of England who heat their homes with wood stoves, fireplaces or boiler.

Wood smoke contains a mixture of fine particles and toxic gases that can harm your health. Penalties for environmental pollution is unhealthy indoors or outdoors, especially for children, the elderly and people with heart disease, lung disease, such as asthma suffering to breathe. Exposure to fine particles was taken to heart attacks, arrhythmias, heart failure and stroke in people with heart disease in combination, and also increase susceptibility to respiratory infections.

is used independently of the type of furnace, it is not to smoke in your home smell or smoke coming from the chimney, except during takeoff.

Here are some tips for wood burning to follow:

• The change to a heater EPO (wood or pellet stove, fireplace insert, water heaters or circulation) certificate or a gas heater. that about 13 million households, or around the country some 250,000 Hydronic heaters and wood stoves 8.5 million estimated. About 57 percent of the wood stoves, the oldest and most inefficient devices.
• Split and soft outdoor season for at least 6 months and wood for 12 months before shooting. dry wood produces more heat and thus can result in significant savings in winter. Wood burns best when the moisture content is less than 20 percent. cheap meters to test the moisture content in hardware stores and online.
• Never burn painted or pressure treated wood, driftwood in the sea, with wood glue (such as wood), household wastes, waste plastics, cardboard or foam. These toxic products emit smoke when burned.
• With a professional service every year, your wood stove or a certified home - not just rely on a carbon monoxide alarm.
• A fire with newspaper and dry kindling or has a professional investment lightweight natural gas or propane is lying in your fireplace.
• Do not let the burning fire - air pollution increased and does not heat.
• Reduce your heating needs in general and heating costs, improving insulation; Caulking around windows, doors and pipes to seal air gaps; and adding weather stripping on doors and windows.

More information about the meaning in the right way to burn the correct timber on the right side of the wood stove, go to the website of Save the EPA Wise www.epa.gov/burnwise .

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