Because I did it this morning and haven't forgotten it yet, I'll tell you now something I meant to mention before about wood stoves. Mine's a Jotul by the way.
I did say it never goes out but if we were away which is rare now obviously it would. But this is what I do about the ash so it doesn't have to go out. First I let it burn down to a glowing bed. Then I get the little stove shovel and divide the bed mentally into three equal sections. Then I scrape all the glowing ash or coals off the middle third and pile it on the one either side of it. Having now one third of the area with just ash I shovel that out into a metal bucket. I repeat that for each if the other two sections until all I'm left with is a thin bed of hot ash. Now I just pile on a bunch of very small thin logs, such as from she oak branches and push the door nearly shut. It all takes off pretty quickly and I can add some normal logs And no having to start from scratch.
